Step into a role where your event management expertise, stakeholder judgement, and delivery discipline can shine. As part of the CIB EMEA Investment Banking Event Marketing team, you will lead the planning and execution of high-quality client experiences that support senior Investment Banking priorities across the region. Join a team that values excellence, collaboration, creativity, and operational rigour, where your contribution will help shape client engagement and enhance the firm’s brand presence across the UK and Europe.

As an Event Manager, Associate within CIB EMEA Investment Banking Event Marketing, you will manage a portfolio of high-profile events from concept through completion, including conferences, forums, board-level programmes, roundtables, leadership meetings, client hospitality, and bespoke strategic initiatives. You will partner closely with Investment Banking stakeholders, regional marketing colleagues, internal control functions, and external vendors to create commercially relevant, compliant, and polished experiences for clients and senior leaders. This role provides the opportunity to lead independent projects, contribute to larger flagship programmes, manage budgets and suppliers, and drive continuous improvement across the event lifecycle.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead the planning and delivery of Investment Banking events, including conferences, forums, roundtables, client hospitality, internal leadership meetings, and bespoke strategic programmes across EMEA.

• Act as the sole planner on selected events while collaborating with colleagues on larger, multi-workstream projects and flagship programmes.

• Partner with Investment Banking business stakeholders to define event objectives, target audiences, agenda structure, messaging, client experience, and success measures.

• Manage end-to-end project plans, timelines, budgets, approvals, risk logs, stakeholder updates, and post-event reconciliation or reporting.

• Manage budgets and negotiate costs with venues, agencies, speakers, production partners, caterers, and other suppliers to deliver quality, value, and cost control.

• Instruct and manage internal and external vendors, ensuring high standards of delivery, service, brand alignment, and operational excellence.

• Oversee invitation strategy, registration, client data, delegate management, communications, briefing materials, speaker logistics, and onsite delivery.

• Ensure adherence to firm policies, controls, procurement requirements, brand standards, data handling expectations, and relevant industry regulations.

• Support J.P. Morgan activity throughout EMEA, adapting delivery approach to local market requirements, stakeholder needs, and cultural considerations.

• Deliver high-quality output under tight deadlines, adapting to dynamic priorities and supporting early mornings, evenings, and travel as business needs require.

• Advocate for innovation, continuous improvement, inclusive collaboration, and consistent best practice across Investment Banking Event Marketing.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Experience in event management, event marketing, client engagement, or a related corporate marketing discipline.

• Experience in a global financial services, professional services, corporate, or high-touch client service environment.

• Strong project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple events, stakeholders, budgets, timelines, and deliverables simultaneously.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to deliver clear, succinct, and senior-ready messages.

• Strong stakeholder management skills, including the ability to advise, influence, and build credibility with business partners and internal functions.

• Comfortable using event technology, registration platforms, workflow systems, budget tools, and Microsoft Office applications.

• Demonstrates sound judgement, ownership, high integrity, and the ability to manage risk and escalation appropriately.

• Highly motivated, flexible, solutions-oriented, and comfortable working in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Experience delivering Investment Banking, senior client, board-level, leadership, or thought-leadership events.

• Understanding of Investment Banking products, sector coverage, corporate client engagement, and the EMEA business environment.

• Proven ability to deliver against agreed objectives, manage senior expectations, and evaluate outcomes effectively.

• Strong commercial awareness, supplier management capability, and budget discipline.

• Supportive team player with a collaborative mindset and the confidence to lead workstreams independently.

• Comfortable with ongoing change, dynamic priorities, and working in a matrix management organisation.

• Advocate for diversity of opinions, styles, and inclusive ways of working.

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.
We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.