Event Manager

This role oversees all aspects of successful event execution at a range of event types, including in-person sales meetings, customer visits, and over 60 North America-based tradeshows. Event Execution & Leadership • Lead collaborative planning meetings to share information and orient other departments and 3rd party sales teams about upcoming events, onsite presence and expectations • Coordinate the event calendar, collaborating with sales leadership to ensure participation in the most impactful events within the designated budget • Utilize existing planning templates and documents and create new documentation and templates based on evolving event strategies • Work with broader Marketing team to identify strategies for maximizing our investment, focusing on driving awareness for upcoming events and managing lead follow-up processes. Vendor Management • Engage existing vendors on events to ensure they are appropriately involved in planning of events and onsite execution. • As part of this, establish estimated budgets up front and open necessary PO’s for vendors • Track monthly spending against PO’s and alert Manager of overages to expected spending • Work closely with vendors to ensure they are staying on budget and on-time with deliverables • Provide appropriate onsite direction for vendors when appropriate to ensure efficient onsite collaboration • Continuously monitor vendor partner quality and execution, and engage new vendors and venues for future events. • Experience working collaboratively with other internal departments to execute all aspects of events • Must be able to multi-task and demonstrate exceptional time management • Must be able to multi-task and juggle multiple events and deadlines, and thrive in dynamic environments that require rapid change • Experience working closely with remote teams and individuals, as well as those in the same location • Experience having been on show site, managing a role of an event and working collaboratively with an event team, either internal or external.