Marketing Events Manager
A cutting-edge telecommunication analytics company in Columbus, OH is looking for a Marketing Events Manager to join their team for a direct hire position. This is a hybrid position with 3 days working onsite. This individual is responsible for helping to build the strategy and fully executing the plan for assigned external events including tradeshows, sponsorships, hosted customer events, and occasional internal events.
Marketing Events Manager Responsibilities:
- Work across sales, marketing, product, and product marketing to ensure alignment with goals and strategy.
- Act as the lead for each assigned event, pulling the appropriate teams together for pre-planning and is the primary contact for all activation, logistics and execution.
- Work with product marketing to identify the goals and objectives for lead generation, brand awareness and customer/partner engagement to track to KPIs.
- Build the specific event strategy and plan.
- Create, manage and maintain the budget, tracking all deliverables by line item.
- Pull together the activation team (including product marketing, demand gen, media, PR, etc.) prior to each event as needed. Host regular calls with team, assigning action items as necessary. Follow up on all action items, review new deliverables, communicate goals and objectives, review event messaging and audience.
- Execute each individual event, activate on all deliverables, manage all logistics. This includes sponsorship deliverables, coordination for all graphics with product marketing and design team, appropriate collateral etc.
Marketing Events Manager Qualifications:
- Minimum seven (7) years of experience in tradeshow planning/execution working on large and small events.
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- Meaningful corporate event marketing and corporate marketing experience including on-site activation.
- Experience with Salesforce automation (Salesforce.com), Marketing automation (Marketo), and Event Management Software (Event Farm, Eventbrite).
- Laser focused attention to details, timelines, and budgets.
- Vendor negotiations and event evaluation experience.
- Ability to travel +50%.
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