Location
London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Competitive, commensurate with experience

About the Role
Join us as a Strategic Events Manager, where you'll play a significant role in shaping and executing event strategy to drive business growth and brand awareness. You will craft and deliver strategic event marketing programmes aligned with our business initiatives, focusing on the diverse needs of corporate treasurers and their teams within EMEA's largest corporates, non-bank financial institutions, and key public sector organisations. Collaborate closely with local corporate bankers and cross-functional teams to deliver innovative proprietary events and leverage sponsorships that showcase the full breadth of J.P. Morgan's capabilities. Your strategic vision and creative execution will be essential in fostering meaningful client engagement and maintaining J.P. Morgan's position as a leading corporate bank in EMEA.

As part of the GCB Strategic Events team, you will lead end-to-end event delivery from concept through completion, managing multiple business lines to maximise shared opportunities and deliver high-quality outputs under tight deadlines. Responsibilities include venue research, agenda curation, external speaker identification, invitation management, logistics coordination, on-site event execution, vendor management, budget tracking, and post-event analysis. You will ensure compliance with internal processes, controls, and regulations, partnering with Legal and Compliance teams as needed. Additionally, you will provide ongoing support to senior management and contribute to team development by coaching Strategic Event Associates.

Experience
- Proven experience in event marketing, ideally within global financial services or professional services (in-house or agency)
- Demonstrated ability to plan and deliver end-to-end event programmes across multiple concurrent projects and deadlines
- Strong project and time management skills with excellent organisation, prioritisation, and attention to detail
- Analytical and solutions-led thinker, comfortable interpreting complex information to inform decisions and improve outcomes
- Clear and concise written and verbal communication skills, including strong editing and proofreading
- Confident senior stakeholder management and engagement
- Experience managing budgets and conducting post-event financial analysis
- Skilled at collaborating across matrix teams and influencing without authority
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint

About You
- Demonstrates integrity, professionalism, accountability, and a proactive ownership mindset
- Adaptable and effective under pressure in fast-paced environments with competing priorities
- Creative and innovative, bringing fresh ideas and practical judgement to deliver high-impact event solutions
- Comfortable with continuous improvement and evolving processes/tools
- Willing and able to travel approximately 10-25% within EMEA
- Ability to become a power user of event technology platforms (e.g., Zkipster, SharePoint, Nominator, Stova)

Qualifications
- Experience developing distinctive event and/or sponsorship programmes supporting commercial objectives is preferred
- Experience delivering client-facing corporate events and sponsorships in a corporate setting
- Proven budget ownership experience including tracking and reconciliation
- Comfortable partnering on event reporting and analysis to demonstrate ROI and strengthen decision-making
- Knowledge of relevant compliance, legal, and anti-corruption requirements is advantageous