Events Marketing Lead

London, UK (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level2+ years exp

Posted 3 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the end-to-end event marketing engine for a global B2B events portfolio, with a focus on audience growth, delegate acquisition, and revenue-aligned activation across platforms.

  • Growth & Audience: Lead audience acquisition and engagement for General Counsel and senior in-house communities to boost registrations and participation.
  • Marketing Operations: Manage Delegate Acquisition and Events Media and ensure alignment across marketing, CRM, and events touchpoints.
  • Lifecycle & Experience: Ensure seamless event discovery, registration, attendance, and ongoing community engagement through consistent digital experiences and communications.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead marketing strategy for our global portfolio of events.
  • Drive audience growth, including the expansion and engagement of Legal 500's General Counsel and senior in-house counsel communities.
  • Help drive growth in summit delegate registrations, awards participation and customer engagement across the events portfolio.
  • Lead/manage our Delegate Acquisition and Events Media functions, helping to ensure alignment across all marketing and acquisition activities.
  • Ensure consistency and integrity in our event marketing, digital platforms, community engagement and customer touchpoints.
  • Ensure audiences have a seamless and engaging experience from event discovery through to registration, attendance and ongoing community engagement.

Requirements

  • Experience leading a marketing function in a B2B Events business, ideally one that caters to Corporate or Professional Services markets (Legal, Finance, Technology or comparable)
  • Ability to develop and deliver marketing strategies that drive audience growth with a strong understanding of audience acquisition, segmentation and customer engagement
  • Proven ability to lead, develop and motivate high-performing teams - in particular, we're looking for experience in managing managers
  • Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence and collaborate across functions (particularly Group Marketing, CRM, Data and the wider Events function)
  • Comfort in ambiguity, Legal 500 is in a state of change and modernisation - there is huge scope to make an impact fast, but we can't promise the journey there will be linear!
  • Commercial mindset - experience supporting revenue growth through audience development and lead generation
  • Experience with CRM systems, marketing technology and event platforms
  • Understanding of GDPR, data governance and digital customer journeys
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Legal 500, founded by John Pritchard in 1987, is the world's leading legal services benchmarking platform, connecting global law firms with international clients. Across more than 100 countries, legal500.com delivers trusted insights through comprehensive research processes and proprietary data from 300,000+ clients and 60,000+ law firm submissions annually. More than 150 researchers and analysts evaluate law firms against the broadest possible range of practice area competencies, industry sector expertise and client satisfaction metrics. Legal 500 empowers buyers and sellers in the legal market to make informed decisions and achieve better outcomes through unparalleled depth of research and legal market data.

Founded in 1987
London, England, GBR
440 employees (64 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
678.7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
63.3%
Direct
29.3%
Referral
5.1%
Social
1%
Paid
0.8%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~440

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
54 (12% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
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