Bloomingdale's Events Specialist

Bloomingdale's; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 52,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

Bloomingdale's in New York is seeking an Events Specialist to support the Director of Special Events with essential business administration to create impactful events and activations centrally and to elevate local programs to flagship and community stores.

You'll coordinate vendor pitches, budgets and cross-functional teams, maintain calendars, templates, recaps, and event listings across platforms, with hybrid in-office/in-store duties.

Qualifications

• 4+ years direct event experience.
• Strong communication, organization, and attention to detail.
• Excellent leadership, facilitation, and interpersonal skills.
• Flexibility to work on an event calendar.

Responsibilities

• Vendor event pitch deck creation and follow up to raise participation and funding.
• Event marketing support including templates, scheduling, cross-functional coordination.
• Organize and maintain central event calendars and masterlists for stakeholders.
• Create internal event templates, evites, handouts, and recap templates.
• Maintain event recaps, best practices, and a photo library.
• RIO.com event listings management.
• Support local event teams with sales data for major national events.
• Central budget support, recapping, and ROI analysis.
• MAS vendor setup coordination with business office.
• Eventbrite page creation and management.
• FedEx sign template management.

Skills

Event planning

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Leadership

Job description

About

Bloomingdale's makes fashion personal and fun, aspirational yet approachable. Our mission is to guide and inspire our customers to make style a source of creative energy in their lives. We will always strive to make Bloomingdale's like no other store in the world. Across all brand touchpoints-from Bloomingdales.com to our newest small store concept, Bloomie's-everyone plays a critical role bringing our mission to life. Our inclusive culture promotes diversity of background, thought and opinion. Regardless of position, we believe all colleagues have a voice and access to share their thoughts with every level of leadership. Our colleagues are passionate, driven, entrepreneurial and collaborative, while having a lot of fun along the way.

Job Overview

Events and activations are the heartbeat of Bloomingdale's with huge momentum and growing demand from both internal stores and external clients and vendors. The Events Specialist will support the Director of Special Events with essential business administration functions to support the creation of impactful events and activations centrally to ultimately flow through the stores organization. This role will support the central event strategy and will also help to elevate and expand local events to flagship, hub, and community store formats.

Essential Functions

Event business administration support, specifically including:

• Vendor event pitch deck creation and follow up to help raise participation, funding and engagement from key brands
• Event marketing support (fill out brief templates, scheduling, coordinating cross functional teams, reviewing conceptshare edits, sharing out to internal teams, vendor approvals)
• Organize and maintain central event calendars and masterlists for key stakeholders
• Create internal event communication templates, evites and handout templates, recap templates
• Regularly maintain event recaps, best practices, and photo library
• Rio - .COM event listings
• Support local event teams by working with merchant teams to help pull sales figures for major national events
• Central budget support/recapping/ROI
• MAS vendor set up support with business office
• Eventbrite page creation and management
• FedEx sign template management

Qualifications

• 4+ years direct experience
• Practices open and continuous communication, values keeping others informed, exemplary organization, attention to detail, and effectively presenting information in a clear, concise manner
• Excellent leadership, facilitation, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work across functional lines and at many levels.
• Ability to work a flexible schedule based on event calendar and Company needs

Physical Requirements

• Hybrid work model that includes in-office and in-store requirements
• Occasional support with event execution, which requires walking, bending, reaching, hearing and talking
• Occasional prolonged periods of sitting
• Continuous use of computers and other office equipment
• Occasional lift/move up to 25lbs

This job description is not all inclusive; additionally, Macy's, Inc. reserves the right to amend this job description at any time.

Macy's, Inc. - including Macy's, Bloomingdale's, and Blue Mercury - is an equal opportunity employer, committed to a diverse and inclusive work environment.