Senior Manager, Meetings & Events

Why Turtle?

Are you looking to join a growing team of dedicated, driven, and passionate people who emphasize a work environment based on respect, collaboration, and diversity?

At Turtle, you will play a key role in our goal to listen, learn, and be helpful to every customer in need. With over 900 employees, spanning across the US, Canada, Mexico, and Puerto Rico, you believe that our people are our most valuable assets. Through our culture of innovation, education, and accountability, you ensure to create a space where Everyone Matters. We believe that EVERYONE can do extraordinary things and our mission is to create a workplace that empowers our employees to be successful. It explains why our history spans 100 years and has led our standing as one of the nation’s largest independent electrical industrial distributors. You believe that by making the right choices, you can find the right solutions. That’s how we built our past. That’s how we’ll build our future.

Turtle is seeking a Senior Manager, Meetings & Events to work out of our Clark, NJ office, remote, and travel to meetings and events on a regular basis.

About the Role

What You’ll Do:

• Develop, plan, manage, and execute Turtle’s myriad of events, incentive programs, meetings, conferences, trade shows, and miscellaneous special projects. Including but not limited to the Circle of Excellence, Sales Summits, AIM Conferences, Board Meetings, Branch-specific events, and special projects as they arise.
  1. Vendor RFP generation, selection/communication/management, negotiations, billing, and payment
  2. Oversee all aspects of event financial processes including budget framing/adherence, program reconciliation, and final billing.
  3. Manage, build, create content of web-based registration systems including reporting and attendee communication.
  4. Plan and operate all aspects of site inspections.
  5. Write, coordinate, oversee production of event program documentation, signage, on-site print communication and shipping.
  6. Manage on-site F&B, room set up, transportation dispatch, hospitality desk staffing, rooming list management, VIP services, production-related vendors, signage placement, room deliveries, etc.
  7. Hire and manage professional travel directors and event staff.
  8. Work in tandem with AFS (or other air provider) to manage all aspect of the day-to-day air management and the attendee experience.
• Cooperatively work and support various Turtle departments (i.e., Corporate Communications, Marketing, HR) to bring success and collaboration to projects.
• Support Turtle’s brand-forward merchandise programs such as event gifting, holiday & anniversary gifting, and management of the company store
• Develop and document processes, SOPs, and Best Practices for Meeting & Events Department
• Work with internal Salesforce team to streamline event-management.
• Collaborate with Turtle co-workers to develop trusting and cooperative relationships to ensure that efforts and goals are aligned.
• Mentor and identify new and existing employees interested in meeting and events to grow into a support or management role.
• Ability to assess large and small situations and create solutions to solve problems.
• Meet established KPIs.
• Assess and identify areas to increase ROI.
• Ensure performance of project teams
• Develop and maintain strategic vendor relationships.
• Embody Turtle’s unique brand and culture.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of financial objectives.
• Create budgets.
• Ensure budget accuracy and integrity.
• Precise project reconciliation

What You’ll Bring

• High-level planning and management of Turtle’s myriad of internal and customer events
• Minimum of eight years of all aspects of complex incentive travel programs, high-end corporate meetings, and special event experience at a managerial level.
• Bachelor’s Degree or significant direct experience.
• Expertise of Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Event Registration software.
• Experience leading teams of individuals to bring projects to fruition.
• Ability to work long hours during events and travel domestically and internationally.

What We Offer:

We offer a competitive benefits package. Some of which include:

• 401(k) plan
• Health Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Paid Holidays
• Vacation and Sick Days
• Employee Negotiated Discounts

Who We Are

Founded in 1923, Turtle is a fourth-generation, family-owned, and three-generation women-owned business, and one of the nation’s largest independent electrical and industrial distributors. Headquartered in Linden, NJ, our Electrical Distribution division operates 14 branches spanning from coast to coast. It is a significant force in the engineering and procurement of power distribution, automation, lighting, and energy projects, offering integrated services for the industrial and construction markets. Turtle & Hughes Integrated Supply (THIS) division provides on-site MRO procurement, cost-saving, and spend analytics across the US and in Canada, Puerto Rico, and Mexico.

What To Do Next

You can begin by filling out our application online. If you want to learn more about Turtle, please visit our website www.turtle.com or our social medias! LinkedIn: @Turtle Instagram: @TurtleandHughes Facebook: @TurtleandHughes Twitter: @TurtleandHughes YouTube: @TurtleandHughes

Turtle is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, marital status, military or veteran status, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.