Prescient

Cape Town, Western Cape

Permanent

Closing Date 29 May 2026

Job Description

Purpose of role:
To deliver industry-leading events, client engagements, and sponsorship initiatives that align with Prescient’s business and marketing objectives, ensuring every event delivers on relevant brand and client experience standards across face-to-face and virtual formats.

Duties and responsibilities:

Core Duties & Responsibilities (Events and Brand Delivery)

1) Plan and deliver strategic events and client engagements

• Conceptualise (where relevant), plan, manage, and coordinate logistics for client engagements and events (in-person and virtual) across the Group.
• Create detailed event briefs (objective, requirements, budget, sponsor/key contact) and provide conceptual/creative guidance to internal teams and external suppliers.
• Ensure events deliver on Prescient brand and client experience standards.
• Critically evaluate how each event fits into the marketing strategy and ensure it adds value to business objectives.
• Source and recommend suitable venues where applicable; coordinate suppliers to deliver high-quality outputs.

2) Budgeting, governance, and post-event reporting

• Prepare detailed budgets, secure approvals, and provide post-event budget reconciliation and analysis with key learnings for future improvement.
• Manage the invitation process, monitor and report on RSVPs, and capture attendee information relevant to event logistics (with strong attention to detail).

3) Sponsorships + industry event management (Group-wide)

• Act as the primary contact for strategic industry events and sponsorship participation across entities, including managing deadlines for branded materials, business information, and payments.
• Coordinate with marketing teams and business stakeholders to create/source brochures, video, and branded materials required for sponsorships and industry events; brief external service providers when needed.

4) Brand-aligned collateral, gifting, and promotional items

• Procure promotional and branded items aligned with Prescient brand standards.
• Build and manage a supplier network.
• Stay current on new gifting concepts; manage stock and monthly recharge where required.

5) Internal events and marketing team support

• Provide logistical support for internal marketing events and strategy sessions (room/venue bookings, guest speakers, Group year-end events, etc.).
• Update and circulate the corporate events calendar regularly.
• Support marketing overflow projects and administration; contribute to the conceptualisation and execution of end-to-end marketing campaigns where needed.

Required experience:

• Minimum 4 years’ experience in an Events Specialist / Events Planning role within financial services (or closely comparable professional services environment).
• Experience implementing and managing global in-person and virtual events.
• A valid driver’s licence is essential for this role, as travel is required.

Required Qualifications:

• Marketing-related qualification (National Diploma / Degree).

Key competencies:

• Exceptional attention to detail and accuracy.
• Ability to turn events into marketing “moments”: pre-event awareness, during-event storytelling, and post-event follow-through (content and relationship momentum).
• Strong instinct for brand detail: look/feel, tone, guest experience, and consistency across touchpoints.
• Comfortable collaborating with digital marketing, design to brief assets and ensure approvals/sign-off are tight.
• Ownership mentality: accountable for delivering high-quality outcomes.
• Proactive, takes initiative, proposes creative solutions.
• Creative and conceptual thinker; curious and ideas-driven.
• Highly organised with strong time management; can work independently and in a team.
• Strong communication skills and stakeholder management; able to build strong working relationships.
• Builds technical knowledge of business units and clients to improve event relevance and execution.

Values & Behaviours (aligned to Prescient’s expectations for the role)

• Be Exceptional (resilient, high standards, delivers results).
• Build Trust (thorough, long-term thinking, certainty-led execution).
• Instil Accountability (responsible, team-minded, inspires follow-through).

Why this role:

A key role delivering strategic global industry events, client engagements, and sponsorship initiatives for a leading financial services business with real influence on brand and client experience.