Events Manager

Events Manager

Meriplex Communications

Department: Marketing

Class: Staff

Report To: Director, Marketing

FLSA Classification: Exempt

Grade: ***

Work Schedule: Standard Meriplex business hours of Monday – Friday, 8:00am to 5:00pm.

Travel: Some travel required, willing to travel up to 25%.

Ramp Up: Approx. 4 weeks

Impact: The Events Manager is essential to executing marketing events and to maintaining Meriplex’s visibility, while seeing that all strategic marketing KPIs, ROI, and investments are met. Without this employee performing to the best of their abilities, Meriplex’s marketing team would struggle to execute on strategy, designated event budgets would be squandered, and all revenue resulting from Marketing events would be decreased.

Position Summary:

The Events Manager reports to the Director, Marketing and helps lead the event strategy for in-person conferences, summits, and market events while meeting strategic goals and budgets. This role is responsible for communicating with the Sales team and outside vendors to ensure event plans are executed successfully and responsible for being a team lead to the events team to meet goals and KPIs.

Key Responsibilities/ Duties:

· Execute and manage the overall event strategy for in-person conferences, summits, and market events.

· Manage the corporate events budget, including sponsorship, event booth execution and experience.

· Balance ROI and align spending to strategic goals.

· Manage all aspects of event planning, meeting strict deadlines and budget demands.

· Act as a team lead, supporting your own set of events while handling escalations of the event team.

· Execute webinar strategy including facilitating, sourcing speakers, and creating PowerPoint decks.

· Communicate with Sales Team and outside vendors to ensure plans are followed and met.

· Responsible for monthly event dashboards and reporting to show success of events.

· Troubleshooting and handling team escalations and bridge the gap between sales and marketing.

· Suggesting continual improvements to the event process.

· Utilizing automation to assist with events via email and mobile SMS.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Behaviors:

· Understand and execute Marketing concepts and fundamentals.

· Excel in a fast-paced environment, adapting to change quickly.

· Hunger to meet and exceed your goals through strategic planning and superior relationship management.

· Comfortable with highly visible funnel management and closed opportunities scorecard dashboards.

· Proactive nature to develop business opportunities independently.

· Proficient at handling escalated and/or elevated customer negotiations with professionalism.

· Excellent spoken and written communication, interpersonal, and relationship building skills.

Education/ Experience:

· 5+ years’ experience in event management / coordination.

· Event planning experience in local regional events and tradeshows.

· Previous experience with reporting on KPIs and ROI

· Project Management skills and detailed oriented.

· Passion for working in a high-growth, entrepreneurial environment, with the ability to demonstrate personal commitment and drive to set and exceed high standards.

· Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite of products such as Word with strong knowledge of PowerPoint; understanding of graphic design programs a plus.

· Clear and concise communicator.

· Team player and willingness to communicate.

· Excel in a fast-paced environment, adapting to change quickly.

· Salesforce Experience a plus.

This is an onsite role you must reside in the following city and states. All applications outside of these boundaries will be decline

Meriplex State Presence 

Texas - Dallas, Houston & Texarkana

Louisiana - Baton Rouge

Colorado - Aurora

Alabama - Huntsville

Indiana - Indianapolis 

California - Irvine, Camarillo & San Diego

Oregon - Portland

Physical Demands:

Sedentary Work – Exerts up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, a negligible amount of force frequently, and/or constantly having to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time.

Disclaimer:

The above information in this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.