Associate, Content

Content Creation Associate 

Gurugram, India

Job Summary

GLG Events provides unique, market-moving insights and perspectives on current events and market trends by leveraging the voices of the world’s leading professionals. We create thousands of live engagements every year - from roundtables and teleconferences to custom workshops and focus groups.

We are seeking a Content Creation Associate to conduct research leading into curation and designing of interviews with experts created to engage investors who follow market trends. The role will require passion for following financial markets; an ability to research and identify relevant market trends; identifying and shortlisting industry leaders, C-level executives, and subject matter experts to discern which experts are best to address a specific theme or topic. The Associate will be responsible for growing GLG’s Content by generating a pipeline of high-quality interviews with experts that effectively elicit market insights across a wide variety of topics.

Specific responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

• Partner with GLG event hosts and contribute to content strategy by building a pipeline of programmable events
• Identify and research market trends and company updates
• Demonstrate sound editorial judgement by selecting current and relevant event topics and speakers for conversations that clients find relevant, compelling, and valuable
• Execute internal deliverables that include fleshed out research themes, expert profiles, marketing documents, project case files and high-level questionnaires
• Execute GLG’s user-focused event strategy, building our portfolio of exclusive Library content and ensuring all content meets GLG’s high quality and compliance standards

An ideal candidate will have the following attributes:

• Up to 2 years of related experience in financial services research, financial journalism, or business research.
• Ability to work across one of our two programs – EMEA (10:30AM-7:30PM IST) or Americas (1:00-10:00PM IST)
• The ability to identify and build topics based on an understanding of how investors work and think
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills including copy-editing and interpersonal skills
• Positive attitude and being a team player are key; also the ability to operate effectively in a newly-created team and with a ‘startup’ mindset
• Be self-motivated while nurturing mutual success and camaraderie, resulting in a high performing team
• Must be able to collaborate across regional teams, be effective in a remote working environment, and be adaptable
• Possess an entrepreneurial and collaborative spirit
• Ability to manage a large volume of content projects
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail