Senior Manager, Event Management

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Company Description

Audacious and award-winning collaborators who blend knowledge with global expertise. We apply creativity across every corner of our clients businesses - from creative, media, CXM, commerce and data. Our borderless approach allows us to assemble the best talent around each brief, tapping into the expertise of the 9,000+ people in dentsu's global creative network. We run towards the future, forever asking: what's next? Our imagination has no limits. Our clients seek us out because we believe there is no problem we cannot solve with the power the transformative creativity. This position will be focused on our DIAGEO client.

Job Description

The Senior Manager, Event Management is an event specialist and local market expert. You will oversee all pre to post event responsibilities, from planning and preparation to execution and reporting. Event elements will often include staffing, product sampling, consumer engagement, asset transportation, POS coordination, and production. This role will report into the Division Director.

The AZ Senior Manager, Event Management is a role that requires close collaboration with cross business counterpoints and serves as the primary client contact. We ask that you have prior sampling event and production experience.

Key Accountabilities

• Supervisory responsibilities over direct reports- Ongoing recruitment, hiring, training, and onboarding, and performance and financial management of part time and (if applicable) full time employees

• Follow standard operating procedures, policies, and protocols for issue resolution

• Manage local warehousing with POS and special event assets. Ensuring assets are available/ operable for activations

• Socialize success and opportunities via program recaps, utilizing data and insights for real-time measurement & evaluation, event strategies and project plans/ volume phasing

• Manage cross agency and in-market communications. Serving as a local contact for Clients and key partners

• Approve and submit payroll and expenses for PTE and FTE employees (where applicable)

• Process payments for invoices from vendor partners

• Preparing, managing, and adhering to local market budgets

• Manage activation schedule, event deliverables, run of show, and staffing/ asset needs:

  • Staff specialists/Brand Ambassadors for sampling and special events through company staffing application

  • Coordinate transportation and kit logistics of large event assets.

  • Manage and/or staff on site production of local elevated/experiential activations; utilizing a creative eye to bring Brands to life

  • Audit events to ensure executional excellence and compliance with state sampling laws and local regulations

• This job may require on call and/or working some nights and weekends when event activations are being executed.

• This job requires travel within the assigned territories (cadence varies upon size of territory)

• This is a hybrid role that involves working remotely for 3-4 days per week. Additionally, it requires in-person event attendance and working one day per week, or as needed, at our warehouse to oversee and manage asset and POS kitting and deployment.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in event management

• Budget management skills

• Knowledge of wine and spirits industry

• Effectively source candidates to ensure a match to the position/organization

• Proficient in Excel (can maintain complex spreadsheets), Keynote, PowerPoint

Additional Information

The annual salary range for this position is $68,000 - $110,400. Placement within the salary range is based on a variety of factors, including relevant experience, knowledge, skills, and other factors permitted by law.

Benefits available with this position include:

• Medical, vision, and dental insurance,

• Life insurance,

• Short-term and long-term disability insurance,

• 401k,

• Flexible paid time off,

• At least 15 paid holidays per year,

• Paid sick and safe leave, and

• Paid parental leave.

Dentsu also complies with applicable state and local laws regarding employee leave benefits, including, but not limited to providing time off pursuant to the Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act, in accordance with its plans and policies. For further details regarding Dentsu benefits, please visit www.dentsubenefitsplus.com.

To begin the application process, please click on the “Apply” button at the top of this job posting. Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis, and qualified candidates will be contacted for next steps.

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