External Events Manager Job in Delhi NCR at Tide

Tide is hiring for the role of External Events Manager!

Responsibilities of the Candidate:

• Helping to build and execute events in India as part of Tide’s India and integrated global themes and strategies.
• Owning major events, both flagship events, and those where Tideans in India appear with 3rd parties. These could cover, for example, the Global Fintech Festival and Fintech Festival India, amongst others.
• Preparing, organizing, and executing large 3rd party in-person, online events, and flagship external facing events, where senior Tideans and external stakeholders appear.
• Coordinating and managing logistics, including liaising with external event organizers, and production agencies across multiple locations in India. Attendance and travel where required.
• Scouting, sourcing, and securing events. Connect with organizers, (e.g., industry bodies and government stakeholders), with the goal of securing opportunities for senior thought leaders at Tide India to attend/speak.
• Owning the process from entry, to acceptance to participation, and follow up.
• Working to make Tide visible in India’s fintech and tech ecosystems.
• Managing event-related relationships with industry, and government bodies to maximize benefits and ensure relationship longevity, where Tideans are involved externally.
• Helping senior Tideans (who will be speaking at these events) with talking points for their panel/speakership slot, or presentations/deck, and case studies.
• Supporting the India PR & Comms team, and global PR & Comms team on the above.
• Messaging and custodian of Tide’s external ‘voice’: collaborating with Tideans to align on messaging at events.
• Ensuring content is ‘on message’ and supports Tide’s growth strategy.
• Integrating event activity featuring Tide, or a Tidean, with other business teams to drive consistent brand messaging.
• Managing best practice follow-up on events with external stakeholders around content, including social media, earned media, and other relationship-building opportunities.
• Ideating with Tide teams and supporting performance metrics. Driving awareness, engagement, perceptions, and intent to activation.
• Evolving and improving measurement.
• Possible on-site visits around India ahead of an event as required. Negotiating and implementing contractual agreements with vendors and onsite teams, at events where Tide appears.
• Maintaining an annual event India calendar/tracker that would enlist all the relevant events throughout the year.
• Communicating effectively and constructively with all internal stakeholders, partners, agencies, external vendors, and internal teams for events in which Tideans appear.

Requirements:

• Excellent spoken and written English skills
• Ability to navigate through the financial and fintech ecosystem to scout event opportunities 
• Confident talking with various internal and external stakeholders to not just secure but convert speaking opportunities for leadership 
• Passion for pitching, you should have great pitching skills 
• Passion for problem-solving and finding solutions to difficult situations
• Strong organizational skills
• Experience working in the events space as well as in the finance industry
• You have some experience working in startups
• Attention to detail