Senior Event Manager

TalentBurst; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in San Francisco is seeking a Senior Event Manager to oversee internal events and conferences. This role involves project management, vendor coordination, and ensuring successful event execution. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in event management, excellent communication skills, and a passion for creating engaging experiences.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in event program management and operations.

Responsibilities

• Overseeing project meetings and communicating clear agendas.
• Developing event project plans including strategy, goals, and timelines.
• Managing attendee communications and registration.

Skills

Project Management

Organization

Communication

Negotiation

Creativity

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

Title: Senior Event Manager
Location: San Francisco, CA 94158 (Hybrid – 3 days onsite)
Duration: 9+ months

Job Description:
Client is seeking a Senior Event Manager to support select Client internal events, including employee engagement events and internal conferences. Reporting to the Director of Internal Events, this role requires an organized individual that is comfortable acting as a project manager for event and operational workstreams such as registration, vendor management and overall event execution.

Responsibilities include:

• Acting as the event or workstream lead for assigned projects. Overseeing project meetings and communicating clear agendas and follow-up actions with project team and key stakeholders
• Developing event project plans including strategy, goals, metrics, timeline and roles and responsibilities
• Invoice and budget tracking. Escalating unforeseen changes to necessary stakeholders.
• Event design and audience experience development, working with stakeholders to determine needs and desired outcomes for event audience
• Hotel room block and venue management
• Attendee communications, registration management and mailbox management
• Mobile app development
• Onsite delivery and execution
• Post event reconciliation, surveys and reporting

Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor's Degree
• Experience: 6+ years of experience in event program management and operations

Successful Candidate Qualities:

• Demonstrated exceptional project management, organization and planning skills applied in a fast paced, multi-tasking environment
• Must possess a passion for events and in-depth understanding of how events engagement bolsters brand
• Creative approach to development of event concepts – think outside the box – with a desire to constantly innovate and improve all event aspects
• Excellent communication, negotiation and relationship management skills, particularly with senior executive level stakeholders
• Proactively bring forward new ideas and look for innovative solutions that help simplify processes
• Self-directed personality that takes a proactive, hands-on role in problem solving, decision-making, creating new procedures and innovating new ways to enhance existing processes

• Strong customer orientation. Look to deliver impactful and beneficial meetings for clients and attendees with a focus on quality
• Driven, self-starter with an ability to prioritize projects in a deadline driven environment
• Must be able to facilitate domestic and international meeting programs, as required. Job requires 15 percent overnight travel

Screening Questions:

• Tell us about the last event that you planned. What was your role?
• Do you have experience leading a team of people to produce an event?
• With the events you've managed recently, did you have agency support or were you managing operations yourself?

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