Events Manager - 12mth FTC
Department: Marketing, PR & Events
Employment Type: Fixed Term - Full Time
Location: US - New York
Reporting To: Lisa Sumner
Compensation: $100,000 - $120,000 / year
Description
As an Events Manager at CFC, you'll be a critical member of our award-winning marketing team, helping to execute the marketing strategy promoting CFC’s brand and product portfolio to broker audiences globally.
You will be responsible for developing, executing and participating in CFC events, partner events & tradeshows to drive awareness, consideration and preference for CFC and its products. Working with autonomy you will lead large and mid-sized events while also contributing to strategic initiatives led by senior team members.
Key Responsibilities
- Deliver high quality, interactive event experiences that generate increased broker engagement and bring the CFC mission and story to life.
- Be responsible for all facets of the event planning process, including goal setting, logistics, budgeting, communications, and project management.
- Take ownership of and lead on large and mid-sized CFC events including venue research, supplier contracts and speaker liaison.
- Manage CFC’s presence at partner events and industry tradeshows, including fulfilment of sponsorship entitlements, booth presence, and external social events.
- Participate in ideation and development and execution of events globally
- Negotiate, develop and manage effective relationships with vendors and venues.
- Partner with other marketing functions to ensure events communication plans are executed across CFC channels and are aligned with wider marketing activity.
- Be a brand ambassador for CFC internally, ensuring visual, written and verbal global brand consistency.
- Mentor junior marketers in the team.
- Measure and report on event effectiveness and return on investment, make data-driven optimisations, and present insights to stakeholders.
- Develop strong knowledge of the insurance market, broker insight and events industry.
- Build and maintain relationships stakeholders across marketing, underwriting and distribution.
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
- 5+ years’ experience in event management, preferably within a B2B intermediated environment, ideally in insurance or financial services.
- Proficiency in events and marketing platforms such as HubSpot, Google Analytics (GA), event registration systems and content management systems.
- Proven success in leading large and mid-sized events initiatives across the global.
- Strong project and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence across teams.
- Strong commercial awareness and ability to prioritise based on business impact.
- High attention to detail with excellent written and verbal communication.
- Experience working across different time zones and international teams is advantageous
