Events Specialist, Global Wealth Management (6 months Contract) recruitment
Job Description
Independently leads planning, implementation and evaluation of South Asia (Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia) and regional events as assigned, including annual events and newly initiated events.
Responsibilities
- Identify, negotiate and manage significant strategic partnerships, alliances, and relationships that support the organization's current and emerging directions
- Spot, leverage and follow up on new event opportunities
- Manage an event from engagement to fulfillment, within a limited time and within budget
- Establish and manage budgets and track spending for regional events, providing analysis and review.
- Communicate regularly with all team members and accountable to build working relationships with the Reporting manager and marketing team.
- Producing detailed proposals for events
- Handle key negotiations, liaise with external vendors/partners and internal counterparts/partners/management
- Venue identification and management, menu development, program development, management of design production of event materials/gifts, and supervision of event enrollments.
- Post event attendance, expense, feedback/learning summaries, and enhancements proposal for future events.
Requirements
- Bachelors Degree.
- 3+ years of work experience, with no less than 2 years of events management and execution experience in financial services industry, preferably private banking/wealth management, and understanding of key areas of event management (project coordination, on site management, technical expertise, etc)
- Ideal candidates are those with multinational/regional Event Company or financial institution event team background.
- Strong leadership, positive attitude, multitasking, problem anticipation/solving, communication, presentation, interpersonal, and analytical skills. Must be open and flexible to a constant changing environment.
- APR regional portfolio management experience and good understanding of financial industry/private banking business will be strong advantages.
- Good team player, motivator, committed to highest quality standards
- Interest in the general event landscape
- Excellent command of English, Cantonese, and Mandarin speaking/ reading/writing abilities is ideal.
- Software skills of Microsoft Power Point, Excel, and Word.
- Flexibility to travel
- Comfortable working with little supervision; self starter
Key annual major client events include Year Ahead Mid Year Seminars, Summer Wealth Management Program, Golf Tournaments, and sales campaign incentive trips, fund houses seminars and roadshows.
May 8, 2012
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