Senior Events Manager

Our Asian Legal Business (ALB) is looking for a Senior Events Manager / Director to lead the awards segment and is responsible of the overall logistics and operations across the events function. This is a senior role and you must bring leadership, growth mindset, sharp business acumen and long term strategy for the group.

This position can be based in Singapore or Hong Kong.

**About the Role**

As the Senior Events Manager / Director, your duties include:

- Managing the events assigned to you successfully and profitability, showing growth in attendee, speakers and revenue over time.
- Providing clear achievements and milestone reporting to manager on a regular basis.
- Building and winning over, key judges and experts in allocated industries and territories
- Shows growth in number of award submissions, total participating organisations, unique participating organisations, and total attendees at award ceremony
- Building a high quality event through strong content, working closely with sales team to ensure commercial success of event
- Event marketing - these are activities that promote the event to achieve commercial success and event attendance, including and not limited to, organising eDMs, building event microsite, liaising with sponsors, partnerships with associations, etc.
- Briefing sponsorship and telesales teams to equip sales reps with necessary knowledgement to speak with customers fluently
- Onsite logistics - responsible for onsite operations for all events assigned to you and delivering a strong customer experience.
- Eventually, a Senior EM should be able to identify gaps in the market and developing events of various types in order to take advantage of these gaps
- Liaising with additional teams across Thomson Reuters Asia and cooperating closely with regard to both marketing for the events and event delivery

**About You**

You’ll be a good fit as the Senior Events Manager / Director if you have:

- Minimum 15 years research and Awards programme experience with a demonstrable track record of organising successful events in Asia Pacific.
- Ability to demonstrate strong research abilities and quickly understand a wide range of topics and issues in the legal, regulatory and compliance sphere.
- Strong telephone and interpersonal skills, experience dealing with clients required
- Focus on time management and ability to focus on a number of different projects at any one time, experienced in managing all aspects of event production from start to end.
- Bachelor’s degree or higher education
- Fluency in English, 1 other Asian language advantageous

Desired skills:

- Strong research skills and experience in judges and participant acquisitions
- Ability to work with sponsors, and the sponsorship team to achieve commercial success of the events assigned
- Ability to bring along best practices and experience from previous roles
- Strong organisational, record keeping and time management systems

**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**: Currently the majority of our employees are working within a hybrid environment consisting of in-office and remote work, and following local COVID-19 bylaws and guidelines.
- ** 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: company-wide Mental Health Day Off; 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**: Eight 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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