Marketing Events Coordinator

JR United Kingdom; Greater London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic team as a Marketing Events Coordinator at an innovative company that simplifies travel experiences. This exciting graduate entry role offers you the chance to contribute to impactful events that enhance brand presence and customer engagement. Collaborate with diverse teams to ensure seamless event execution, manage budgets, and create memorable experiences. With a strong focus on continuous improvement and innovative ideas, this position is perfect for a motivated self-starter eager to make a mark in the travel industry. Enjoy a supportive work environment with a comprehensive benefits package and opportunities for growth.

Benefits

25 days annual leave

Hybrid working model

Pension contribution

Private medical insurance

Life assurance

Personal travel insurance

Bonus program

Qualifications

• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to network effectively.
• Proficient in project management and multitasking.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate planning and execution of events to drive customer engagement.
• Manage event budgets and logistics for successful outcomes.

Skills

Relationship-building

Analytical skills

Written communication

Project management

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Marketing or related field

Job description

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Travel obsessed? Big tech fan? Hey, you’re in good company. If you want to be part of the industry that makes the world go round, then look no further.

Travelport is the brains behind lots of your travel bookings- plane, car or hotel. Our technology is used to book that magical holiday, infamous bachelorette party or long overdue school reunion. While we can’t solve mosquito bites or lost luggage, we can simplify a lot of the technical parts of travel, and we’re looking for the best thinkers to help us do it.

We’re hiring right now for a Marketing Events Coordinator! Search for #Travelport on LinkedIn and hear from our amazing team.

How you’ll make an impact: This is an exciting graduate entry opportunity to join a small in-house events team to help drive our presence at third party events, tradeshows, and conferences in support of sales strategies and pipeline generation. You’ll be entrusted to help deliver on our own Travelport sponsored events that achieve high growth goals for customer attendance and engagement. The Marketing Events team sits in our Customer Marketing Organization (CMO) and engages across all CMO teams, as well as with the wider business.

You will be a key team member, contributing to the global events team by delivering memorable experiences that amplify our brand’s presence and connect meaningfully with our audiences.

You will engage with our CMO leaders/stakeholders and their teams. You will instill confidence through credibility, as you have a high “say to do” ratio and engage proactively. You will build a strong network, partnering to maximize impact and modeling the tenets of our brand, encouraging others to do the same.

Your role in action

Work collaboratively with teams across the business to oversee successful planning and execution of events in line with the annual event plan; help manage event budgets, work with vendors, and provide input on logistics, including booth design and build, venue/space selection, catering, audio-visual requirements, and event collateral (marketing materials, SWAG etc.) – ensuring the best price points are being achieved.

• Work with event team to create an immersive event experience, ensuring that employees, customers, and prospects receive optimal onsite support and engagement, and all onsite operational and administrative functions are well supported. Assist team in creating end-to-end visibility and overall coordination of event-related workstreams, especially pre-event execution (booth design and build, content, branding, sales engagement and readiness, and awareness through digital and social media) - and post-event execution, to evaluate event performance, commercial impact, provide post-event reporting and lessons learned to optimize future events.
• Travel to on-site events as needed to provide event support.
• Adopt a mindset of continuous improvement across all elements of event infrastructure to streamline process, collaboration, and execution - plus reporting on ROI and business value based on objectives.
• Stay updated on industry trends, competitor events, and best practices to bring innovative, fun, creative and resourceful ideas to enhance event plans and experience. Support onboarding of Marketing interns and other new hires into the function.

Could this be you?

• Excellent relationship-building and interpersonal skills; adapts style to suit situations and stakeholders. Able to network effectively at all levels and influence without direct management oversight. Strong analytical skills, uses data to derive insight and support recommendations.
• Excellent written/verbal communication, ensuring clarity; instilling confidence to bring desired outcomes. Demonstrated strength in problem solving and analytics and capable of driving insight to action. Engaging and effective presentation skills and strong project management, organization, and multitasking abilities.
• A motivated self-starter, proactive in improving processes and solving problems. A positive attitude, strong attention to detail, customer oriented.
• Desired – Understanding of Travel Commerce and a sound awareness of the external industry environment.

Travelport ID by celebrating our diverse workforce and creating a space that allows our team members to feel fully engaged within their working environments. Travelport ID’s global internal champions work together to create a space for an on-going sounding board that provides feedback regarding strategic diversity objectives within the organization to help create a more inclusive work environment.

Where do we start! Our benefits package includes:

We offer a package that includes 25 days annual leave per annum, plus Christmas working days (office shutdown), hybrid working model, pension contribution, private medical, life assurance and personal travel insurance. We believe all employees contribute to the success of the company and should be able to share in that success, which is why all jobs are eligible to participate in our bonus program with any payouts being subject to individual and company performance.

Search for #lifeattravelport & #travelportGDL for our employee stories on LinkedIn!

Your journey at Travelport starts here.

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We are an equal opportunities employer and will consider all qualified applicants purely on their skills and abilities. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation, if needed.