Event Specialist

Cynosure Inc; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Cynosure Inc. is seeking an Event Specialist to plan and execute nationwide workshops, tradeshows, and internal meetings. You will coordinate with sales, creative services, and vendors to create promotions, manage registrations, and ensure smooth onsite logistics.

The role requires strong communication, organization, and attention to detail, with 3–5 years of event planning experience and travel up to 75% for peak periods.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• 3–5 years of prior events and exhibit planning experience; ability to manage multiple projects and shifting priorities.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute external workshops, internal meetings, and industry tradeshows.
• Collaborate with creative services, regional sales managers, and sales reps to plan and execute event promotions.
• Prepare name tags, marketing materials, manuals, confirmation packages, and registration lists.
• Maintain Cvent & Salesforce registration data; provide reports to cross-functional teams.
• Negotiate contracts with venues, vendors, and service providers.
• Travel 25% nationwide to manage onsite logistics for seminars and events.
• Manage event budgets and provide monthly numbers to Sr. Event Specialist.
• Coordinate all meeting logistics: manuals, literature, AV, catering, shipping.
• Keep product materials and presentations current with product managers.
• Maintain quarterly seminar and tradeshow schedule on the event website.
• Communicate meeting details to external and internal teams and speakers.
• Travel 50–75% as required for events.

Skills

Communication

Organization

Attention to detail

Multitasking

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Salesforce

Cvent

Wordpress

MS Office

PowerPoint

Job description

RESPONSIBILITIES:

The Event Specialist may be responsible for a wide array of nationwide tradeshows, planning and executing customer facing workshops and coordination of internal meetings and events. Provides preliminary negotiation and review of contracts and other documents and serves as the liaison between event registrants, attendees, sales representatives, vendors and speakers.The specialist must apply robust tracking and follow-up to ensure that all event details are managed and responsible for resolving problems and issues that arise onsite and available on-call for events not traveled to.

EDUCATION:

Bachelor’s degree required

EXPERIENCE:

A minimum of 3 to 5 years prior experience in events and exhibit planning experience. Previous experience working on multiple projects and changing priorities.

PERSONAL:

Excellent verbal and written communication skills.Highly organized and possesses good interpersonal skills.

SPECIFIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Plan and execute external facing workshops, internal meetings, and industry tradeshows


• Work closely with creative services, regional sales managers, and sales representatives to plan, create, schedule, and execute event promotions, e.g., e-Blasts, direct mailings, invitations and social media posts, tradeshow videos, etc.


• Prepare name tags, marketing materials, manuals, confirmation packages, registration lists, etc.


• Maintain Cvent & Salesforce registration data base and provide lead, attendee and registration reports to cross functional teams


• Negotiate contracts with seminar venues, vendors and service providers


• Quarterly travel to manage onsite logistics with venue and regional sales staff for seminars and other events (required travel for back-up and peak periods) Total travel: 25% nationwide


• Manage individual event budget with other team members for monthly reporting and report in numbers to the appropriate Sr. Event Specialist


• Coordinate all meeting logistics: management of manuals, literature, marketing materials, PowerPoint presentations, a/v, electrical, catering and shipping


• Work with product managers to keep product materials, promotional materials and presentations current


• Maintain quarterly seminar and tradeshow schedule to event website on main webpage


• Communicate meeting details to both external and internal cross-functional teams as well as our speakers


• 50-75% travel required, including overnight and weekends to events

SKILLS:

• MS Office Proficiency (Word, Excel and Power Point), Salesforce, Wordpress


• Cvent experience preferred but not required


• Superior written and spoken communication skills


• Must have excellent attention to detail and the ability to effectively multi-task in a deadline driven atmosphere

FUNCTIONAL EXPERTISE:

• Strong interpersonal skills


• Strong organizational skills


• Strong event planning and logistics experience


• Ability to work under pressure and tight deadlines in fast-paced environment

BEHAVIORAL AND INTERPERSONAL:

• Highly organized


• Problem solver


• Flexible and adaptable to change


• Analytical thinkerHigh energy