- Owns the communication and logistics throughout the planning process
- Works closely with Events Activation colleagues to create opportunities for cross-firm collaboration in events
- Possesses knowledge of contractual language as it pertains to meetings and events
- Negotiates with vendors to achieve maximum value for the best product and services
- Oversees the event budget and ensures accuracy in developing estimates, working and actual spends
- Handles all event audio-video production from creative concept to final production
- Helps to develop success measures and evaluate all events again objectives, recommending areas for improvement
- Coordinates and leads the invitation and registration process
- Offers on-site supervision or transition as necessary
- Performs post-event duties such as expense processing, invoice reconciliation, evaluations, sharing feedback with Events Activation team, marketing colleagues, and other stakeholders
- Champions the BDO brand in all event marketing activities
- Other duties as required
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- High School Diploma or GED, required
- Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, or Marketing, preferred
- Four (4) or more years of marketing/event planning/administrative experience, required
- Experience working in the Accounting, Financial Consulting, Business Advisory and/or Banking Industries, preferred
- N/A
- Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office Suite, required
- CRM experience, preferred
- N/A
- Strong planning, managing, and coordinating skills
- Ability to successfully multi-task while working independently or within a team environment
- Excellent organizational and project management skills
- Active listener and interpreter enabling him/her to transform the client's thoughts into reality
- Ability to understand the context of the event and the type of guests attending
- Experience planning budgets, negotiating, and communicating with clients
- Critical thinker and problem solver
- Travel up to 20% of the time, as needed
Individual salaries that are offered to a candidate are determined after consideration of numerous factors including but not limited to the candidate's qualifications, experience, skills, and geography. National Range: $70,000 - $90,000 NYC/Long Island/Westchester Range: $70,000 - $90,000 Colorado Range: $70,000 - $90,000
Events Activation Sr Specialist - Denver, United States - DemandGen Internationa
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Job Summary:
The Events Activation team, as part of the Marketing Activation Center of Excellence (CoE), is a virtual center of marketing professionals with specialized knowledge delivering extraordinary results from strategy to consultation and planning to execution. We help our internal clients develop a clear vision for live and online events aligned with their go-to-market growth goals and personalized for their targeted audiences. We work to create seamless, signature, unforgettable BDO-branded experiences using proven marketing strategies and innovative ideas.
We aim for excellence by providing sound advice with a focus on quality and detail and we prove it every day with thoughtful and exceptional service. One client, one event, one experience at a time .
The Events Activation Senior Specialist is responsible for coordinating and planning exceptional BDO-branded live and online event interactions for our clients, contacts and prospects and driving and monitoring related activities with firm and account teams' business and go-to-market strategies. He/she manages the end-to-end planning and execution process for clients working with and leveraging team members and vendors for successful day-of delivery.
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