Marketing & Events Analyst

Performance Foods; Englewood (CO); Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Day 1 health benefits

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

401(k) employer match

Education assistance

Paid time off

Job summary

Performance Food Group seeks an Marketing & Events Analyst to plan and execute trade shows, customer events, and internal meetings. You will coordinate logistics, manage vendor relationships, and ensure on-time delivery of materials and budgets.

You will support data-driven marketing initiatives, establish processes, and help optimize product-content for improved customer experiences.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a related field.
• 3–5 years experience in event coordination, marketing operations, trade shows, or project coordination.
• Strong organizational skills with ability to manage multiple deliverables and deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute trade shows, customer events, internal meetings, and conferences.
• Coordinate event logistics: registration, shipping, materials, signage, booths, vendors, onsite execution.
• Maintain timelines, checklists, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Manage relationships with exhibit houses, printers, suppliers, venues, and freight partners.
• Prepare post-event reconciliation and follow-up.

Skills

Excel

PowerPoint

Organization

Attention to detail

Communication

Vendor coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree in Hospitality Management, Business, Marketing, Communications, or related field

Tools

CRM systems

Marketing technology

Procurement systems

Job description

Company Description

Vistar customers are everywhere people work, play, and shop. Vistar is America's leading candy, snack, and beverage distributor with more than 25 distribution centers delivering everything from popcorn to healthy meal replacements anywhere in the U.S. The company has thrived by innovating, exceeding customer expectations, and fostering a collaborative culture built on teamwork, doing what's right, and giving back to the communities they serve.

Job Description

We Deliver the Goods

• Competitive pay and benefits, including Day 1 Health & Wellness Benefits, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, 401K Employer Matching, Education Assistance, Paid Time Off, and much more
• Growth opportunities performing essential work to support America's food distribution system
• Safe and inclusive working environment, including culture of rewards, recognition, and respect

Position Purpose

The Marketing & Events Analyst supports the Marketing and Meetings & Events teams, with a primary emphasis on the planning, coordination, and execution of meetings, trade shows, conferences, and other events. This role serves as a day-to-day resource for executional requests, helping coordinate internal stakeholders, outside vendors, event logistics, marketing materials, and event-related data.

Major Functional Responsibilities

• Support planning and execution of trade shows, customer events, internal meetings, conferences, and other company events.
• Coordinate event logistics including registration, shipping, materials, signage, booth needs, vendor requirements, and onsite execution.
• Maintain event timelines, checklists, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Coordinate with exhibit houses, printers, promotional-product suppliers, venues, production partners, and freight or shipping providers.
• Help ensure required materials arrive accurately and on schedule.
• Support pre-event planning as well as post-event reconciliation and follow-up.
• Manage executional tasks associated with the company's trade-show calendar.
• Track show requirements, exhibitor deadlines, registrations, booth specifications, shipping information, and vendor orders.
• Coordinate all trade-show marketing materials with the designated third-party vendor, including booth graphics, signage, collateral, promotional materials, product displays, production schedules, approvals, and delivery requirements.
• Maintain organized event documentation so information is readily available to Marketing and Meetings & Events stakeholders.
• Serve as a day-to-day resource for marketing requests requiring coordination, research, data, or executional support.
• Run recurring and ad hoc queries to gather, organize, and validate data needed for marketing initiatives, presentations, events, and reporting.
• Coordinate deliverables across Marketing, internal business partners, and external agencies or vendors.
• Assist with project tracking, purchase orders and invoices, supplier information, presentations, reporting, and other recurring marketing needs.
• Maintain marketing master data and support product-content records to improve completeness, accuracy, and consistency across customer-facing experiences.
• Support a best-in-class e-commerce experience by helping establish and maintain product-content and image requirements for product detail pages.
• Lead supplier-facing coordination for image-asset requirements, collection, sharing, validation, and follow-up.
• Review product images and related marketing content for completeness, consistency, and quality before use on product detail pages.
• Track gaps, exceptions, and supplier follow-ups, and partner with internal teams to improve product-detail page quality over time.
• Create repeatable processes, templates, checklists, and trackers for recurring events and marketing activities.
• Maintain accurate event calendars, budgets, vendor information, and project documentation.
• Identify opportunities to simplify administrative and executional work through technology and automation.
• Help establish consistent processes so the team spends less time reacting to individual requests and more time working from an established plan.
• Performs other duties as assigned
• Complies with all policies and standards

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Hospitality Management, Business, Marketing, Communications, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• 3 - 5 Years of experience in event coordination, marketing operations and reporting, trade shows, project coordination, or a related field.
• Exceptional organization and attention to detail, with the ability to manage many small deliverables and deadlines simultaneously.
• Strong written communication, follow-through, and comfort working directly with internal stakeholders and outside vendors.
• Strong Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills and comfort working with marketing and event data.
• Ability to operate in a fast-moving environment where priorities can change while maintaining accurate records and dependable follow-through.
• Ability to travel approximately 10% for trade shows, customer events, internal meetings, site visits, and other company-sponsored events.
• Physical capability to meet role demands, including the ability to lift and handle objects ranging from 20 to 30 lbs.

Preferred qualifications

• Background supporting trade shows, conferences, customer events, or internal meetings, including coordination with external vendors and production partners.
• Working knowledge of event platforms, project-management tools, CRM or marketing technology, procurement systems, and recurring query-based reporting.
• Demonstrated ability to manage budgets, purchase orders, invoices, event materials, supplier documentation, and post-event reconciliation.
• Familiarity with marketing master data, product information or digital asset management, supplier image collection, and product-detail-page quality standards.

EEO Statement

Performance Food Group and/or its subsidiaries (individually or collectively, the "Company") provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all applicants and employees, regardless of race, color, national origin, sex, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state and federal laws and regulations. Please click on the following links to review: (1) our EEO Policy; (2) the "EEO is the Law" poster and supplement; and (3) the Pay Transparency Policy Statement.