Event Operations Specialist

**About the Role**:
**Grade Level (for internal use)**: 08
**The Impact**: As a member of the Marketing Department, you will provide event operational support for S&P Global live and virtual events to a worldwide audience of customers and prospects. You will highlight the breadth of our brand, executing events that feature our essential intelligence while providing the best-in-class attendee experience.

**The Team**: The Global Event Operations team supports the Marketing Team as they strive to positively influence pipeline, drive client engagement, and build the brand through creative marketing programs, differentiated channel management, and operational excellence on achieving their sales, renewal, and retention goals. We are a highly-collaborative, creative, dynamic, groundbreaking global team who work together on key initiatives to drive program content.

**Responsibilities**: We are seeking a Specialist, Event Operations to support a portfolio of global events, primarily focusing on covering Asia Pacific. The role will see you assist marketers and the commercial sales teams by coordinating logistics for our large portfolio of events. You will support the global events team by updating our internal event management system and keeping the event report system updated.

**Execute third-party tradeshows and hosted conferences**: Includes site selection, online and offline registration, stakeholder and attendee communications, audio visual, banqueting, technology, etc.

Source, negotiate, and manage contracts and vendors; manage timely payments to venues and vendors while complying with internal processes

Manage logistics at third-party events, or hosted events, ensuring our brand is represented and maximizing lead generation.

Manage to source of promotional items and event items and inventory and shipping of such

Keep track of event equipment and marketing asset inventory and manage the coordination between our team and vendor.

Manage the event registration process by using the available systems to build registration websites and communicate with registrants.

Support the marketing team in the creation of booth equipment, promotional items, and collateral.

Effectively communicate with on-site staff and key stakeholders pre and post-events.

Ensure customer expectations are at the center of the events we produce.

Be creative and innovative in optimizing events to achieve the best commercial results possible

Minimum and Preferred Education

Bachelor Degree.

Minimum and Preferred Experience/Skills

2-4 years of event planning experience preferred

Mild to moderate travel, but the ability to do so if required

Working knowledge of event registration system preferred

Excellent oral and written communication skills and strong interpersonal skills

Must be able to manage multiple events in a fast-paced environment

Proven administrative, organizational, and problem solving skills

Ability to work independently and within a team environment

Open to experiments and new ideas

Relentless and hardworking

Fun Energetic Passionate

Mandarin and/or Japanese language skills are desirable

Flexibility to travel 2-3 times per year for roadshows and events

**Additional Preferred Qualifications**:
Fluent knowledge and use of Cvent Registration System

Prior experience or familiarity with Asia Pacific business culture and practices is a plus

About S&P Global Market Intelligence

At S&P Global Market Intelligence, a division of S&P Global we understand the importance of accurate, deep and insightful information. Our team of experts delivers unrivaled insights and leading data and technology solutions, partnering with customers to expand their perspective, operate with confidence, and make decisions with conviction.

What's In It For You?

**Our Purpose**:
Progress is not a self-starter. It requires a catalyst to be set in motion. Information, imagination, people, technology-the right combination can unlock possibility and change the world.

Our world is in transition and getting more complex by the day. We push past expected observations and seek out new levels of understanding so that we can help companies, governments and individuals make an impact on tomorrow. At S&P Global we transform data into Essential Intelligence, pinpointing risks and opening possibilities. We Accelerate Progress.

**Our People**:
We're more than 35,000 strong worldwide—so we're able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective. Our team is driven by curiosity and a shared belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all.

**Our Values**:
Integrity, Discovery, Partnership

At S&P Global, we focus on Powering Global Markets. Throughout our history, the world's leading organizations have relied on us for the Essential Intelligence they need to make confident decisions about the road ahead. We start with a foundation of integrity in all we do, bring a spirit of discovery to our work,