Senior Event Manager

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses and economies to thrive.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.

Job Description

Job Description

Visa is seeking a highly motivated Senior Event Manager to drive planning and execution of select Visa events. Reporting to a Director of Events, this role requires a customer-centric focus and a strategic mindset while managing the planning, execution, onsite management, and post-event reconciliation of select events. Responsibilities include:

• Being the key point of contact for assigned events. Leading planning meetings and communicating clear agendas and follow-up actions with project team and key stakeholders.
• Developing event project plans including strategy, goals, timeline and roles and responsibilities
• Managing the vendor and venue selection process in coordination with Sourcing and Finance teams. Communicate with chosen vendors and suppliers throughout the event planning cycle.
• Invoice and budget tracking. Escalating unforeseen changes to necessary stakeholders.
• Event design and audience experience development, working with stakeholders to determine needs and desired outcomes for event audience
• Hotel room block and venue management
• Manage run of show, content production, audio visual needs and vendors
• Attendee communications, registration management and mailbox management
• Mobile app development
• Onsite attendee management and badging
• Onsite execution
• Post event reconciliation, surveys and reporting on outcomes event success

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications
• 5 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelors Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD
• Experience: 6-8 years experience in event program management and operations

Preferred Qualifications

• 6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or 4 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD
• Demonstrated exceptional project management, organization and planning skills applied in a fast paced, multi-tasking environment
• Must possess a passion for events and in-depth understanding of how events engagement bolsters brand, drives regional and global business strategy, supports business objectives, and aligns with the overall marketing and communications strategy of a global organization
• Creative approach to development of event concepts – think outside the box – with a desire to constantly innovate and improve all event aspects
• Excellent communication, negotiation and relationship management skills, particularly with senior executive level stakeholders
• Experience with strategic meetings management software platforms
• Willing to challenge the status quo and look at things from a different angle
• Proactively bring forward new ideas and look for innovative solutions that help simplify processes
• Self-directed personality that takes a proactive, hands-on role in problem solving, decision-making, creating new procedures and innovating new ways to enhance existing processes
• Strong customer orientation. Look to deliver impactful and beneficial meetings for clients and attendees with a focus on quality
• Driven, self-starter with an ability to prioritize projects in a deadline driven environment
• Must be able to facilitate domestic and international meeting programs, as required. Job requires 15-20 percent overnight travel and from time-to-time overtime and weekend work

Additional Information

Work Hours: Varies upon t