Virtual Events Specialist

We have an outstanding opportunity for a customer-centric professional to oversee the production of virtual events, including webinars, webcasts, virtual user-meetings, and virtual tradeshows. You will work with multiple marketing teams in a global environment to help plan, produce, and execute virtual events.

Top Reasons to Work with Us

We are passionate about what we do We are a fast-growing Fortune 500 company Work with great colleagues Develop personally and professionally Use the best marketing tools available Make the world healthier, cleaner and safer

Core Competencies and Duties

• Plan, product and deploy a webinar, webcast, and virtual events for the Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry Division (CMD)

• Work hands-on in multiple platforms such as ON24, 6Connex, Webex Events, and CXApps to create, design, and produce virtual events.

• Responsible to help train event presenters, hosts, and moderators from multiple global regions on how to use the platform for recording, presenting, and managing Q&A.

• Coordinate support and technical aspects of virtual events with the Marketing Technology team and each respective platform provider.

• Work with our virtual event marketing strategist to align to customer-centric, consistent, and efficient templates.

• Manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment with great attention to detail combined with a strong desire to support pipeline generation.

• Leverage a PDSA model to implement new initiatives, ensuring a feedback loop is in place to iterate and improve the overall process, efficiencies, and performance.

• Develop effective documentation including scopes of work, project plans, scope documents, creative briefs, site architecture, and other related business requirements documents.

Skills and Experience

• 5+ years of digital marketing experience.

• 3+ years of hands-on webinar and virtual event platform experience, such as: ON24, 6Connex, Webex Events, CXApps, or similar.

• Minimum Bachelor\'s degree in related profession.

• Experience with live broadcast/streaming platforms and captioning/translating services.

• Experience with marketing automation programs such as Eloqua or Marketo.

• Exhibits superior communication skills; both oral and written, including persuasive, articulate, and concise presentation skills.

• Ability to work in a fast-paced matrix-based environment and ability to work on multiple concurrent projects.

• Work cooperatively and effectively with others to set goals, resolve problem, and make decisions that enhance organizational effectiveness.

• Assess situations to determine the importance, urgency and risks, and make clear decisions which are timely and in the best interests of the organization.

Additional Detail:

• Is this role temp to perm: Likely, but approval for temp-to-hire has not been decided yet.
• Assignment duration:12 months
• Possibility the assignment could be extended: Possible, but would need Tenure Exception.
• Position hours and days: Monday – Friday, 8:00 – 5:00 pm CST or EST. Will need flexibility once a month to meet outside of core business hours for NA.
• Interview process: One interview MS Teams
• What is the required experience that a candidate must have for consideration?
  • This role is 80% production, with 20% project management. The production is focused on setting up webinars in virtual event platforms. The PM tasks are working with Marketing/Marcom teams to ensure professional delivery of webinars.
  • Minimum 2 years experience with hands-on production work in ON24.
  • Additional experience in one or more of the following platforms are a plus: 6Connex, Webex Events, PGI, and/or CXApps.
  • Experience training presenters, hosts, and moderators in virtual event platforms.
  • Experience hosting or providing day-of support for webcasts/webinars a plus.
• What are the intangible skills you’d like to see?
  • Customer-centric approach and temperament
  • Experience working in a matrix environment
  • Can work independently
  • Can use insights to solve problems
  • Able to manage a high number of projects concurrently
  • High attention to detail