Senior Specialist- Events

Summary

Join Experian as a Senior Events Specialist and contribute your energy, creativity, and fresh ideas to a successful, high-performing team. You will collaborate with client executives and senior leadership in a multi-project, collaborative environment. This role involves managing the complete execution and logistics of trade shows and partner/client events to achieve business objectives, working with sales and marketing to determine critical events, recommending sponsorship levels and staff attendance, and collaborating with event and marketing leadership and external vendor partners to ensure efficiency and results. You will also negotiate with vendors, manage tradeshow services, coordinate promotional aspects, create event planning materials, track budgets, stay current on industry trends, and provide onsite event support. This 100% remote position reports to the VP of Marketing.

Requirements

• 5 years minimum tradeshow support experience in a corporate environment
• Understand production requirements and timelines of tradeshow and event production
• Familiarity with tradeshow accounting and billing processes
• Experience working with a tradeshow display house to create and manage booth materials, promotional items, and marketing material inventory
• Project Management experience with the ability to collaborate with team members and work under tight deadline pressures
• Demonstrate initiative with the ability to act quickly and decisively with solutions to unexpected issues
• Experience with vendor relations, client interaction and stakeholder presentations
• Experience working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and successful execution of multiple events with opposing priorities
• Accountable with the ability to handle stress and last-minute, urgent requests

Responsibilities

• Manage the complete execution and logistics of trade shows and partner/client events to achieve business objectives
• Assist sales and marketing in determining which tradeshows and events are critical to meeting business objectives
• Recommend appropriate sponsorship level and staff attendance to ensure desired brand presence
• Work with Event, Marketing leadership and external vendor partners to ensure collaboration, standard procedures, optimum efficiencies, and results
• Help secure speaking opportunities at industry conferences and manage event plans for logistics, promotional items
• Negotiate with vendor/suppliers for best arrangements within budget
• Manage all tradeshow services and vendors needed per event: including event service orders, registrations lists, housing lists, audio visual orders, room set-ups, meeting materials and catering/menus
• Coordinate promotional aspects related to events, including creating and proofing content for virtual and physical event booths, website, event emails and other event materials
• Create event planning and training materials, lead pre-show briefings and implement follow-up for events
• Track and reconcile individual event budgets, ensure cost center chargebacks are made and provide future event budget estimates
• Remain current on industry trends, technology and share best practices to evolve our events program
• Support survey summary report development and other post-event metrics to identify success and areas of opportunity
• Support efforts to develop relevant event databases and mailing lists
• Provide onsite event support throughout the country

Benefits

• Great compensation package and bonus plan
• Core benefits including full medical, dental, vision, and matching 401K
• Fully remote environment
• Flexible time off including volunteer time off, vacation, sick and 12-paid holidays