AbbVie · 22 hours ago
Senior Event Planner
Mettawa, IL
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$82K/yr - $158K/yr
5+ years expAbbVie is a company dedicated to discovering and delivering innovative medicines and solutions for serious health issues. The Senior Event Planner will manage strategic, operational, and logistical activities for meetings and events, ensuring alignment with business strategies and objectives while overseeing budget management and compliance.
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Responsibilities
The Sr. Event Planner is responsible for partnering with strategic business unit senior management teams to streamline the meetings and events management process, identify synergies and best practices across brands and therapeutic areas, and identify cost effective solutions to convention marketing
Utilizes tracking and measurement tools to determine the qualitative and quantitative effectiveness of expenditures across all therapeutic areas
Maintains, reports and forecasts annual brand meeting budgets
Liaises with the Compliance to track and monitor all compliance related expenditures and reporting requirements
Ensures the integrity of all HCP interactions at conventions and affiliated meetings in accordance with corporate guidelines and policies
Monitors vendor compliance with related policies and procedures, most notably those relating to regulatory and compliance of promotional materials and interactions with HCPs
Communication and enforcement of International Congress/Event Guidelines where applicable
Serves as program lead for national and global meeting/event programs
Cross collaboration with marketing brand stakeholders, financial controllers, procurement, and vendor partners
Liaises with cross functional stakeholders to determine program synergies/opportunities and deliver consist service and messaging across all convention programs Research and recommend efficiencies in logistics, technologies, procedures, and/or industry related solutions
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in business, communication, organizational leadership or related field of study and 5+ years of work experience
Exceptional leadership skills and demonstrated success managing both small and large scale projects
Strong negotiation and analytical skills
Excellent people and communication skills, ability to operate in a cross-cultural and complex matrix environment, and ability to build consensus across functions without direct authority
Analytical and forward thinker, results oriented, self-organized and self-starter
Results-oriented with a proven track record of results
Adaptable & change agent in an evolving environment
Preferred
Convention planning experience preferred – including staff & vendor management experience
Benefits
Paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick)
Medical/dental/vision insurance
401(k)
Company
AbbVie
AbbVie is a biopharmaceutical company focused on immunology, oncology, neuroscience, virology, and aesthetics. It is a sub-organization of AbbVie.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$15B2024-02-27Post Ipo Debt· $15B
2023-03-08Post Ipo Equity· $0.25M
2012-12-20IPO
Leadership Team
Robert Michael
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
Micah Bregman
Vice President, Global Strategy and Pipeline, Allergan Aesthetics
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