Associate Manager, Event Management

Company Description
Dentsu Creative US is comprised of audacious thinkers and award-winning collaborators across the United States who blend local knowledge with global expertise. Choosing substance over stunts, our Modern Creative mandate is about unlocking sustained growth and holistic impact for brands in ways that Create Culture, Change Society and Invent the Future. Our borderless approach allows us to assemble the best talent around each brief, tapping into the expertise of the 9,000+ people across dentsu's global creative network. This integrated model also allows our talent to learn about and explore the breadth of career possibilities within Dentsu Creative.
Job Description
The Associate Manager, Event Management is an event specialist, local market expert, and is focused on the daily management of nightlife and retail consumer engagement programs in market. You will oversee the 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 implement controls, process, policy, and compliance is necessary . You will support all aspects of activity in market and will report into the Senior Manager, Event Management. We ask that you have prior sampling event and production experience. You must be comfortable working with the marketing and promotions of Spirits and Beer products.
RESPONSIBILITIES

• Recruitment, hiring and onboarding, and performance and financial management of part time and full-time employees.
• Manage staff pools to ensure primary teams support the volume and our needs.
• Follow standard operating procedures, policies, and protocols for issue resolution.
• Manage local warehousing with POS and special event asset coordination.
• Ensure coordination, kitting, and use of POS.
• Enter, maintain, and review event data in all relevant activation platforms; ensure all event reporting is entered into the online database.
• 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 staff payroll and expense processes and personal Travel and Entertainment expenses.
• 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 Brand Ambassadors for sampling and special events.
• Coordinate transportation and kit logistics of large event assets.
• Manage and staff on site production of local elevated/experiential activations.
• Audit events to ensure executional excellence and compliance with state sampling laws and local regulations.
• Knowledge and firm understanding of local state alcohol laws and regulations relative to state sampling laws and promotional activity.
• For quality control purposes, attend and evaluate events. Make recommendations to improve quality of events.
• This job requires on call and working some nights and weekends when event activations are being performed.
• This job requires travel within the assigned territories (schedule varies upon size of territory).

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in field/promotional marketing
• Promotional/marketing experience in Spirits and Beer
• Budget management skills
• Warehouse experience
• Must be 21 years of age and have your own method of transportation
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel (can maintain complex spreadsheets) and Teams

Additional Information
The anticipated salary range for this position is $51,000-83,375. Salary is based on a variety of factors including relevant experience, knowledge, skills and other factors permitted by law. A range of medical, dental, vision, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and/or other benefits also are available. For more information regarding dentsu benefits, please visit www.dentsubenefitsplus.com.
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About dentsu
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