Manager, Strategic Events

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Marketing & Communications

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Salesforce Strategic Events team is searching for an experienced Event Manager to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for day to day management of third party events including but not limited to general project management, agency management and budgeting. Reporting to the Director, Strategic Events, the this role will assist with ensuring operational excellence and success for pre, on-site, and post event planning.

This individual oversees agency relations and is the main point of contact for key stakeholders both internal and external. In addition, the role leads a large group of internal stakeholders to ensuring that the events run flawlessly. This position requires individuals who can work both independently and as part of a management team in making decisions important to the success of the events.Your impact and responsibilities:

• This role is responsible for project managing the implementation of third party event tactics
• Work with key stakeholders across the company
• Manage timeliness and accuracy of all event deliverables
• Work cross-functionally with internal business partners such as the Product Marketing team, Industry team, Creative team, Finance team, and the Legal/Procurement teams.
• Partner closely with our industry and cloud teams to ensure a flawless end to end attendee journey across our third party experiences
• Partner closely with our Creative team on booth creation
• Maintain an active understanding of internal policies and procedures related to list uploads, data privacy/sharing, and gifting
• Support management of meeting booking, staffing and registration
• Manage pre-planning for all on-site operations
• Collaborate with agency partners
• Manage complex budgets and sponsorship contracts
• Travel onsite to manage event execution
   

Required skills:

• 3-5+ years successful event registration, project management, operations experience
• Basic event management experience
• Highly organized and detail-oriented with exceptional project and time management skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to interact with leadership and Salesforce stakeholders
• Willing and able to work remotely
• Ability to thrive in fast-paced environment with complex requirements, competing priorities, and last minute changes
• Adept at working on multiple projects at once, setting priorities, working independently, problem solving, improvising, and functioning as part of a team that often must perform under pressure
• Self-starter who can prioritize workload in a strict deadline-oriented environment
• Ability to manage up on tasks and communication out to the team, know when to ask for help
• Willingness to take on additional tasks and roles with a “can-do” attitude
• Able to live with organizational ambiguity
• Ability to travel on site both domestically and internationally

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