Events and Meetings Manager

Solutions driven success.

XPO is a top ten global provider of transportation services, with a highly integrated network of people, technology and physical assets. At XPO Logistics, we look for employees who like a challenge and can communicate effectively in all situations. We want to leverage your skills and years of experience to drive positive results while ensuring a bright future for yourself and XPO. If you're looking for a growth opportunity, join us at XPO.

As the Events and Meetings Manager, you'll support the Sales team with coordination of successful events for industry conferences, customer events and internal meetings. You'll manage conference pre and post activities and provide updated activity and opportunity from Salesforce CRM campaigns.

Pay, benefits and more.

We are eager to attract the best, so we offer competitive compensation and a generous benefits package, including full health insurance (medical, dental and vision), 401(k), life insurance, disability and the opportunity to participate in a company incentive plan.

What you'll do on a typical day:

• Maintain Salesforce CRM campaigns for all Sales Operations conferences and activities.
• Pursue campaign activity with individual customer account owner to ensure visible ROI
• Ownership of Salesforce Marketing Cloud Communication Platform (pre-post event HTML communication)
• Partner with customer account owner and Strategic Sales Analysis Teamon development of customer profiles to include quality data and meeting objectives
• Demonstrates attention to detail
• Identifies and resolves problems
• Writes clearly and informatively. Edits work for spelling and grammar
• Presents organized and thorough information and data appropriate for intended audience.
• Utilizes variety of interpersonal styles and communication methods to effectively adapt to new work structures, processes, or cultures
• Demonstrates follow-up skills
• Provides timely and professional support to all internal/external customers and vendors.
• Prioritizes regular workload, special tasks and concurrent projects, allocating time and resources to ensure that work is completed accurately and efficiently within established timelines
• Works with minimal supervision
• Establishes and maintains effective, collaborative work relationships both internally and externally

What you need to succeed at XPO:

At a minimum, you'll need:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent related work or military experience
• 5 or more years of event planning experience in an agency or corporate setting
• Knowledge of typography, proofreading, layout, document formatting, desktop publishing, page layout and publication styles
• Knowledge of various software packages such as InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Acrobat, Flash, PowerPoint and Excel

It'd be great if you also have:

• Bachelor's degree in Event Management or related area
• Demonstrates ability to create complex formulas in MS Excel; create queries in company software applications

Be part of something big.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, disability, veteran or other protected status.

All applicants who receive a conditional offer of employment may be required to take and pass a pre-employment drug test.

The above statements are not an exhaustive list of all required responsibilities, duties and skills for this job classification.

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