Event Manager

at  Lockton Inc

Working at Lockton
At Lockton, we’re passionate about helping our people achieve their ultimate potential. Our people are curious, action-oriented and always striving to make ourselves and those around us better. We’re active listeners working to ensure understanding and problem solvers developing innovative solutions. If you can see yourself delivering excellent service to clients, giving back to our communities and being a part of our caring culture, you belong here.
Business unit
Lockton Management, LLC
Schedule
Full-time
Job type
Standard
Workplace
In Office
Your Responsibilities
This position is part of the Lockton Meetings and Events team, which is responsible for managing major internal and external conferences and networking events for Lockton, the world’s largest privately held insurance broker.
Reporting to the Director, Meetings and Events, this leader will oversee full-cycle meeting management for the Lockton Dunning Series. Success requires collaboration across teams to define goals and objectives, build program strategy and design, manage site/vendor selection, meeting logistics, technology, budget management, communications, on-site event execution and final reconciliation. The role requires extensive travel, especially to cities in Texas where internal stakeholders and most events are located. While this role is part of a creative team that is passionate about delivering powerful brand experiences, it requires an experienced events leader to guide the planning process.
Responsibilities:
• Drive strategy with senior leaders on objectives, requirements and logistics.
• Ensure Lockton’s events maintain their reputation for being creative, engaging and aligned with our celebrated culture.
• Demonstrate strong negotiation and contracting skills to leverage Lockton’s buying power.
• Develop and manage budgets and support the allocation process.
• Act as key contact with internal clients, venues, contractors, and vendors.
• Create and maintain event timelines and schedules.
• Develop and support registration and mobile app process including event build, reporting, attendee correspondence and troubleshooting.
• Host, advise and train Associates on virtual event platforms and best practices.
• Develop event communications and coordinate design and print needs.
• Build scalable processes and playbooks for event planning and execution.
Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree
• 8+ years of event planning experience, preferably in corporate events.
• Strategic thinker with experience improving processes and driving initiatives.
• Strong interpersonal skills with ability to build consensus, share best practices, and communicate point of view effectively.
• Excellent project management skills.
• Comfortable with event technology and learning new platforms quickly.
• Highly organized; works well under pressure.
• Contributes toward the fun team dynamic while being creative, flexible, reliable and self-motivated.
Preferred Skills:
• Certified Meeting Planner (CMP) or working toward designation.
• Cvent or similar registration system experience preferred.
• WebEx or similar virtual meeting platform experience preferred.
• Ability and willingness to travel for meetings as needed (projected travel: 30%+)
Equal Opportunity Statement
Lockton Companies is proud to provide everyone an equal opportunity to grow and advance. We are committed to an inclusive culture and environment where our people, clients and communities are treated with respect and dignity.
At Lockton, supporting diversity, equity and inclusion is ingrained in our values, and we believe that we are at our best when we fully embrace everyone. We strive to cultivate a caring culture that learns from, celebrates and thrives because of our breadth of differences. As such, we recognize that recruiting, developing and retaining people with diverse backgrounds and experiences is vital and enabling our people to thrive personally and professionally is critical to our long-term success.
About Lockton
Lockton is the largest privately held independent insurance brokerage in the world. Since 1966, our independence has allowed us to serve our clients, take care of our people and give back to our communities. As such, our 10,000+ Associates doing business in over 100 countries are empowered to do what’s right every day.
At Lockton, we believe in the power of all people. You belong at Lockton.
How We Will Support You
At Lockton, we empower you to be true to yourself in all that you do. Your success is our success, and we provide opportunities to help you grow and create a rewarding career path, however you envision it.
We are ready to meet you where you are today, and as your needs change over time. In addition to industry-leading health insurance, we offer additional options to support your overall health and wellbeing.
No Agencies Please
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