Description:
What will your typical day look like?
Working alongside another Senior Manager, you will oversee the National Events portfolios. Relationship building, strategic advisement and creative thinking are at the core of what you will do.
You will be responsible for the resource planning, escalations, approvals and advisement on a series of events that happen throughout Canada as part of this portfolio.
About The Team
The national events team is comprised of coordinators, specialists, senior specialists and managers throughout the country.
Our team plans and executes all events for our National Relationship Office (NRO) programs, campus events and sponsorships and manages event technology and operations.
Enough About Us, Let’s Talk About You
We are looking for someone who has
- The expertise required to manage and oversee all events hosted by the NRO and our Campus Events and Sponsoships
- Partner closely with a manager to shape and evolve the support model for the NRO portfolio, including educating leaders on how the team supports the business and adapting processes as needed to meet changing needs.
- The ability to independently plan and execute a series of events within the NRO portfolio. Planning duties include
- Venue and supplier selection
- Cost projection and budget analysis
- Registration and post event reporting
- Catering and menu arrangements
- Room set up including furniture and decor rentals
- Audio visual order, show flow creation and rehearsal support
- Transportation arrangements (air and ground)
- Hotel room block management
- Onsite support
- Assist the other Senior Manager in the day to day management of the team including process improvement and team engagement
- Co-lead annual fiscal and resource planning
- Ability to lead process improvement and other projects assigned by the Director, Events & Hospitality
In this role the expected qualifications are:
- 7-10 years of professional experience in event management in a corporate setting
- A minimum of 5+ years of people leadership. Remote management an asset.
- Ability to mange up and work closely with senior leadership
- Track record of strong vendor and supplier management
- Post-secondary degree/diploma in Event Management, hospitality or another related program
- Proficiency in Cvent and prior experience with other event platforms and technologies
- Proven experience with overseeing resourcing and project assignment
- Excellent MS Office skills, with advanced Microsoft Excel knowledge and general reporting/data management skills.
- Extremely detail-oriented, proactive, with the ability to maintain accuracy while managing multiple, concurrent projects with timelines.
- Ability to travel for onsite event execution and work outside of business hours
- Due to the nature of the role having interactions with National, bilingualism in French and English is an asset for this role.