Marketing and Events Executive - Melbourne or Sydney

Exciting opportunity to transition into a leading tier-one global management consultancy firm.

Days/Hours:  Flexible part-time or full-time. 12 month contract with opportunity for permanent

Start: Immediate / early October

About the business

L.E.K. Consulting is one of the world's leading management consulting firms with our people working at the forefront of technology, disruption and transformation. The strategies we develop help shape organisations, governments and society in significant and positive ways. We work with major ASX and blue-chip clients, governments, private equity and investment funds.

About the role (overview/purpose)

We are seeking a marketing and events executive to help plan for and deliver a marketing and events program with key practice areas of the firm. If you have 2-5 years of professional services marketing experience and are keen to explore the management consulting sector this could be a fantastic opportunity.

The marketing and events executive will coordinate marketing events, business development activities, digital marketing campaigns and provide implementation support for L.E.K Australia’s marketing generally. This is an exciting role working along-side the CMO and Partners to deliver marketing and sector business plans. This role will begin with a 12-month parental leave contract with a strong prospect for ongoing development into a sector specialist marketing role.

Core responsibilities:

• With the country CMO manage L.E.K.’s Australian events program including digital promotion, invite and attendee management, planning and logistics.
• Implement and track marketing campaigns, ensuring that activities, follow-up meetings are tracked in CRM.
• Provide administration support for marketing including coordination of weekly CRM pipeline and business development reporting, expense and budget management.
• Provide marketing support for sector development meetings ensuring plans are in place, communicated and executed with sector teams.
• Remain up-to-date with industry events, seminars, conferences and networking opportunities which will be fed into the L.E.K. events program. This includes coordination of related sponsorships and industry association memberships.
• Key point of contact for queries from EA’s and Partners on events, including training of new EA’s on CRM.
• Coordinate L.E.K. thought leadership reports and award submissions.
• Provide client and sector specific research to support client initiatives.

Skills & experienced required:

• 2-5 years minimum supporting marketing operations
• Experience using CRM and marketing automation systems (preferred Salesforce and Pardot)
• Experience successfully planning and executing corporate boardroom events
• Experience with content marketing, including advising senior executives on timelines, process and content development.
• Some exposure to social network marketing.
• Ability to both work independently, collaborate effectively with team colleagues and comfortable working with and advising Partners on marketing tasks.

Key stakeholder relationships:

• CMO
• Asia Pacific Partners
• AU Corporate functions – Finance, IT and HR.

How to apply: 

• Please email your CV to d.eggers@lek.com for a confidential conversation.