POSITION SUMMARY:
The Events Coordinator helps deliver on the business priorities by producing corporate trade shows, virtual events, mobile showroom activities, sales meetings, and other events to ensure all aspects run smoothly and meet the goals established for the event. Your passion is to deliver a best-in-class experience for current and future customers through cross collaboration with internal teams, including the planning and promotion of our events. To be successful in this role, you should have hands-on experience in event coordination and planning of all types. The ideal candidate will be a self-starter and have excellent organizational and time-management skills.
POSITION DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Collaborates with Marketing and Sales to plan and produce events that reflect our brand, thought leadership, and solution offering
- Works together with Marketing and Sales to create properties to support events, both physical and virtual
- Collaborate with Marketing and Sales to develop marketing and promotional materials to support events, with the purpose of educating and informing the audience, to increase exhibit visits
- Prepares and communicates a schedule of events, for both in-person and online tradeshows, sales meetings, and seminars
- Researches and identifies events that help facilitate company goal achievement, and secures space that best fits the needs for event success
- Coordinates with suppliers to produce needed structures and demonstration equipment for both in-person and virtual events, working within established budgets
- Provides pre and post event support for onsite and online execution and management of events
- Arranges event staffing, including event registration, housing, communications, and staff education about event plans and goals
- Coordinates materials shipments for events
- Collaborates with Marketing and management to update and maintain our corporate showroom with high functioning exhibits and presentations that provide visitors an engaging experience reflecting our brand, thought leadership, and solution offering
- Increases knowledge of trends in experiential marketing in the industrial automation space for continuous improvement of and increased traffic to our exhibit spaces and experiences
SUPERVISORY / MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES
TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS
- 20% - 25% travel within the Americas
BENEFICIAL EDUCATION, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- Knowledge of industrial automation industry is a plus
PHYSICAL, ENVIRONMENTAL, COGNITIVE REQUIREMENTS
- Ability to sit at a computer terminal for an extended period of time.
- Ability to organize and prioritize working activities (flexibility).
- Ability to execute logical reasoning and decision-making skills.
- Ability to communicate clearly and present information to diverse groups effectively.
- Ability to stand for prolonged periods (50% of the time or more) when on-site for events
Required Skills
Required Experience
ESSENTIAL EDUCATION, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- Ability to work in a fast paced environment across various business units while juggling multiple deadlines
- Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills with an ability to communicate at all levels within the organization
- Excellent organizational and planning skills, project management
- Bachelors in Marketing or similar degree, or equivalent experiential marketing experience
- 3+ years of experience in trade show or event management
- Ability to travel to events. Travel will be scheduled in advance.
- Excellent communication skills, both oral and written Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and Adobe Acrobat