A well-known Financial Services Company is looking for a Event Planner/Marketing Consultant in Charlotte, NC (Hybrid).
Work with the brightest minds at one of the largest financial institutions in the world. This is a long-term contract opportunity that includes a competitive benefit package! Our client has been around for over 150 years and is continuously innovating in today’s digital age.
Required Skills & Experience
- 3+ months of Marketing, E-business, Digital Marketing, Digital Platforms (i.e., Mobile or Social Media) experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work or consulting experience, training, military experience, education.
- Creation and delivery of hospitality and brand activation programs that reinforce the Client’s Brand, support the DSRI sponsorship strategy, drive business outcomes and maximize impact with customers.
- Manage day to day event planning lifecycle for sponsored events, conferences and activations including program development, event registration, ticketing, event communications, food & beverage, transportation, gifting, staffing, etc.
- Define execution plans and timelines for and drive the on-time delivery, successful delivery of all event components.
- Responsible for ensuring all governance, compliance processes and required systems are followed for all sponsorship hospitality assets.
- Communicate ticket and event availability and manage allocations across business units.
- Collaborate and consult with immediate team, key Public Affairs and Line of Business partners, Meetings & Events team and other key stakeholders to ensure events is managed effectively.
- Manage relationships with sponsored properties, vendors and other external partners.
- Budget management.
- Develop presentations and other documents for leadership independently and in partnership with other team members.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of events, conferences and activations in achieving business and brand objectives and identify appropriate performance measures, collect feedback and report findings.
Desired Skills & Experience
- Excellent organizational skills and ability to work on multiple projects at the same time.
- Strong communications skills, including the ability to effectively work in a highly complex organization across multiple stakeholder groups.
- Comfortable taking initiative and working independently with minimal to no supervision.
- Ability to prioritize work, meet deadlines, achieve goals, adapt to change and work under pressure in a dynamic and changing environment
- Highly motivated individual who with a collaborative work style.
- Ability to identify and provide solutions to problems.
- Experience managing sponsorship events, conferences and activations from start to finish.
- Have proven superior attention to detail, project management skills combined with program execution skills.
What You Will Be Doing
- Participate in or provide support for low complexity initiatives within Marketing.
- Review basic or tactical issues, policies, or procedures for which answers can be quickly obtained related to low-risk tasks and deliverables with narrower impact in Marketing.
- Receive direction from supervisor and exercise judgment within defined parameters while developing understanding of function, policies, procedures, and compliance requirements.
- Provide information to client personnel in Marketing.
- Reports to the VP, Hospitality on the Sponsorships & Brand Engagement Team and leads the planning, management and execution of complex sponsorship events and activations for Diverse Segments, Representation & Inclusion (DSRI) group.
- Responsible for creating enhanced brand experiences for our invited customers, prospects and consumers at 5+ sponsored events yearly.