Senior Manager, Event Management

Senior Manager, Event Management

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.

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. This is a hybrid remote / in-office role. This is a hybrid role and 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.

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 follow 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

Qualifications

Additional Information

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 :

To begin the application process, we will review applications on an ongoing basis, and we will contact qualified candidates for next steps.

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