Market Engagement & Events Manager

About this role

Are you commercially minded, curious about what is happening in the market and passionate about creating B2B experiences that have a genuine business purpose? We're looking for a B2B Marketing Engagement & Events Manager to join our Retail B2B Marketing team. This isn't purely an event logistics role. You'll be looking at our markets, audiences and commercial priorities, helping determine where we should show up, what we should talk about and how our activity can create measurable value.

You'll work closely with Distribution and colleagues across B2B Marketing, developing relevant event concepts and content while taking ownership of activity through to delivery and evaluation. What you'll be doing: ● Building an understanding of our markets, audiences and competitive landscape to identify valuable engagement opportunities ● Developing creative event propositions and content that respond to audience and business needs ● Partnering with Distribution to align activity with strategic priorities and desirable sales outcomes ● Planning and delivering in-person and hybrid events across the B2B engagement programme ● Managing flagship conferences and relationships with venues, suppliers, sponsors, speakers and exhibitors ● Managing event budgets, reconciliation and reporting ● Evaluating performance through audience insight, CRM, Cvent and Distribution metrics ● Ensuring event activity and communications meet relevant compliance, approval and data protection requirements Who we're looking for: ● Experience developing and delivering B2B market engagement or event programmes ● Strong commercial judgement and the ability to explain the business purpose behind an event or engagement opportunity ● An ability to understand audiences, markets and competitors and translate insight into relevant propositions and content ● Strong project management skills and evidence of managing multiple stakeholders and priorities ● Excellent written, verbal, relationship-building and negotiation skills ● Experience working with agencies and external suppliers ● Confidence using CRM and event technology, with an openness to using AI to improve ways of working ● Financial services or regulated-sector experience would be useful, but strongly commercial backgrounds are also welcome Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you.