Event Marketing Manager

About the Role:
Grade Level (for internal use): 10
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.

Responsibilities:

1. Responsible for hosted events (virtual and in-person), webinars and 3rd Party Events.
2. Lead and run events from start to finish throughout APAC and some global involvement.
3. Participate and coordinate with external/internal parties for industry sponsorships.
4. Project manage APAC roadshows with other internal stakeholders.
5. Speakers (internal & external) prep and training and ensuring successful execution.
6. Review and contribute to correspondence (emails, registrations, social and digital media) with internal stakeholders, external customers, and guest speakers.
7. Providing post-event metrics and KPIs to show value and/or direction on event strategy.
8. Review and negotiate contracts for all vendors (hotel, restaurant, AV, 3rd party associations, etc.).
9. Manage within approved event budgets and negotiate the best value for Ratings across all events.
10. Ensure compliance with insurance, legal, health and safety obligations.
11. 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

Equal Opportunity Employer:
S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other status protected by law. Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment.