EMEA Events and Sponsorships Team – Event Manager Associate
On-siteLondon, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Lead the planning and delivery of Investment Banking events across EMEA, including conferences, forums, roundtables, client hospitality, and bespoke strategic programmes. Act as the sole planner on selected events while collaborating on larger flagship programmes, partnering with stakeholders to define objectives, agendas, and success measures. Manage end-to-end project plans, budgets, timelines, and vendor negotiations to ensure cost control and brand alignment. Oversee invitation strategy, registration, delegate management, and onsite delivery while adhering to firm policies and industry regulations. Deliver high-quality output under tight deadlines, adapting to dynamic priorities, early mornings, evenings, and travel as business needs require. Support J.P. Morgan activity throughout EMEA, adapting delivery approaches to local market requirements and cultural considerations.
Required Qualifications
- Experience in event management, event marketing, client engagement, or a related corporate marketing discipline.
- Experience in a global financial services, professional services, corporate, or high-touch client service environment.
- Strong project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple events, stakeholders, budgets, timelines, and deliverables simultaneously.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to deliver clear, succinct, and senior-ready messages.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, including the ability to advise, influence, and build credibility with business partners and internal functions.
- Comfortable using event technology, registration platforms, workflow systems, budget tools, and Microsoft Office applications.
- Demonstrates sound judgement, ownership, high integrity, and the ability to manage risk and escalation appropriately.
- Highly motivated, flexible, solutions-oriented, and comfortable working in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience delivering Investment Banking, senior client, board-level, leadership, or thought-leadership events.
- Understanding of Investment Banking products, sector coverage, corporate client engagement, and the EMEA business environment.
- Proven ability to deliver against agreed objectives, manage senior expectations, and evaluate outcomes effectively.
- Strong commercial awareness, supplier management capability, and budget discipline.
- Supportive team player with a collaborative mindset and the confidence to lead workstreams independently.
- Comfortable with ongoing change, dynamic priorities, and working in a matrix management organisation.
- Advocate for diversity of opinions, styles, and inclusive ways of working.
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