Senior Manager, Event Management

Job Description:

About Dentsu Creative

Dentsu Creative is a global creative agency network designed to unlock exponential growth for clients. We use Transformative Creativity as a differentiating, driving force to bring our capabilities together to positively affect people, businesses and society. Dentsu Creative, established in June 2022, integrates with dentsu's Media and CXM businesses in over 145 countries and regions to offer Integrated Growth Solutions.

Job Description

The Senior Manager, Event Management is an event specialist and local market expert. You will manage a team and 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. You will report to the Director of Event Management.

The 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.

Responsibilities

• Supervisory responsibilities over direct reports- Ongoing recruitment, hiring 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 through program recaps, using data and insights for real-time measurement and evaluation, event strategies and project plans/ volume phasing
• Manage cross agency and in-market communications. Serving as a local contact for Clients and important partners
• Approve and submit payroll and expenses for part-time and full-time employees (where applicable)
• Process payments for invoices from vendor partners
• Manage, and following 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 staff on site production of local elevated/experiential activations; use 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 working some nights and weekends when event activations are being implemented.
• This job requires travel within the assigned territories (pace varies upon size of territory)

You will travel for in-person event attendance, to manage assets, and POS kitting and deployment at our warehouse 2-3 days a week. You must live in or near Phoenix, AZ.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in event management
• Budget management skills
• Knowledge of wine and spirits industry
• Source candidates to guarantee a match to the position/organization
• Proficient in Excel (can maintain complex spreadsheets), PowerPoint

Additional Information

At dentsu, we believe great work happens when we're connected. Our way of working combines flexibility with in-person collaboration to spark ideas and strengthen our teams. Employees who live within a commutable distance of one of our hub offices, currently located in Chicago, metro Detroit, Los Angeles, and New York City, are required and expected to work from the office three days per week (two days per week for employees based in Los Angeles). Dentsu may designate other Hub offices at any time. Those who live outside a commutable range may be designated as remote, depending on the role and business needs. Regardless of your work location, we expect our employees to be flexible to meet the needs of our Company and clients, which may include attendance in an office.

The annual salary range for this position is $68,000 - $110,400. We base placement within the salary range on a variety of factors, including relevant experience, knowledge, 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 providing