Sr Conferences Marketing Specialist

Gartner Inc.; Stamford (CT); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Gartner, Inc. in Stamford, CT seeks a Senior Marketing Specialist to drive paid conference registrations and revenue through multi-channel marketing.

You will execute end-to-end campaigns, optimize messaging for target segments and collaborate with conference marketing, program management, and digital teams. The role emphasizes results, accountability, and speed to market, with responsibilities spanning analytics, content strategy, email marketing, and marketing automation to convert prospects

Qualifications

• 3+ years in outbound/digital marketing with revenue responsibility.
• Strong project management and collaboration skills.
• Experience with marketing campaigns, leads, and pipeline.
• Data-driven with experience in analytics tools.

Responsibilities

• Assist in creating end-to-end marketing campaigns to drive revenue.
• Define and manage targeted campaigns for conferences.
• Coordinate with internal/external stakeholders across marketing COEs.
• Use analytics to optimize ROI and channel mix.
• Translate attendee insights into effective campaign messaging.
• Develop client-facing content strategy and messaging milestones.

Skills

Digital marketing

Project management

Campaign management

Analytics

Marketing automation

Email marketing

Content strategy

Tools

Google Analytics

Eloqua

Adobe Experience Manager

Job description

We are seeking an innovative, commercially driven Senior Marketing Specialist to assist in delivering paid conference registrations for assigned volume and revenue goals. This individual will be responsible for executing and monitoring complex marketing and digital strategies and campaigns to targeted client and prospect segments, resulting in paid self-service registrations or qualified sales leads that result in paid registrations. They will have a deep understanding of the business roles and will utilize this knowledge to develop and optimize engaging, value-based messaging and marketing approaches. This individual will work closely with the conference marketing team, conference program management, digital and other stakeholders.

The Senior Marketing Specialist is responsible for the execution of multi-channel marketing strategies to achieve or exceed commercial & strategic goals for high growth event(s) within a culture focused on results, accountability, relevance, innovation and speed to market.

What You Will Do:

• Assist the Marketing Director or Senior Marketing Manager in creating and implementing end-to-end marketing campaigns to drive audience acquisition revenue and retention
• Define, execute and manage targeted campaigns, with clear deliverables and commercial impact on one or more conferences
• Effectively manage projects involving internal & external stakeholders/partners across conference marketing and related COEs inclusive of concept design, campaign development, and campaign execution - on time and with exceptional quality
• Utilize analytical tools to inform and identify the best channel mix and utilization to achieve commercial and strategic goals and the best possible ROI on campaign spend
• Review and understand customer insights and conference wrap-ups to understand prior attendee behavior and patterns to inform campaign development
• Define and execute Client-facing associates content strategy to help them understand the conference value, aligned roles, key messages, marketing milestones, and available selling tools to engage clients and prospects
• Review, analyze and communicate weekly KPI results to inform campaign optimization and update stakeholders

What You Will Need:

• Metrics-driven and insatiably curious with a minimum of 3+ years' experience in outbound / digital marketing and direct responsibility for delivering revenue through marketing and sales channels
• Exceptional project management skills
• Knowledge and experience in marketing campaign creation, lead management, and pipeline conversion
• Data-driven and analytical; experience with Google Analytics a plus
• Great interpersonal, collaborative and communication skills
• Email marketing, with marketing automation experience such as Eloqua or similar
• Experience with fundamental principles of design
• Web content creation and content management skills; experience with Adobe Experience Manager a plus
• Left Brain + Right Brain by nature; understand data and analysis and be able to use it to calibrate campaigns and create better content/copy
• Some travel will be required

Who You Are:

• Process-driven, methodical, organized and pays strong attention to detail.
• Be able to work autonomously (i.e., high degree of self-reliance/self-starter)
• Team player with good time management skills.

Who are we?

At Gartner, Inc. (NYSE:IT), we guide the leaders who shape the world.

Our mission relies on expert analysis and bold ideas to deliver actionable, objective business and technology insights, helping enterprise leaders and their teams succeed with their mission-critical priorities.

Since our founding in 1979, we've grown to 20,000 associates globally who support over 13,000 client enterprises in ~90 countries and territories. We do important, interesting and substantive work that matters. That's why we hire associates with the intellectual curiosity, energy and drive to want to make a difference. The bar is unapologetically high. So is the impact you can have here.

What makes Gartner a great place to work?

Our vast, virtually untapped market potential offers limitless opportunities - opportunities that may not even exist right now - for you to grow professionally and flourish personally. How far you go is driven by your passion and performance.

We hire remarkable people who collaborate and win as a team. Together, our singular, unifying goal is to deliver results for our clients.

Our teams are inclusive and composed of individuals from different geographies, cultures, religions, ethnicities, races, genders, sexual orientations, abilities and generations.

We invest in great leaders who bring out the best in you and the company, enabling us to multiply our impact and results. This is why, year after year, we are recognized worldwide as a great place to work.

Gartner is the world authority on AI

At Gartner, you'll join a company at the very center of the AI revolution. Gartner has proactive, objective guidance throughout clients' AI journeys. We set the s