Career Opportunities
Event Manager – US
Diversified. Resilient. Dynamic.
Marex is a global financial services platform, providing essential liquidity, market access and infrastructure services to clients in the energy, commodities and financial markets.
The Group provides comprehensive breadth and depth of coverage across four core services: Market Making, Clearing, Hedging and Investment Solutions and Agency and Execution. It has a major franchise in many major metals, energy and agricultural products, executing around 50 million trades and clearing 205 million contracts in 2022. The Group provides access to the world’s major commodity markets, covering a broad range of clients that include some of the largest commodity producers, consumers and traders, banks, hedge funds and asset managers.
With more than 35 offices around the globe, and over 2,300 dedicated people enabling access to exchanges and technology-powered services.
For more information visit www.marex.com
Purpose of Role:
Marex is seeking an Event Manager who is responsible for planning and executing a range of internal and external events that support the firm’s brand, business development goals, and employee engagement initiatives in the United States/Americas. The role involves collaborating closely with the Global Events Management team, broader corporate affairs team, human resources, and senior leadership in the Americas to deliver high quality experiences.
This role has a joint reporting structure and will report to the Head of Marketing and Communications, Americas and the Global Events Manager based in the UK.
Marex has unique access across markets with significant share globally both on and off exchange. The depth of knowledge amongst its teams and divisions provides its customers with clear advantage, and its technology-led service provides access to all major exchanges, order-flow management via screen, voice and DMA, plus award-winning data, insights and analytics.
Responsibilities:
- Plan and manage a variety of in-person, virtual, and hybrid events including conferences, client receptions, investor meetings, and internal events such as holiday parties, offsites, and team-building activities.
- Own the end-to-end even lifecycle – concept development, logistics, execution, and post-event follow-up
- Partner with corporate affairs, human resources, and leadership to plan and execute culture-building events including milestone celebrations, employee recognition events, town halls, and social gatherings.
- Support initiatives that enhance employee engagement and reflect company values.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (marketing, communications, sales, human resources, leadership) to align event goals with broader business objectives.
- Act as the main point of contact for senior stakeholders and participants, ensuring they are fully briefed and supported.
- Build and manage detailed budgets for each event, ensuring accuracy, and adherence to financial guidelines.
- Negotiate with vendors for cost-effective solutions without compromising quality.
- Work with corporate affairs to develop even communications, including invitations, event branding, digital assets, and promotional content.
- Manage registration and communication platforms, ensuring seamless attendee experience.\
- Serve as the lead on-site, managing setup, guest check-in, run-of-show, and troubleshooting.
- Coordinate internal staff, vendors, and volunteers to deliver high-quality experiences.
- Collect and analyze event data and feedback to measure success and identify areas of improvement.
- Provide detailed post-event reports and ROI analysis.
- Manage relationships with venues, AV teams, catering, and technology providers.
- Utilize tools like HubSpot, Zoom, or Microsoft Teams for efficient planning execution.
- Ensure all events are compliant with financial services regulations and internal policies.
- Coordinate with legal and compliance teams as needed for approvals and risk assessment.
- Ensuring compliance with the company’s regulatory requirements under the SEC, FINRA, NFA, CFTC and other applicable exchanges.
- Adhere to the operational risk framework for your role ensuring that all regulatory or company determined parameters are complied with.
- Role model for demonstrating highest level standards of integrity and conduct and reflecting Company Values.
- At all times complying with Marex’s Code of Conduct:
- To ensure that you are fully aware of and adhere to internal policies that relate to you, your role or any other activities for which you have any level of responsibility
- To report any breaches of policy to Compliance and/ or your supervisor as required
- To escalate risk events immediatel
- To provide input to risk management processes, as required.
The Company may require you to carry out other duties from time to time.
Competencies, Skills and Experience
Competencies
- Demonstrates curiosity
- Resilient in a challenging, fast-paced environment
- Ability to take a high level of responsibility in a fast pace and high-volume environment
- Excels at building relationships, networking and influencing others
- Brings fresh ideas to event concepts and formats with an ability to think on their feet and resolve issues quickly during live events.
- Strategic collaborator with insight and agility, able to anticipate future challenges, ensuring operational effectiveness
Skills and Experience
- Three to five years of event planning experience
- Bachelor’s degree preferred
- Project management skills with high attention to detai
- Strong budget and vendor management skill
- Excellent verbal and written communication skill
- Experience working in a regulated environment and knowledge of the risk and compliance requirements associated with this.
- Proficient in HubSpot with hands-on experience in managing and optimizing campaigns
- Advanced user of Figma for design projects, including the creation of digital invitations and marketing materials
- Experienced in Microsoft Office Suite, including Excel, PowerPoint, and MS Forms
- Experienced with Zoom and other video messaging platforms for effective communication and collaboration
Salary Range: $75,000 to $110,000 per year base salary and eligible for discretionary bonus.
Marex Benefits for 2025
Company Values:
Acting as a role model for the values of the Company:
Respect
– Clients are at the heart of our business, with superior execution and superb client service the foundation of the firm. We respect our clients and always treat them fairly.
Integrity
– Doing business the right way is the only way. We hold ourselves to a high ethical standard in everything we do – our clients expect this and we demand it of ourselves.
Collaborative
– We work in teams – open and direct communication and the willingness to work hard and collaboratively are the basis for effective teamwork. Working well with others is necessary for us to succeed at what we do.
Developing our People
– Our people are the basis of our competitive advantage. We look to “grow our own” and make Marex the place ambitious, hardworking, talented people choose to build their careers.
Adaptable and Nimble
– Our size and flexibility is an advantage. We are big enough to support our client’s various needs, and adaptable and nimble enough to respond quickly to changing conditions or requirements. A non-bureaucratic, but well controlled environment fosters initiative as well as employee satisfaction.
Marex is fully committed to the elimination of unlawful or unfair discrimination and values the differences that a diverse workforce brings to the company.
We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by the law.
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