Manager, Events, CIB at Standard Bank Group

About the Job

Job Description

• Provide strategic event marketing guidance to business and marketing managers, ensuring events deliver against business objectives, are benchmarked against global best practice and deliver the desired brand experience. Provide an in depth understanding of marketing strategies and business requirements to ensure effective utilisation of events. Lead and empower the event marketing team to plan and execute events in line with business marketing strategies
• Ensure communication of eventing, compliance and procurement guidelines and adherence thereof. Determine and implement measurement and evaluation criteria (qualitative and quantitative) according to the business unit objectives. Ensure procurement of best of breed suppliers with international experience and accessibility across geographies to manage and execute events.
• Ensure that events deliver against the brand DNA and branding guidelines. Identify enhancements & pro-actively drive new approaches to events planning and management.
• Formulate new ideas and change of focus around existing events. Maintain collaborative working relationships with business, marketing and internal and external service providers Formulate an in depth understanding of business and marketing strategy and business requirements and translate those into effective strategic eventing plans. Proactively advise marketing managers on eventing. Ensure team is proactively utilising events to meet stakeholders requirements by providing a centralised, professional and effective event marketing and management and planning service.
• Investigate methods of improving management, quality and standard of events by monitoring national and global trends and ideas. Manage and maintain event marketing calendar.
• Use leadership abilities to build a sustainable business and an invigorated team that drives value to all stakeholders.

Qualification

• Marketing degree or related

Experience

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in conferencing and events marketing and management.
• Project management experience.
• Understanding of the corporate and investment banking environment would be advantageous.
• International events management experience would be advantageous.

Additional Information
Behavioral Competencies:

• Adopting Practical Approaches
• Checking Details
• Conveying Self-Confidence
• Embracing Change
• Exploring Possibilities
• Generating Ideas
• Interacting with People
• Managing Tasks
• Meeting Timescales
• Showing Composure
• Taking Action
• Team Working

Technical Competencies:

• Developing Marketing Insights
• Measuring Marketing and Communication
• Project Management (Project Mgmt)