Corporate Marketing and Event Management Consultant

Chicago, IL (On-site)

$60/hr – $65/hrMid Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 5 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end corporate event management across multi-currency budgets, supplier relationships, and brand-aligned experiences that meet internal goals.

  • Event ownership: plan and execute CME Group in-person and virtual conferences from concept through delivery.
  • Budget and compliance: manage multi-currency budgets, invoices, GDPR data handling, and post-event reporting.
  • Vendor & channel partnerships: liaise with suppliers, industry organizations, and in-house creative for assets and promotions.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Plans and executes CME Group events and conferences both in-person and virtually, delivering world class events to meet business goals and objectives of internal stakeholders.
  • Actively measures and communicates event success through post event feedback and reports, identifying key learnings and improvements for repeat events.
  • Manages multi-currency event budgets and invoice processing ensuring events are delivered within or under budget.
  • Ensures brand standards are consistently applied across all digital and physical event assets.
  • Acts as a liaison and builds and maintains relationships with various suppliers, industry organizations, exchanges and affiliate partners.
  • Works with our in-house creative team to develop event invitations and other branded assets to promote events.
  • Manages event RSVP lists and client data in event campaigns according to GDPR regulations.
  • Proactively researches venues, event concepts and best practice.
  • Represents CME Group at relevant events.

Requirements

  • More than 3 years of experience in corporate financial event management
  • Proficient in Google Workspace or equivalent; Cvent (or alternative Event management Software) Salesforce, Marketing Cloud
  • Excellent interpersonal skills
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Great team player, able to build strong working relationships across all areas of the business
  • Must be able to work in a dynamic team environment and juggle diverse/multiple projects
  • Ability to work on own initiative
  • Strong attention to detail, planning and decision-making skills including the ability to effectively negotiate pricing and contracts to ensure costs are managed and deadlines are met
  • Ability to travel as required including site inspections and onsite support. May include evenings and weekends.
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CME Group

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As the world's leading derivatives marketplace, CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) is where the world comes to manage risk. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes, including futures and options based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural commodities, metals, weather and real estate. CME Group brings buyers and sellers together through its CME Globex® electronic trading platform and its trading facilities in New York and Chicago. CME Group also operates CME Clearing, one of the world’s leading central counterparty clearing provider in the world, which offers clearing and settlement services for exchange-traded contracts, as well as for over-the-counter derivatives transactions through CME ClearPort®. These products and services ensure that businesses everywhere can substantially mitigate counterparty credit risk in both listed and over-the-counter derivatives markets.

Chicago, IL, US
3.6K employees (149 in marketing)
81% recommend to a friend
79% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
5.6M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$60.7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
34.1%
Direct
61.1%
Referral
3.8%
Social
0.5%
Paid
0.3%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~3.7K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
130 (4% of company)
Median Career Experience
14 years
Median Tenure
7.5 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Total Funding
$1B
Last Raise
$1B
Post IPO Equity, 4 years ago

Funding History

  • Nov 2021
    Post IPO Equity • $1B

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