Events Marketing Specialist - Reuters

Events Marketing Specialist - Reuters

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Reuters News Agency is seeking an Event Marketing Specialist to join our Growth Marketing team in London. This exciting opportunity is ideal for a highly organized and detail-oriented individual with a passion for delivering exceptional events and experiences. The role focuses on planning, coordinating, and executing a wide range of events, including conferences, webinars, and networking receptions, to engage and inform News Media audiences globally.

The Event Marketing Specialist is responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing events, conferences, and webinars that meet the organization's goals and objectives. This role requires a high level of attention to detail, excellent communication and project management skills.

You will work closely with internal teams to design and deliver events that meet our business objectives, enhance our brand reputation, and provide value to our attendees, while ensuring seamless execution and attention to detail throughout the event planning process.

As an Event Marketing Specialist at Thomson Reuters, you will:

• Research and plan events, managing budgets and timelines, and securing venues and vendors
• Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders, including speakers and attendees
• Develop and distribute event marketing materials, such as invitations, programs, and promotional materials.
• Manage event registration, RSVPs, and attendee communication.
• Arrange logistics, such as catering and audio-visual equipment, and manage event setup and breakdown
• Develop and manage project plans, identifying and mitigating risks, and evaluating event success
• Build and maintain relationships with stakeholders, managing expectations, and communicating event details
• Oversee event execution, troubleshooting issues, and ensuring evaluation and feedback mechanisms are in place.

To be our Event Marketing Specialist you will likely have:

• 2+ years of experience in event planning, coordination, or management.
• Experience with event software, such as event management platforms, registration tools, and marketing automation systems such as Splash, Hub Spot, Eloqua and Cvent.
• Excellent communication, project management, and problem-solving skills.
• Attention to detail and ability to multitask and strong organizational and time management skills.
• Knowledge of event marketing and promotion strategies.
• Communication and research and analytical skills are essential, along with an entrepreneurial flair and a target-driven mindset.
• Familiarity with Salesforce, Microsoft Office, including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.

You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

• Hybrid Work Model: We've adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected
• Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.
• Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.
• Social Impact: Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.
• Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we've never talked about with as much pride as we should - we are one of the only companies on the planet that helps its customers pursue justice, truth and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we've been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world's most global news services - Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.