Job Description

Events Operations Manger

Location: Remote

Duration: 18 months; potential to extend to 2 years

Pay Rate: Up to $89.50/hour (DOE) W2 and option for benefits

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:

• 10+ years experience in event management, proving a deep subject matter expertise at event operations - management, client or agency side, with preference in the sports, music or arts/culture sectors.
• Significant experience working closely with agencies, event partners and internal teams, including marketing, communications, FP&A and data analytics functions.
• Experience delivering globally integrated creative activations supported by brand, comms, media, and data strategy.
• A passion for creative excellence and craft in storytelling through multiple media types, both emerging and traditional.
• Experience applying first party data and consumer insights research to creative briefs and brand narratives that inspire creative.
• Proven leadership capabilities, building teams and workflows that enable communication across national boundaries, both internally and with event partners and agencies.
• Appetite for a fast-paced, collaborative environment and desire to constantly reassess and make the work better.
• Excellent written and oral communication, a keen visual sense, attention to detail, and ability to simplify is key.
• Degree preferred

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