What are the responsibilities and job description for the Event Manager position at George P Johnson Experience Marketing?
Our Opportunity
GPJ is hiring an Event Manager to support a high tech client.
This role is hybrid, requiring you to report on-site to one of the following office locations a minimum of 2 days/week: Austin, Nashville, Detroit or Boston.
Your Role
Successfully executing a crucial component of an event, such as Food and Beverage or Transportation, or handling a smaller-scale event has been a significant part of your role. For the scope assigned to you, you take an active role in overseeing the entire project lifecycle, from managing budgets and timelines to handling event logistics, financial management, production schedules for graphics and fabrication, timelines for vendors, and creative deliverables.
One of your primary responsibilities is nurturing the client relationship, engaging with them at an appropriate level, and serving as their main point of contact. You are also responsible for coordinating vendor activities and fostering strong vendor relationships. This involves ensuring clear and effective communication, obtaining quotes, making selections, arranging setups, managing purchase orders and deposits, and addressing minor issues that may arise.
As part of the process, you make sure to oversee the closing and reconciliation stages, ensuring that all loose ends are tied up and everything is accounted for. It's vital for you to have a deep understanding of and adherence to all the workflow processes established within your organization. This approach helps ensure a seamless and successful execution of the assigned event component or limited scope event.
Your Skills
Relationship Builder: Develop, maintain and strengthen partnerships with others inside and outside the client organization. Identify new stakeholders, manage client expectations, define new business opportunities and deliver against clients' needs while skillfully balancing the needs of the client and those of the agency. Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport,: builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.
Accountable: Be accountable. Demonstrate accountability. Hold yourself and others to a high standard of work, that includes following set processes, achieving deadlines and operating within control systems. Own both success and failures, without blaming others. Create a culture of accountability in your teams. Follow through on commitments by your actions. You set the example for your team.
Collaboration: Seek opportunities and take action to ensure effective collaboration with the GPJ internal teams, other Project agencies, clients and partners. If responsible for leading people or a team, model this behavior for the team and expect the same behavior from employees.
Solution Oriented: Even with tight project budget management practices, you focus on the desired outcome and are ready with multiple solutions in order to reach the end goal.
Your Experience
2-3 years experience: 1-2 years direct experience with event management.
4 Year College Degree; preferred in Marketing/Advertising/Event Management/Business Administration, Hospitality, Communications, or related field
Your Impact
In your role, you will have influence and responsibility over:
Who We Are
GPJ is the world leader in experiential marketing. Our 29 global offices are filled with fearless people dreaming up ideas that are transforming industries and bringing the most respected brands to life in powerfully, exciting ways. We are a part of the Project Worldwide family. An independent, employee-owned global network of complementary, wholly owned agencies.
You read that "employee-owned" part, right? You heard us correctly. You work hard, she works hard, we all work hard… we all succeed and reap the rewards. We have an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) – providing our employees with an ownership interest. We thought you would want to know that. In fact, there is a lot more you would want to know about us, like our FTO policy (no more "accruing" time off), our employer matching 401(k) plan (no vesting period), our "no employee contribution" healthcare option. But we are getting ahead of ourselves here, let's talk about this exciting opportunity first and we can fill you in on our perks & benefits later.
GPJ is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation and gender identity), national origin, citizenship, disability, protected veteran status, or any other protected class. In addition to federal law requirements, GPJ complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. GPJ expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on any protected class.
GPJ is hiring an Event Manager to support a high tech client.
This role is hybrid, requiring you to report on-site to one of the following office locations a minimum of 2 days/week: Austin, Nashville, Detroit or Boston.
Your Role
Successfully executing a crucial component of an event, such as Food and Beverage or Transportation, or handling a smaller-scale event has been a significant part of your role. For the scope assigned to you, you take an active role in overseeing the entire project lifecycle, from managing budgets and timelines to handling event logistics, financial management, production schedules for graphics and fabrication, timelines for vendors, and creative deliverables.
One of your primary responsibilities is nurturing the client relationship, engaging with them at an appropriate level, and serving as their main point of contact. You are also responsible for coordinating vendor activities and fostering strong vendor relationships. This involves ensuring clear and effective communication, obtaining quotes, making selections, arranging setups, managing purchase orders and deposits, and addressing minor issues that may arise.
As part of the process, you make sure to oversee the closing and reconciliation stages, ensuring that all loose ends are tied up and everything is accounted for. It's vital for you to have a deep understanding of and adherence to all the workflow processes established within your organization. This approach helps ensure a seamless and successful execution of the assigned event component or limited scope event.
Your Skills
- Has successfully supported one or more event components
- Builds and manages timelines (component of event or compiling for an event)
- Builds budgets/estimates (component of event or compiling for an event); manages/reconciles budget
- Understands and manages key financial metrics (for limited areas / scope with some guidance)
- Understands impact of changes on project budget and financial metrics (with some guidance).
- Understands and manages PO, reconciliation and invoicing processes (for limited areas / scope with some guidance)
- Ability to understand on-site methodology, practices and requirements, as well as show and venue rules and regulations (if applicable)
- Strong proficiency in Google and Microsoft Office software. Previous experience with ERP, Project Management software, or similar tool is preferred
Relationship Builder: Develop, maintain and strengthen partnerships with others inside and outside the client organization. Identify new stakeholders, manage client expectations, define new business opportunities and deliver against clients' needs while skillfully balancing the needs of the client and those of the agency. Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport,: builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.
Accountable: Be accountable. Demonstrate accountability. Hold yourself and others to a high standard of work, that includes following set processes, achieving deadlines and operating within control systems. Own both success and failures, without blaming others. Create a culture of accountability in your teams. Follow through on commitments by your actions. You set the example for your team.
Collaboration: Seek opportunities and take action to ensure effective collaboration with the GPJ internal teams, other Project agencies, clients and partners. If responsible for leading people or a team, model this behavior for the team and expect the same behavior from employees.
Solution Oriented: Even with tight project budget management practices, you focus on the desired outcome and are ready with multiple solutions in order to reach the end goal.
Your Experience
2-3 years experience: 1-2 years direct experience with event management.
4 Year College Degree; preferred in Marketing/Advertising/Event Management/Business Administration, Hospitality, Communications, or related field
Your Impact
In your role, you will have influence and responsibility over:
- Project Launch
- Strategy & Creative
- Fabrication & Graphics
- Estimating
- Management, Delivery & Deployment
- Change Order Management
- Invoicing, Financial Reconciliation & Closing
Who We Are
GPJ is the world leader in experiential marketing. Our 29 global offices are filled with fearless people dreaming up ideas that are transforming industries and bringing the most respected brands to life in powerfully, exciting ways. We are a part of the Project Worldwide family. An independent, employee-owned global network of complementary, wholly owned agencies.
You read that "employee-owned" part, right? You heard us correctly. You work hard, she works hard, we all work hard… we all succeed and reap the rewards. We have an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) – providing our employees with an ownership interest. We thought you would want to know that. In fact, there is a lot more you would want to know about us, like our FTO policy (no more "accruing" time off), our employer matching 401(k) plan (no vesting period), our "no employee contribution" healthcare option. But we are getting ahead of ourselves here, let's talk about this exciting opportunity first and we can fill you in on our perks & benefits later.
GPJ is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation and gender identity), national origin, citizenship, disability, protected veteran status, or any other protected class. In addition to federal law requirements, GPJ complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. GPJ expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on any protected class.
