Events Operations Lead

Events Operations Manger

Location : Remote

Duration : 18 months; potential to extend to 2 years

Pay Rate : Up to $89.50 / hour (DOE)

Planet Interactive's well-known hospitality client is looking for an   Events Operations Manger to join their team! This role will be remote and is an 18-month contract.

The Event Operations Manger  brings strategic and operational rigor, a deep understanding of events, a natural passion for on the ground experiences and operations and incredible stakeholder management skills to deliver best-in-class activations that make the Brand shine across its Events portfolio. This person will be responsible for supporting and implementing event operations to establish the Company's activations across a variety of event partnerships, from sports to art, music and culture.

Responsibilities :

• Develop experiential plans and support experiences across a variety of event partnerships worldwide
• Collaborate across functions, markets and regions, to develop highly effective, design-forward, localized ideas for implementation.
• Gain cross-functional, event partner and leadership buy-in to deliver a creative, high-quality, impactful guest experience.
• Partner closely with internal cross-functional teams, event partners, and agencies to ensure operational excellence bringing our plans to life for our guests and event attendees.
• Deliver creatively excellent on site activations, including but not limited to : experiences and services on site, experiential venues, venue hospitality, support of on site media, social media, UGC and other various onsite amplifications, ensuring all activities feel local and personal.
• Conduct RFPs, build contracts and SOWs, support POs and ensure timely payments for execution across all assets involved, working closely with procurement, legal, and finance.
• Oversee internal teams and agencies, manage and track budgets, delivering on time and on budget.
• Work with finance and operations on budget forecasting and actualizing; ensuring timely SOWs and contracts with partners at all times; provide regular activity updates and reconciliations.
• Manage analytics and reporting for success of these activations working closely with event partners, data science and FP&A
• Conduct after action reviews on projects including results, lessons learned and best practices to global, regional and local internal and external partners, building learnings into improvements for future projects.

Qualifications :

Salary : $90