The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc

Executive Office, Speaker & Conference Strategy, Vice President, New York

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc • $125K — $250K *
New York, NY 10025In-Person
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
4 days ago
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in event management or conference planning
  • Strong relationship management skills with internal and external stakeholders
  • Proven ability to optimize engagement and speaker utilization
  • Experience with data management and analytics tools
  • Familiarity with emerging technologies and AI-enabled solutions in event planning
  • Excellent negotiation skills
  • Bachelors degree in a related field or equivalent experience

Responsibilities

  • Prioritize and strategize conferences and events using a tiered framework
  • Assist teams in defining objectives and scopes for their conferences
  • Advise on content development and speaker opportunities
  • Coordinate leadership participation in key events
  • Manage data and tracking for both internal and external conferences
  • Source and centralize lists of internal and external speakers
  • Develop guidelines for speaker engagement and manage logistics for external speakers

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health and wellness offerings
  • Retirement savings plans with company matching
  • Paid time off and holidays
  • Access to training and professional development programs
  • Employee assistance programs and mental health resources
  • Diversity and inclusion initiatives supporting various communities
Full Job Description
Overview

Conferences and events are a key opportunity to enhance the firm's brand and continue to position Goldman Sachs as a thought leader and convener. A core part of our conference and event strategy is to select speakers whose content can help align with our business strategy and our own thought leadership priorities. Due to the dynamic and evolving nature of our business, the strategy and execution for sourcing content and speakers remains necessarily fluid and requires constant research and relationship management, both internally and externally.

Conferences
  • Prioritize conferences and events using a tiered framework
  • Assist internal teams in crafting an overall objective and scope for their conferences (prioritizing flagship engagements)
  • Advise on content development and speaker opportunities
  • Coordinate leadership participation
  • Maintain tracking and data strategy for internal and external conferences
  • Coordinate cross-divisional events on similar topics for similar audiences
  • Partner with firmwide host teams, stakeholders Events team globally to embed culture and history into select conferences and events
    • Evaluate and implement AI-enabled solutions to support speaker research, profile management, workflow automation, reporting, conference analysis, and operational efficiency initiatives.
    • Identify opportunities to leverage emerging technologies across conference strategy, external speaker engagement, and platform management activities..

Speakers - GS Speakers Bureau

The GS Speakers Bureau will act as a "market-maker" for harnessing the firm's relationships and helping to align the right speaker(s) - internal and external - with the right events and programming, no matter where they originate or are located, optimizing the process, outcomes and ROI.The Bureau will aim to build a deep and diverse bench of internal speakers and subject matter experts the firm can deploy strategically for internal and external events.
  • Sourcing - Compile and centralize lists of internal and external speakers and their areas of expertise and build on these lists, seeking to build an ever-growing roster of diverse talent.
  • Engagement - Develop a consistent set of guidelines around all aspects of this process, including sourcing the right speaker(s) for specific events, engaging with external speakers bureaus and agencies (as needed), and managing contracts, legal/compliance clearance, logistics and payments with external speakers.
  • Optimization - Seek to identify ways to optimize our engagement with speakers and maximize the reach and impact of their messages and content, for example coordinating additional, ancillary sessions/events for select groups, repurposing content for a variety of internal and external channels, etc.
  • Data Management - work with EO Engineering on SEEH, Salesforce, and GS Speakers Bureau enhancing data capture, dashboards, and reporting.

Consulting: Strategy, Content Development, Speaker Vetting and Due Diligence
  • Act as Executive Office representative / voice on content and speakers for all top-tier conferences, signature events (flagship conferences) and special events (10KSB events, etc.)
  • Partner with businesses and host teams to define conference and speaker objectives and priorities for client experience
  • Research relevant and engaging speakers
  • Develop strong relationships with speakers directly or with their exclusive representation (agency)
  • Ensure speakers are drawn from various industries, regions and backgrounds
  • Recommend speakers / create speaker lists for internal groups
  • Provide feedback on speakers submitted by internal groups
  • Confirm the same speakers are not utilized repeatedly
  • Perform due diligence, vet speakers with other groups
  • Obtain approvals / post stakeholders on various teams for external speakers
  • Create, advise on and review session themes, content, speaker questions, etc.
  • Review conference and speaker decks
    • Create and maintain operational documentation, resource libraries, standards, reference materials, internal websites, and knowledge repositories supporting conference and speaker management activities.
    • Maintain speaker engagement resources, Conference resource pages, SEEH resource hubs, and process documentation.

Relationship Management and Negotiation
  • Executive Office liaison with speaker bureaus / agents / representatives / publishers
  • Work with speaker bureaus to identify speakers, check availability, negotiate fees, etc. or work directly with the speaker
  • Look for opportunities to maximize utilization of speakers (e.g. additional roundtable, meet and greet, Talks at GS)
  • Execute book buys for select speakers
  • Confirm a 'Thank You' email goes to the speaker (same day as engagement preferred)

Execution
  • Partner with Events Management Group and Self-Managed event stakeholders on logistics to ensure positive speaker experience
    • Travel, hotel, car service, parking, etc.
  • Confirm platform and A/V setup
  • Create / review / distribute briefing documents for speakers and moderators
  • Provide oversight on room reservations
  • Ensure each speaker has a proper introduction from a senior GS Host and seamless interactions throughout their engagement

Speaker and Event Engagement Hub (SEEH)
  • Approvals: Review all external speaker engagement requests submitted via the Speaker and Event Engagement Hub on behalf of the Executive Office and submit action via eTask
  • Answer any questions from Approver Groups (e.g. Media Relations, Government Affairs, Business Intelligence Group) regarding PERMIT roles, specific speakers, and SES troubleshooting
  • Ongoing System Enhancements
  • Provide input and oversight on recommended enhancements to improve the user experience and approval process for external speakers
  • Manage development and integration of approval process for GS speakers speaking internally and externally (Speakers Bureau)

SEEH Training, Education & Change Management
  • Approvals: Review all external speaker engagement requests submitted via the Speaker and Event Engagement Hub on behalf of the Executive Office and submit action via eTask
  • Answer any questions from Approver Groups (e.g. Media Relations, Government Affairs, Business Intelligence Group) regarding PERMIT roles, specific speakers, and SES troubleshooting
  • Ongoing System Enhancements
  • Provide input and oversight on recommended enhancements to improve the user experience and approval process for external speakers
  • Manage development and integration of approval process for GS speakers speaking internally and externally (Speakers Bureau)


Salary Range
The expected base salary for this New York, NY, United States-based position is $125000-$250000. In addition, you may be eligible for a discretionary bonus if you are an active employee as of fiscal year-end.

Benefits
Goldman Sachs is committed to providing our people with valuable and competitive benefits and wellness offerings, as it is a core part of providing a strong overall employee experience. A summary of these offerings, which are generally available to active, non-temporary, full-time and part-time US employees who work at least 20 hours per week, can be found here.

About The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. provides investment banking, securities, and investment management services, as well as financial services to corporations, financial institutions, governments, and high-net-worth individuals worldwide. Its Investment Banking segment offers financial advisory services, including advisory assignments concerning mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, corporate defense, risk management, and restructurings and spin-offs; and underwriting services comprising public offerings and private placements of a range of securities, loans, and other financial instruments, and derivative transactions. The company’s Institutional Client Services segment provides client execution services, such as fixed income, currency, and commodities client execution related to making markets in interest rate products, credit products, mortgages, currencies, and commodities; and equities related to making markets in equity products, as well as executes and clears institutional client transactions on stock, options, and futures exchanges. This segment also engages in the securities services business providing financing, securities lending, and other brokerage services to institutional clients, including hedge funds, mutual funds, pension funds, and foundations. Its Investing and Lending segment originates longer-term loans; and invests in debt securities, loans, public and private equity securities, real estate, consolidated investment entities, distressed assets, currencies, commodities, and power generation facilities. The company’s investment management segment provides investment products and services, as well as offers wealth advisory services, including portfolio management and financial counseling, and brokerage and other transaction services.

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Learn more about The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc
Size
45,100 employees
Market Cap
$115.8 billion
Industry
Finance & Insurance
Net Income
$9.4 billion
Founded
1869
5 Year Trend
+11.3%
Revenue
$53.4 billion
NASDAQ
GS
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