Event Marketing Specialist recruitment
Part of the Investment Bank’s Marketing Communications department, Event Marketing (EM) is one of the most powerful tools available to our firm to enhance our partnership with clients and build new business opportunities. Our conferences, events and roadshows provide unrivalled opportunities for relationship building and help differentiate UBS's thought leadership within the investment banking industry.
EM supports the Investment Bank (Fixed Income Currencies Commodities – FICC, Equities – EQ, Securities, and Investment Banking Department – IBD) in the planning and delivery of these products. We also collaborate with Wealth Management and Global Asset Management on a large number of cross-business event marketing activities.
The main objective will be to deliver a wide range of EM projects (Conferences, Client Events and Corporate roadshows,) for the IB’s business areas in SE Asia, ensuring coherence and consistency of our brand when communicating the firm’s key messages. The projects will take place in Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand.
Key tasks and responsibilities include:
- Build strong relationships with SE Asia business and marketers, understanding their objectives and providing both strategic and creative event marketing solutions to best target their clients.
- Understand the complexity of the SE Asian region with regard to local regulations for each country where it impacts EM processes and procedures.
- Work in close collaboration with both internal and external agencies on the production and implementation of materials surrounding conferences and clients events e.g. client invitations, e-marketing, web, conference environments, decor, entertainment etc.
- Work in close collaboration with other Marcomms teams (sponsorship, advertising, branding, media relations), to optimize the impact of event led activity and deliver integrated solutions to our internal clients.
- Project lead conferences, seminars, client events, corporate roadshows and senior management internal meetings taking place in the SE Asia.
- Fully utilize and update all required IT systems with relevant SE Asia information – Event Portal, global and regional calendars for information reporting etc
Our ideal candidate will have the following requisites:
- Degree holder or equivalent
- Previous Investment Banking experience a plus but not essential
- At least 4 to 5 years of event management/marketing experience in SE Asia
- Native English (verbal and written) is critical, fluency in Mandarin (reading and writing) a plus
- Ability to travel when necessary
- Able to appreciate and work easily with regional variance and cultural differences
- Strong strategic, planning, organizational and communication skills
- Comfortable with the creative design processes – managing from concept through to production
- Needs to be fully conversant with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and Powerpoint)
- Knowledge in applications such as ACCESS, Silverpop and other web based tools
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