Senior Event Executive, Hospitality (Global Sports Sponsorships) (Financial Services Client)

Senior Event Executive, Hospitality

Responsible for planning and executing event and experiential marketing programs.

Love developing events and unique experiences? Are you passionate about hospitality and hosting? Love solving problems and bringing large-scale experiences to life? If so, this may be the right opportunity for you!

The Senior Event Executive will support a team in developing innovative hospitality activations for our client's Global Sports Sponsorships programming. You'll work closely with the Account Executive, Hospitality Manager and Account Director to support the program development, planning documents, and onsite execution of various upscale hospitality programs that are aligned across properties such as the NFL, MLB, and PGA TOUR! The ideal candidate will be able to work on multiple projects simultaneously, delivering a collection of hosting and hospitality experiences across a spectrum of sports, entertainment, and culture platforms.

Still with us? Cool. Because we need a star employee to join our team. The right candidate is one who thrives in a team environment, has a passion for learning and getting better every day, creating cool experiences, thrives in a dynamic pace, loves details and takes pride in doing what it takes to get the job done. You will be reporting to the Hospitality Manager.

The work you'll do includes :

• Help lead event planning, ticket management, onsite activation and post-event wrap-up for various hospitality programs
• Support day-to-day team functions to help the team succeed
• Manage communication with team partners and vendors
• Serve as point-person for on-the-ground activation
• Prepare and review important event documents including event guides, itineraries, meeting notes and post-event recaps
• Coordinate projects with vendors and internal Octagon resources
• Effectively facilitate communication between clients and partners
• Work with vendors to secure merchandise and other event services / supplies
• Become a trusted resource for clients
• Manage vendor payments and track program budgets
• Develop a knowledge and understanding of financial service client's sponsorship portfolio and business initiatives
• Additional projects as assigned, which may include : assistance on other events / programs, competitive research, POVs, property research, etc.

The bigger team you'll join :

Recognized as one of the "Best Places to Work in Sports", Octagon is the global sports, entertainment, and experiential marketing arm of the Interpublic Group.

We take pride in being Playmakers finding insightful, bold ways to create play in our work, our lives, and in the world. We believe in the power of play to create big ideas and unlock potential for our clients and talent.

We can put ourselves in the shoes of fans because we ARE fans of sports, entertainment, and culture at large. This expertise allows us to continually evolve the fan experience across sports and entertainment alongside some of the biggest brands and talent in the world.

The world needs play more than ever. Are you a Playmaker?

Who we're looking for includes :

This position pays $50,000, is overtime-eligible and comes with a comprehensive benefits package.

Octagon is proud to be an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.