Company Description
Informa Markets is one of Informa's B2B Markets and Digital Services divisions. We are a highly international business, with a significant presence in the US, Brazil, the Middle East, India and China.
We work in over a dozen growing, specialist and international markets, with hundreds of leading brands across Health & Nutrition, Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals, Aviation, Beauty & Aesthetics, Infrastructure & Construction, Agriculture and Fashion.
Informa Markets delivers smart events, including must-attend trade-focused exhibitions, specialist content, specialist data and targeted digital services, including lead and demand generation solutions powered by our depth of first-party customer data.
Our live products and digital platforms and services enable buyers, sellers and decision makers in specialist markets to meet, discover and showcase new products and do business.
Job Description
The Senior Marketing Manager will be responsible for the strategizing, planning, development and implementation of marketing activities and campaigns for assigned events, spanning trade shows, conferences and awards programs. The key pillars of the role will involve forging partnerships, audience development, marketing campaign KPIs and people management skills. You will be a proactive individual with strong communication and project management skills.
PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Lead the planning and implementation of an integrated customer-focused marketing strategy, optimise all digital channels with demonstrated ability in new marketing / event tech and social media
- Design and execute brand communications strategies and marketing plans for the events, as well as result-driven marketing promotions campaigns
- Track budgets and investments, ensuring financials are managed in an effective manner with regular evaluation of effectiveness and performance metrics
- Manage content, social media, creative and marketing agencies, including management of registration and PR vendors
- Manage partnerships with trade media and partners to extend promotional reach
- Implement a clear communication plan to promote the company's sustainability efforts and educate stakeholders about the impact of event initiatives
- Support and provide guidance to marketing team
- Collaborate with other Informa Markets offices to meet event deliverables for JV projects
- Develop agile strategies to enhance audience development through effective marketing and client/partner engagement initiatives
- Work closely with key stakeholders to gather audience and commercial insights, develop a data driven POV on what motivates our buyers, and execute effective, measurable marketing campaigns
Qualifications
Candidate must possess at least Bachelor’s Degree/Professional Degree in Marketing or equivalent
• At least 10 years of working experience preferably in events or exhibitions industry
• Required skills: Digital Marketing, B2B Marketing, Events Marketing, Partnership Management
• Experience in tradeshow marketing will be advantageous
*longer working hours to be committed leading up to event and during event trading days
Top Skills
What We Do
Informa is a leading international intelligence, events and scholarly research group. We're here to champion the specialist, connecting people with knowledge to help them learn more, know more and do more.
We're a FTSE 100 company with 10,000 colleagues working in over 30 countries and a presence in all major regions, including North America, South America, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Informa has five business divisions: Informa Markets, Informa Connect, Informa Tech, Informa Intelligence and Taylor & Francis.
We are home to hundreds of leading brands, serving businesses and professionals who work in any one of dozens of specialist markets through brands such as Citeline, Arab Health, CPhI and EBD Group in Pharma, Pharma Ingredients and Biotech; SuperReturn, EPFR and FBX in Finance; Lloyd's List in Maritime; New Hope and Natural Products Expo in Health & Nutrition; Routledge, CRC Press and F1000 Research in Academic Publishing; Black Hat in Cybersecurity; AI Summit in Artificial Intelligence; and many more.