Senior Manager, Event Management

Company Description

Part of Dentsu International, Dentsu Creative is a Global Creative Network that transforms brands and businesses through the power of Modern Creativity. 9,000 experts across the globe work together to deliver ideas that Create Culture, Shape Society and Invent the Future. Dentsu Creative was launched in June 2022 to address a client need for simplicity and is Dentsu International’s sole creative network.

Job Description

The Senior Manager, Event Management is an event specialist and local market expert. You will oversee the 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 Regional Director.

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

UPDATED 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 submits payroll and expenses for part time and full time employees (where applicable).

• 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.

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

• Process payments for invoices from vendor partners.

• Preparing, managing, and adhering to local market budgets.

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

• 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).

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in event management.

• Budget management skills.

• Effective communication and problem solving skills.

• Excellent presentation and effective training experience preferred.

• Self-starter with an entrepreneurial spirit.

• Strong leadership and organizational 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), PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, Teams.

Additional Information

The anticipated base salary range for this position is $59,000 - $96,025. Salary is based on a range of factors including relevant experience, knowledge, skills, other job-related qualifications, and geography. Additionally, this position is eligible for discretionary incentive compensation. Our incentive compensation plan is subject to change. A range of medical, dental, vision, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and/or other benefits also are available. For more information about dentsu benefits, please visit dentsubenefitsplus.com  

Dentsu (the "Company") is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee of the Company, on the basis of age, sex, sexual orientation, race, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, national origin, alienage or citizenship, disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other legally-recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances. Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the terms of the Americans with Disabilities Act and/or certain state or local laws. A reasonable accommodation is a change in the way thing