Marketing Events Specialist

MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company; Ipswich; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the shipping industry is looking for an Events Specialist to join their growing marketing team. This role involves creating and managing an innovative annual events program, ensuring alignment with commercial objectives, and delivering experiences for major UK clients. The position provides a great opportunity for professional growth in a dynamic and supportive environment.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in delivering various events from planning to execution.
• Understanding of health and safety procedures for events.
• Ability to measure ROI and provide analytic feedback.

Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of the events program from planning to execution.
• Manage budget and ensure events meet company branding standards.
• Measure and report on effectiveness of events, including tracking ROI.

Skills

Stakeholder Management

Event Planning

Organizational Skills

Communication

Education

Event Management Qualification

Job description

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We are looking for a passionate events specialist looking to develop their career within a growing and ambitions marketing team, working for an industry leader. This extended 16-month maternity cover opportunity is a great chance to develop your skills in an in-house environment, working for the UK office of a global company.

Working within a thriving marketing team, you’ll be responsible for leading the delivery of our annual events programme, adding your own creative flair to the execution of trade shows, hospitality, executive client entertainment, industry events, client-facing events and our own employee engagement events.

Customers you’ll be designing experiences for include some of the UK’s largest retailers, car manufacturers and food and beverage companies.

If successful in the role, you’ll be supporting the wider Customer Experience and Marketing team to achieve great things together.

Skills and experience we’re looking for

We’d like you to bring an understanding of the varying requirements of different styles of events, along with experience in recording return on investment metrics and means of tracking feedback.

A team player, your specialist events knowledge will complement our multichannel marketing department to collaboratively achieve business objectives.

We encourage curiosity, autonomy, and feedback within marketing on how we can work better for our customers and ourselves against the needs of the business and industry demands.

Some of the key skills and characteristics we’re looking for include:

Experience in delivering a broad spectrum of events, including exhibitions, from briefing through to on-site execution (or an events related qualification)

Understanding of events health and safety procedures and documentation

Understanding of commercial and business priorities and ensure events and merchandise approaches are aligned to these

Excellent organisational skills

Advanced communications and stakeholder management skills – able to adapt to different audiences

What you can expect from the role

In this role you’ll contribute strategic thinking and expertise to ensure all of our events reflectour company values and deliver our targeted messaging and commercial objectives. With the support of your line manager, you’ll provide regular progress reports to ourinternal stakeholders and will strive to develop relationships across the business to promote cross-departmental collaboration.

While a UK based role, the successful candidate will have the opportunity to work closely as part of our regional European network of marketing experts and global marketing team base in our Geneva HQ. Representing the UK as a leading agency for marketing is a key responsibility of this role, along with the below:

Core responsibilities for this role are:

With support from your line manager, create and maintain an overarching plan for Events and Merchandise

Connect customers with our brand through live experiences and branded merchandise.

Organise detail-orientated events from inception through to post-event measurement

Manage hospitality opportunities for both internal and external audiences

Facilitate online events where required

Source MSC branded merchandise and manage stock levels

Harness cross-sale opportunities in line with commercial objectives

Ensure all events and merchandise reflect our brand values and adhere to MSC’s global brand standards

Communicate qualified leads from events to internal stakeholders

Manage spend against project and annual budget for merchandise and events

Measure and report on effectiveness of events and merchandise (including ROI analysis) and make recommendations for improvement

If you feel this is the next step in your career, please apply now.