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Great Minds · 1 day ago

Senior Marketing Meeting & Events Planner

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Responsibilities

Oversee and facilitate various aspects of meeting planning from site selection, event registration, and post-event reporting.
Work on multiple national meetings, large-scale conferences and events.
Partner with Sales, Success and Product teams to create a strategy for every national event to maximize event attendance and ROI.
Nurture and build relationships with vendors and venues while crafting and implementing the creative and logistical aspects of all events
Remain current with trends in event planning, design, and production, and proactively identify and solve operational challenges with internal teams and vendors
Prepare BEO information with event venues.
Coordinate travel, lodging and expenses for participants traveling to meetings.
Develop and maintain relationships with exhibitors/sponsors.
Perform administrative tasks covering meeting preparation, supply ordering, packing/shipping of event materials, and data entry.
Create invoices and receipts as requested.
Track and code expenses for event budget reconciliation.
Create and analyze online evaluations and prepare post-event reports.
Other duties as assigned by the Enterprise Events Manager.
Evaluate event success and provide evidence-based recommendations to leadership for improvement for future events

Qualification

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Meeting planning experienceVendor negotiationCustomer service skillsBudget preparationProject managementCMP certificationEvent trends knowledge

Required

5+ years professional meeting experience (education experience preferred).
Experienced at negotiating and building partnerships with vendors.
Exceptional customer service skills.
Strong time management skills and ability to manage concurrent tasks efficiently.
Superior attention to detail; first class organizational skills.
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience (marketing, public relations, communications or related degree a plus)

Preferred

Up to date on current trends in the meetings industry.
CMP certified a plus.
Experience with budget preparation and maintenance.
Proven project management ability.
Innovative and resourceful; actively seeks opportunities to improve meetings and events.
High energy, positive, professional attitude, pride in work product.

Company

Great Minds

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A group of education leaders founded the non-profit Great Minds in 2007 to define and encourage content-rich comprehensive education.

Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage

Leadership Team

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Lynne Munson
Founder, CEO and Executive Director
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Ian Lotinsky
Chief Technology Officer
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