Marketing Event Manager (PR26027)

Job # PR26027

Job Title Marketing Event Manager

Office Location Houston, TX, preferred

Business Function /Department Business Development/Marketing

Sales Territory, if applicable N/A

General Role Description

Lead the strategic planning, execution, and optimization of high-impact corporate, client, and industry events that support business objectives, brand positioning, and revenue growth

Role Accountabilities

-   Create and implement marketing event strategies to drive attendance and engagement

-   Lead and manage the full event lifecycle: concept, planning, logistics, execution, and post-event evaluation

-   Manage the annual event calendar aligned to business and marketing goals

-   Develop and manage detailed project plans, timelines, run-of-show documents, and prepare post-show reports for the BU and marketing leadership

-   Align marketing messaging, branding, and tactics with marketing management and secure approvals

-   Prepare and update trade show budgets, reporting to management as necessary

-   Define, measure and analyze event KPIs in collaboration with BU and other marketing team members

-   Manage booth fabricators/display companies, and other external providers to meet all agreed deliverables in line with agreed designs

-   Build strong relationships with trade show organizers to secure speaker programming in collaboration with internal subject matter experts and marketing management

-   Secure and maintain lead retrieval during shows

-   Monitor schedule, shipping, import/export compliance, and logistics for all marketing and trade show-related goods and services; resolve or escalate issues, as necessary 

-   Maintain booth schedule for BU use 

-   Coordinate with the Creative Manager to ensure sufficient inventory of approved promotional items for use at events

-   Ensure trade show inventory of displays, banners, and graphics are accounted for at all times

-   Ensure the full and timely registration of attendees who require assistance

-   Create and distribute an event handbook, providing a single source of information for each major event to all Company attendees

-   Plan and execute internal employee events as requested

General Employee Accountabilities

-   Bring full effort to bear on tasks assigned by manager

-   Give manager best advice

-   Give earliest notice when work cannot be delivered as specified

-   Cooperate and collaborate with peers and interact cross-organizationally as specified by manager

-   Exemplify Company Core Values: Integrity, Client Focus, Team Orientation, and Personal Commitment

-   Comply with all Company policies, practices, and procedures and all regulations and laws

-   Recommend viable improvements proactively

-   Ensure effective utilization of business tools and processes

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing communications, event management, or related field, or equivalent via education and/or experience
• 5 years' experience in marketing communications or marketing events role
• Demonstrated experience managing successful events and campaigns
• Demonstrated project management skills
• Demonstrated experience in vendor negotiation
• Demonstrated successful working relationships with clients, suppliers, and other internal and external contacts
• Demonstrated successful positive personal leadership, interpersonal, organizational, administrative, and communication skills
• Proficiency in MS Office Suite
• Availability to travel domestically, up to approximately 25%, and internationally, up to approximately 15%, sometimes on short notice
• Demonstrated continuous improvement in areas of responsibility

Preferred Qualifications

-   MBA or master’s in marketing

-   5 years' marketing experience in the power electronics or other capital equipment industries in any combination of the metals, material handling, renewable energy systems, paper, or related general industries

-   Proficiency in current design software, including Adobe Creative Cloud apps (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop)

-   Demonstrated experience with a foreign-owned business, preferably Japanese

-   Demonstrated experience in a dynamic, high-growth, global engineering services organization or industry served by the Company

Link to TMEIC Corporation Americas website:  https://www.tmeic.com/.  To be considered an applicant for any available positions, individuals must complete an online job application for each posting.  A resume may be attached to the online application but is not considered a substitute for the information in the application.  Applications will be considered only for the specific position for which the application is submitted.

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