Clarion Events – Research Executive – Asia Pacific

Research Executive - Asia Pacific

2-6 months

Retail / eCommerce

$600 monthly

Clarion Events is a leading international organizer of conferences and exhibitions, serving 12 different market sectors. In 2008 alone, over 600,000 carefully targeted people visited our 100 exhibitions, conferences and seated events across Britain, Europe, North and South America, Africa, Middle East and Asia. Clarion Events has global offices across the US, Europe, Africa, South America and now Asia.

This amazing opportunity is to work within Clarion's energy portfolio in Asia: The Energy Exchange & Synergy. The Energy Exchange specialises in high level upstream & downstream conference. We have developed strong and long standing relationships with governments and all of the major oil and gas producers worldwide, ensuring our events consistently tap into the key issues affecting the industry .

Synergy develops and organises high quality international conferences & exhibitions for and in co-operation with the utility and energy supplying industry. Metering, Billing/CRM Asia, Metering, Billing/CRM Australia & New Zealand and Transmission & Distribution/Smart Grids Asia are some of Synergy's flagship events in the Asian region and have a excellent reputation.

Responsibilities:
You are confident and comfortable on the phone and will play an integral role in building and managing our world class database. This is a telephone based role and we are looking for candidates with outstanding telephone skills. You will be responsible for researching key senior level executive contact details to be added to our database for a variety of marketing campaigns. Full training will be provided on the database system and you will also be responsible for coding and refreshing all data. You have the sole responsibility of researching targeted contacts for the database and weekly reporting to the marketing manager on quantity and quality of data added to the database. You will be required to help on-site with events from time to time.

Qualities and Skills Required:

Students from the field of Business, Marketing, Mass Communications may apply

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

A friendly manner

Excellent telephone skills

Self Motivated with a Can-do attitude

Good time management - capable of meeting tight deadlines

Able to juggle multiple projects

Enthusiasm, drive & determination