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S&P Global Ratings
Location: India or Philippines
The Team: The Ratings Global Event Marketing team is responsible for the strategy, management, and execution of close to 500 events annually including webinars, hosted events, and 3rd party event sponsorships. Effective communication, cooperation, and mutual support help achieve common goals. Values that underpin success includes professionalism, respect, open-mindedness, creativity, adaptability, and a strong commitment to delivering outstanding experiences for our customers.
The Impact: As the Event Marketing Manager, you will provide meeting and event expertise and direction, working with all S&P Ratings internal stakeholders (Analytical, Commercial and Market Outreach) throughout the APAC region on their marketing initiatives.
Your job is to work closely with other meeting planners (primary: Singapore/Hong Kong/APAC; secondary: globally) and marketing colleagues on making S&P Ratings’ events top-of-class in the financial sector.
What’s in it for you: S&P Ratings manages over 500 hosted events, sponsorships and webinars each year, varying in size from 30 – 600 people and scope of ½ day to three-day meetings. You will be looked to for your expertise in the meetings industry to direct client on virtual platforms, locations, logistics, budgets, strategy, communications, and creativity.
Responsibilities:
Responsible for hosted events (virtual and in-person), webinars and 3rd Party Events. Initially, you will work with Event Marketing colleagues to secure systems trainings and become well-versed in our procedures, eventually assigned to specific internal stakeholders and understanding the business will help you to formulate the event execution plan.
Lead and run events from start to finish throughout APAC and some global involvement.
Participate and coordinate with external/internal parties for industry sponsorships.
Project manage APAC roadshows with other internal stakeholders.
Speakers (internal & external) prep and training and ensuring successful execution.
Communication Plans: Review and contribute to correspondence (emails, registrations, social and digital media) with internal stakeholders, external customers, and guest speakers. Pull attendee registration lists (SalesForce & Pardot) for invitations. Review and contribute to all communication to meeting invitees. Provide project parameters for completion of support assignments. Conduct pre-conference and post-conference meetings with vendors.
Reporting: Providing post-event metrics and KPIs to show value and/or direction on event strategy.
Sourcing: Meetings/events/receptions with hoteliers, food service directors, restaurants, ground operators, décor & entertainment companies, promotional items, AV & Production companies.
Contracts: Review and negotiate contracts for all vendors (hotel, restaurant, AV, 3rd party associations, etc.). Provide outline and explanation to host of all contractual items including any potential cancellations.
Manage within approved event budgets and negotiate the best value for Ratings across all events.
Ensure compliance with insurance, legal, health and safety obligations.
Regular administrative duties for the events team - track, manage events calendar, pipeline and budget tracker.
What We’re Looking For:
An S&P Global employee at this level would typically have 3-5 years of progressive experience in meeting/event planning.
Experience with Virtual and In-Person event execution.
Experience working with sponsors and/or client relationships and fulfilment.
A good understanding of financial markets and business environment including implications to S&P’s analytical products and services is a plus. Experience or an interest in Sustainable Finance is desirable.
Experience with any of the following platforms: Pardot, On24, Cvent, SalesForce or similar experience (i.e. Eloqua or Marketo instead of Pardot).
Must be able to work effectively and collaboratively in a team oriented, global, and multi-cultural environment.
The ideal candidate has a passion for events, is highly organized, has a sense of urgency.
Strong customer service focus.
Bachelor’s degree preferred, or relevant experience as outlined above.
Some travel will be required from time to time in throughout the region.
About S&P Global Ratings
At S&P Global Ratings, our analyst-driven credit ratings, research, and sustainable finance opinions provide critical insights that are essential to translating complexity into clarity so market participants can uncover opportunities and make decisions with conviction. By bringing transparency to the market through high-quality independent opinions on creditworthiness, we enable growth across a wide variety of organizations, including businesses, governments, and institutions.
S&P Global Ratings is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI). S&P Global is the world’s foremost provider of credit ratings, benchmarks, analytics and workflow solutions in the global capital, commodity and automotive markets. With every one of our offerings, we help many of the world’s leading organizations navigate the economic landscape so they can plan for tomorrow, today.
For more information, visit www.spglobal.com/ratings
What’s In It For You?
Our Purpose:
Progress is not a self-starter. It requires a catalyst to be set in motion. Information, imagination, people, technology–the right combination can unlock possibility and change the world.
Our world is in transition and getting more complex by the day. We push past expected observations and seek out new levels of understanding so that we can help companies, governments and individuals make an impact on tomorrow. At S&P Global we transform data into Essential Intelligence®, pinpointing risks and opening possibilities. We Accelerate Progress.
Our People:
We're more than 35,000 strong worldwide—so we're able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective. Our team is driven by curiosity and a shared belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all.
From finding new ways to measure sustainability to analyzing energy transition across the supply chain to building workflow solutions that make it easy to tap into insight and apply it. We are changing the way people see things and empowering them to make an impact on the world we live in. We’re committed to a more equitable future and to helping our customers find new, sustainable ways of doing business. We’re constantly seeking new solutions that have progress in mind. Join us and help create the critical insights that truly make a difference.
Our Values:
Integrity, Discovery, Partnership
At S&P Global, we focus on Powering Global Markets. Throughout our history, the world's leading organizations have relied on us for the Essential Intelligence they need to make confident decisions about the road ahead. We start with a foundation of integrity in all we do, bring a spirit of discovery to our work, and collaborate in close partnership with each other and our customers to achieve shared goals.
Benefits:
We take care of you, so you can take care of business. We care about our people. That’s why we provide everything you—and your career—need to thrive at S&P Global.
Our benefits include:
Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.
Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.
Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.
Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.
Family Friendly Perks: It’s not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones, too, with some best-in class benefits for families.
Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awards—small perks can make a big difference.
For more information on benefits by country visit: https://spgbenefits.com/benefit-summaries
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at S&P Global:
At S&P Global, we believe diversity fuels creative insights, equity unlocks opportunity, and inclusion drives growth and innovation – Powering Global Markets. Our commitment centers on our global workforce, ensuring that our people are empowered to bring their whole selves to work. It doesn’t stop there, we strive to better reflect and serve the communities in which we live and work, and advocate for greater opportunity for all.
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