Markets Group

• Collaborate with the senior management team to develop a strategic and tactical plan to achieve the desired annual revenue targets. • Manage and prioritize all opportunities to enhance client relationships and accelerate the decision-making process that will grow revenue through increased utilization. • Strategize with client account leads on a weekly basis on all opportunities to ensure solutions are being effectively sold; accurately forecast respective opportunities based upon realistic assessments. • Demonstrate clear understanding of the sales process and product and service value propositions. • Update CRM Database and related applications to ensure accuracy of all relevant client and prospect information. • Work with the sponsorship sales manager to complete requests for proposals/information in a timely, accurate and professional manner. • Supporting client contact on strategic accounts including facilitating investor meetings, collecting event deliverables and executing sponsorship deliverables. • Conduct initial investor outreach by telephone and e-mail to secure calls and/or meetings with clients’ key prospects. • Schedule, manage and execute all client and prospect calls, meetings and events including the preparation and follow up on behalf of the client; attend and schedule client and prospect meetings and conference calls for team managers. • Organize, produce and manage collateral materials necessary for any conferences

• Manage daily administrative tasks to ensure the Marketing department runs smoothly • Conduct market research to identify new opportunities • Gather and analyse consumer behaviour data (e.g. web traffic and rankings) • Create reports on marketing and sales metrics, like conversion rates • Assist with organizing promotional events • Coordinate with the Marketing Design and Content teams to create advertising material (e.g. brochures and newsletters) • Keep organized records of marketing metrics and results of past campaigns • Prepare regular sales forecasting reports • Monitor competitors’ marketing activities

• Source and secure leading speakers and attendees to ensure that all key industry influencers are represented • Schedule and lead in person and phone meetings with speakers • Write, research, edit conference agendas and supporting marketing content • Partner with graphic design to create and update conference materials • Onsite conference management including attendee registration, managing vendors and event set up

Company Description Markets Group, a leading financial events company for institutional and private wealth investors, is recruiting a few good reporters who can write about asset classes, markets and investors in a way that keeps readers engaged on the page. This news team will go beyond daily market and finance headlines and present news for sophisticated, next-level investors on why it all matters. We will present case studies on investors who are doing things well, and why. And scoops on what’s happening. We are looking for reporters who can explain and analyze market changes, write and interview for in-depth stories, explain new trends in finance, and break news on institutional investors, money managers and service providers. Our goal is to become a trusted news source to help those who invest for pension plans, endowments, foundations, family offices and private wealth, in order to protect the millions of people who rely on their funds. This journalist will report and produce editorial content on issues facing some of the largest money managers and investors in the world. Such content includes, but is not limited to, breaking news articles, news analysis, news features and enterprise reporting, along with some video and social media posts. If you have a specialty in a particular asset class, we'd love to hear from you. Please include strong clips on the subject in your application, as well as a cover letter. This is an office optional position. We offer a creative, upbeat and exciting workplace that values curiosity, a sense of mission, excellence in reporting, top-notch writing skills, and innovation. We prioritize in-depth, analytical reporting and narrative writing. We value talent, and this position will give reporters the opportunity to break news and talk to some of the most influential investors in the world. Qualified applicants must have the courage to approach investors, have great conversations that uncover information, and be able to tell insightful stories that dig deep into trends effecting institutional investing in the United States as well as the world. Basic Requirements: B.A. in journalism or related field required. Experience in with asset classes, investing or corporate finance reporting. Ability to uncover exclusive news and pitch story ideas. Deep understanding of finance and ability to discern investment topics that move markets. Knack for working in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment; possess strong time management skills for factual, efficient work on concurrent stories or projects. Ability to write accurately and clearly on tight deadlines while also engaging readers with compelling copy. Ability to not only cover the news and generate enterprise features, but also to report and write insightful analysis. Obsessed with getting exclusive news, with a collaborative mindset. Qualifications Preferences: Ability to understand and use corporate financial documents, as well as federal legislative, regulatory and legal documents including (but not limited to) 10-Ks or proxy statements, bill language, enforcement orders and lawsuit in your journalism. Proven ability to develop sources and work a beat. Knowledge of institutional investing and specifically how to cover the intersection of U.S. federal legislation, regulation, policy making and politics with investment issues, tax policy, pension funds, endowments, financial markets and more. Basic MS Excel ability. Skilled in social media, with track record of using social tools to enhance readership. Additional Information All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.