Event Coordinator

FoodChain ID Group, Inc; Remote; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global food safety organization is seeking an Event Coordinator to drive event planning for the Technical Services division. This role focuses on managing events to create sales opportunities, requiring 2-4 years of event management experience and strong project management skills. The candidate should also be familiar with B2B marketing and marketing automation platforms, along with basic CRM knowledge. This position is remote and reports to the Director of Corporate Marketing.

Qualifications

• 2 to 4 years of event management experience.
• Demonstrated skills in project management.

Responsibilities

• Manage and run events based on the strategy developed.
• Handle communication with sales teams and manage event timelines.
• Collaborate for messaging and materials.
• Conduct pre-event and post-event evaluations.
• Maintain metrics across events.

Skills

Event management

Project management

B2B marketing

Tools

Marketing automation platforms

CRM systems

Job description

Event Coordinator – TSEA (Technical Services)

Location: EMEA, Remote

Overview

Company Overview

For more than two decades, FoodChain ID has been at the forefront of the New Food industry, providing expertise worldwide to navigate the requirements of an ever-growing demand for higher levels of transparency, accountability, safety, and sustainability. Our technical and business services include serving clean labels, food safety, and sustainability claims through offerings of Non-GMO Project verification, USDA Organic certification, BRC and SQF food safety certification, and more. Today, more than 30,000 companies in over 100 countries rely on our industry-leading solutions. The FoodChain ID vision encompasses nothing less than assuring the safety, transparency, and integrity of the global food chain, one client and product at a time.

About the Role

The Event Coordinator will extend FoodChain ID\'s growth by providing executional and oversight capacity for all events supporting the TSEA (Technical Services) division. The role will build on wider company learnings to transform events into significant sales opportunities. FoodChain ID has identified a tactical playbook for trade show execution. To implement the learnings, we require a role dedicated to event planning. The successful candidate will demonstrate knowledge of event management and skills in project management.

Responsibilities

• Manage and run events based on the strategy developed alongside the Growth Marketing Director and TSEA Division.
• Handle communication with sales teams and GMs, event timelines, budgets, subcontractors and resource/staffing allocation.
• Collaborate with divisional Product Marketing Manager for messaging and materials.
• Conduct pre-event team meetings for planning and post-event evaluations, with support from the communications/brand director.
• Maintain metrics across events, such as leads, cost-per-lead, MQLs, opportunity value, and closed-won sales value.

Experience

• Demonstrated skills in project management.
• 2 to 4 years of event management experience.

Additional Information

It would be advantageous, but not necessary, if you have experience with:

• B2B marketing.
• The food and beverage industry, agriculture or testing and certification services.
• Marketing automation platforms such as Pardot, or similar tools.
• Basic understanding of CRM systems such as Salesforce, including the principles of integration between CRM systems and marketing automation platforms.

Organizational

This role sits in the marketing team and reports to the Director, Corporate Marketing.