Events Specialist

We have an exciting new opportunity for an Events Specialist to join our AEM Marketing team. Based in Sydney this role will report to the Senior Manager, Events & Sponsorships Lead, AEM and will focus on delivering physical and virtual customer events designed to generate leads and strengthen relationships with existing customers. You will ensure TR events are professionally executed on time, meet budget and are best in class. Events will take place in Australia, and you may occasionally be required to coordinate details for events and/or travel to New Zealand, Asia or the Middle East.

**About the Role**

In this opportunity as Events Specialist, you will:

- Work with the Events and Sponsorships Lead to roll out a program of best-in-class events and sponsorship activations across the Asia & Emerging Markets region.
- Source venues and liaise with all event vendors to finalize event details.
- Manage invitation and RSVP lists using software, including Eloqua and Salesforce.
- Contract and maximize opportunities across various sponsorship events.
- Manage budgets and process payments for events.
- Manage events on the day (some travel may be required).
- Post-event evaluation and reporting.
- Support any required ad hoc event-related tasks.

**About You**

You’re a fit for the role of Events Management Specialist if your background includes:

- 3+ years of events experience in a corporate marketing environment.
- Experience in Salesforce and Eloqua or equivalent CRM and marketing automation system preferred, not mandatory.
- The ability to multi-task, prioritise workload, adapt to changing priorities, work independently, and complete tasks under time pressure with excellent attention to detail.
- Learning and mastering any software platforms for event planning and marketing of events.
- Experience working with internal and external stakeholders.

**What’s in it For You?**

You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

- ** Hybrid Work Model**: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
- ** Culture**: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.
- ** Wellbeing**: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
- ** Learning & Development**: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.
- ** Social Impact**: Nine employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.
- ** Purpose Driven Work**: We have a superpower that we’ve never talked about with as much pride as we should - we are one of the only companies on the planet that helps its customers pursue justice, truth and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

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Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services - Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

**Accessibility**

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color,