Marketing and Events Coordinator

The Marketing and Events Coordinator will work with the Marketing Manager to support the implementation of the marketing strategy to reach business objectives in addition to overseeing full-cycle event management from strategy to execution to evaluation. A successful candidate for this role is comfortable working in a fast-paced, creative environment and can multitask, prioritize and handle multiple projects simultaneously. The role will require travel for meetings as needed (projected travel: 30%+).

This position reports to the Marketing Manager and is part of the Lockton Northeast Marketing and Communications team.

Responsibilities:

Event Management:

• Responsible for all aspects of event management, including but not limited to researching and comparing venues, selecting menus, managing contracts, coordinating on-site logistics, and evaluating success post-event.
• Participate in strategic planning process to ensure event improvement, creative solutions and quality customer service.
• Assist in developing and managing budgets and support allocation process, as needed.
• Create and maintain event timelines and schedules.
• Develop and support registration process including event build, reporting, attendee correspondence, troubleshooting, and post-event analytics.
• Develop event communications and coordinate design and print needs.

Marketing:

• Support the implementation of the marketing strategy to help reach business objectives, collaborating with various internal stakeholders.
• Effectively coordinate the creation of integrated marketing materials, such as collateral, email campaigns, advertisements, and social media content.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in marketing or hospitality management is preferred.
• 3+ years of professional marketing experience.
• Minimum of two years of event planning experience preferred, ideally with working knowledge of the meeting/events management industry.
• Excellent planning, scheduling, negotiating, organizational and writing skills with experience in marketing communications and sales support.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a fast-moving collaborative team under tight deadlines, shifting priorities, and multiple projects.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to communicate point of view effectively (both written and verbal).
• Demonstrated ability to communicate project goals and objectives, project status and deliverables with team members and management, including senior executives.
• Ability to manage groups of people in a project environment and delivering results on schedule.
• Self-motivated, adaptable, and flexible team player.
• Advanced user of Microsoft PowerPoint, Outlook, Excel and Word.
• Advanced user of WebEx and Zoom meetings or similar platform.
• Eager and comfortable with learning new technology quickly.
• Knowledge of events planning software with Cvent, SplashThat or similar registration system experience preferred.
• Highly organized