Event Planner / Marketing Consultant

Outstanding long-term contract opportunity! A well-known Financial Services Company is looking for an Event Planner / Marketing Consultant in Charlotte, NC (Hybrid).

Work with the brightest minds at one of the largest financial institutions in the world. This is a long-term contract opportunity that includes a competitive benefit package! Our client has been around for over 150 years and is continuously innovating in today's digital age. If you want to work for a company that is not only a household name, but also truly cares about satisfying customers' financial needs and helping people succeed financially, apply today.

Contract Duration: 12 Months
Required Skills & Experience

• 6+ months of Marketing, E-business, Digital Marketing, Digital Platforms (i.e., Mobile or Social Media) experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work or consulting experience, training, military experience, education.
• Creation and delivery of hospitality and brand activation programs that reinforce the Client’s Brand, support the DSRI sponsorship strategy, drive business outcomes and maximize impact with customers.
• Manage day to day event planning lifecycle for sponsored events, conferences and activations including program development, event registration, ticketing, event communications, food & beverage, transportation, gifting, staffing, etc.
• Define execution plans and timelines for and drive the on-time delivery, successful delivery of all event components.
• Responsible for ensuring all governance, compliance processes and required systems are followed for all sponsorship hospitality assets.
• Communicate ticket and event availability and manage allocations across business units.
• Collaborate and consult with immediate team, key Public Affairs and Line of Business partners, Meetings & Events team and other key stakeholders to ensure events is managed effectively.
• Manage relationships with sponsored properties, vendors and other external partners.
• Budget management.
• Develop presentations and other documents for leadership independently and in partnership with other team members.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of events, conferences and activations in achieving business and brand objectives and identify appropriate performance measures, collect feedback and report findings.

Desired Skills & Experience

• Excellent organizational skills and ability to work on multiple projects at the same time.
• Strong communications skills, including the ability to effectively work in a highly complex organization across multiple stakeholder groups.
• Comfortable taking initiative and working independently with minimal to no supervision.
• Ability to prioritize work, meet deadlines, achieve goals, adapt to change and work under pressure in a dynamic and changing environment
• Highly motivated individual who with a collaborative work style.
• Ability to identify and provide solutions to problems.
• Experience managing sponsorship events, conferences and activations from start to finish.
• Have proven superior attention to detail, project management skills combined with program execution skills.

What You Will Be Doing

• Participate in or provide support for low complexity initiatives within Marketing.
• Review basic or tactical issues, policies, or procedures for which answers can be quickly obtained related to low-risk tasks and deliverables with narrower impact in Marketing.
• Receive direction from supervisor and exercise judgment within defined parameters while developing understanding of function, policies, procedures, and compliance requirements.
• Provide information to client personnel in Marketing.
• Reports to the VP, Hospitality on the Sponsorships & Brand Engagement Team and leads the planning, management and execution of complex sponsorship events and activations for Diverse Segments, Representation & Inclusion (DSRI) group.
• Responsible for creating enhanced brand experiences for our invited customers, prospects and consumers at 5+ sponsored events yearly.

You will receive the following benefits:

• Medical Insurance - Four medical plans to choose from for you and your family
• Dental & Orthodontia Benefits
• Vision Benefits
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Health and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Voluntary Life Insurance, Long-Term & Short-Term Disability Insurance
• Hospital Indemnity Insurance
• 401(k) including match with pre and post-tax options
• Paid Sick Time Leave
• Legal and Identity Protection Plans
• Pre-tax Commuter Benefit
• 529 College Saver Plan

Motion Recruitment Partners (MRP) is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Veterans/Disability/Women. All applicants must be currently authorized to work on a full-time basis in the country for which they are applying, and no sponsorship is currently available. Employment is subject to the successful completion of a pre-employment screening. Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under MRP’s Employment Accommodation policy. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.