Event Marketing Specialist

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Newcom Media is seeking an Event Marketing Specialist to focus on driving registrations, maximizing attendee turnout and enhancing engagement for trade shows, conferences and webinars. The successful candidate can blend traditional marketing and digital strategies to ensure high visibility and attendance, create promotional critical paths and manage attendee communication from invitation to follow-up. The Content Solutions team is part of Newcom Media’s Creative Services department.

Start Date: September

Location: Etobicoke, ON

Newcom Media Inc. follows a hybrid work model, where the team works remotely part of the week and the remainder of the week in the office.

• 3 weeks of paid vacation in your first year
• All statutory holidays
• Extra half-day off before most long weekends
• Group RRSP program matching up to 5% of your annual salary
• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits, including:
• Up to $500/year for paramedical practitioners
• Life insurance coverage equal to your annual salary
• Up to 90% coverage for basic and preventive dental
• $250 vision care every two years
• Access to a full Employee Assistance Program
• Hybrid work model (Tuesdays and Wednesdays in the Toronto office, next to Kipling Station)
• Opportunities for industry travel, networking, and professional growth

• Campaign Critical Path: Develop and execute marketing plans to promote trade shows, conferences and webinars through email, social media, digital ads, website updates, and direct marketing.
• Attendance Tracking & Engagement: Monitor registration data, implement follow-up strategies to encourage attendance, and analyze user engagement to refine tactics
• Relationship Management: Coordinate with show managers, sales and editorial teams to identify potential attendees, sponsors, and key stakeholders.
• Cross‑Functional
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Collaborate with Newcom Media’s shared services team (Audience Development, AdOps, Web Ops, Creative, and Video) to coordinate workflows and move work between teams, includes submitting job tickets through You Track.
• Creative & Content Development: Coordinate (and on occasion create) promotional materials including email campaigns, social media graphics, web banners, event signage, digital ads and attendee communications while ensuring brand consistency across all channels.
• Website & Email Marketing: Update and maintain event websites and landing pages with timely event, speaker, sponsor and registration information. Support email marketing initiatives including list management, scheduling, testing and deployment.
• Social Media & Digital Promotion: Coordinate and schedule social media campaigns across key platforms to increase event awareness, attendee engagement and registration conversion.
• On‑Site Event Support: Provide onsite marketing support during events, including attendee engagement initiatives, sponsor activations, promotional material coordination, signage oversight and live content capture.
• Post‑Event Analysis: Evaluate campaign performance and generate reports to improve future event success, including attendee insights, email performance, website analytics and registration conversion metrics.

• Experience: 3+ years of experience in marketing or event planning
• Communication
  
  Skills:
  
  Excellent written and verbal communication skills for creating promotional copy and maintaining professional relationships.
• Technical Proficiency: Proficient in Microsoft Office; social media platforms, scheduling tools, and analytics;
  Google Ads/Analytics; SEO tools and best practices to drive traffic; email marketing best practices; project management tools (e.g. You Track), design tools (e.g. Canva), experience updating website CMS
• Digital Marketing Knowledge: Strong understanding of email marketing, social media marketing, website content management, digital advertising and audience engagement strategies.
• Data Analysis: Ability to analyze audience demographics, campaign performance and registration trends to optimize marketing efforts.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree…