Events Manager

**About QS**

QS is the world’s leading provider of services, analytics, insights, and intelligence to the global higher education sector supporting university excellence across the world. Our student recruitment and enrolment solutions enable universities and business schools to connect with talented individuals seeking to further their academic progress and career development. Our portfolio of professional services includes consultancy, student mobility and academic partnerships management, and branding solutions. We publish highly visible and influential rankings of international universities, including the QS World University Rankings® which reaches a global audience of hundreds of millions of people.

Founded in 1990, our activities span across 50 countries, working with over 2000 of the world’s leading higher education institutions and over 12,000 employers.

Headquartered in London, QS has over 700 employees globally with offices in 14 different countries, including Australia, Malaysia, India, Romania, Singapore, France, Germany, and the USA. QS keeps growing organically, through acquisition and by recruiting top talent across key regions.

**What inspires us?**

At QS, our culture fosters a flexible working environment that encourages our employees to own their career whilst personally and professionally thriving. We collaborate, respect, and support each other and as a company, our values underpin these.

Our mission is to empower motivated people around the world to fulfil their potential through higher education, and to ensure everyone has the same opportunity to achieve that potential. We celebrate the diversity of our teams and believe through sharing our experiences we can learn from one another and become stronger together, which enables us to achieve our goal.

At QS, you’ll be responsible for implementing real change in the international higher education landscape, full of exciting and interesting challenges where you can drive positive impact across the business.

**The role**

This role will report directly to the Executive Producer [Americas & Europe] and offer flexible working arrangements.

Experience working with the HE sector would be useful but not essential and an experience in events management or publishing would be useful.

**Role responsibilities**:

- Support the Executive Producer [Americas & Europe] and team on event planning, budget, strategy, and development, to organize planned &/or sponsored events.
- Assist in the design of the event experience, ensuring a high-quality level of delivery in support of the event's strategy and stakeholder needs.
- Work closely with publication team to draft content for event website, invitation letter, marketing promotions, program brief and social media platforms.
- Liaising with hosts, exhibitors, sponsors, speakers, visitors and internally on logistic aspects
- Interact with key decisions makers and account holders.
- Host meetings with internal and/or external parties to communicate & tie up for event deliveries.
- Work with in-house designer to ensure event information is accurately represented.
- Develop and improve the stakeholder experience in future events.
- Manage and liaise with vendors for quotation, logistic/services requirement, onsite setup, and delivery of the required logistic/services.
- Assist in the management of event websites, CRM system, EDM and weekly newsletter.
- Some travel will be required - up to 30 percent of your time will be spent traveling to various events.
- Scope outside the above listed will be required from time to time as team needs to adapt to changing environment e.g. digital deliveries.

**Key skills and experience**:

- Educated to university degree level.
- Experienced in event marketing, ideally in event industry with capacity to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Proven experience carrying out event marketing efforts, including trade show planning, attendance, and reporting.
- Experience partnering with an enterprise sales team.
- Ability to handle pressure, multi-task, and work within tight schedules/deadlines.
- Highly organized with an ability to manage resources, budgets, and onsite personnel.
- Strong communication skills - written and oral.
- You are creative, innovative, and always think outside the box.
- Highly organized and proficient at managing multiple projects with tight timelines.
- Excellent Spanish and/or Portuguese is highly desirable but not required.
- Excellent English, both written and verbal.
- QS Quacquarelli Symonds is proud to be a fair and equal organisation where everyone has the same opportunity to achieve their full potential, irrespective of their background or personal attributes. We celebrate our diversity and believe through sharing our experiences we can learn from one another, be stronger together, and enable our business to thrive._