ING BANK

Our Global Brand, Marketing & Communications team is looking for an eperienced and highly capable events & eperiences manager to join this high performing team in the role of Senior Global Events & Eperiences Manager.
As a senior events & eperiences manager you will be responsible for steering, guiding and delivering creative and high-profile events and sponsorship programs that align with ING’s brand. You will play a pivotal role in shaping internal and eternal global events and sponsorship activations, as well as the strategic direction of the epertise.

HOW TO SUCCEED

We hire smart people like you for your potential. Our biggest epectation is that you’ll stay curious. Keep learning. Take on responsibility. In return, we’ll back you to develop into an even more awesome version of yourself.
You as a person have the talent to take it on and make it happen, you have a strategic mindset, you love to help others to be successful, and you are always a step ahead. In other words, you strive to bring fresh ideas to life and embrace challenges in a fast-changing and comple environment. You are a naturally collaborative person who listens and invests in others to achieve common goals. You like to challenge the status quo and are eager to propose creative solutions to problems. You strive for operational and creative ecellence; you have a global curiosity and are a fast learner. You can articulate a concept in a manner that inspires and motivates others to understand, meet and eceed epectations of the (internal) client.

We are looking for a team member with the following knowledge and eperience:

• HBO or WO degree
• Minimum of 5 years’ eperience with a proven track record in managing impactful sponsorship activities & high-level events.
• Preferably managerial eperience, to be able to steer multi-disciplinary project teams
• Eperienced in working with sr. leadership and multi-disciplinary teams in fast moving and international environments.
• Passion for events and hospitality, being able to manage a high-pressure job (prioritize) with irregular hours
• Great understanding of branding, marketing & communications
• Eperience in building strong and credible relationships with key stakeholders and senior management
• Ecellent project management skills
• Data driven attitude: true data curiosity and the ability to derive new insights
• Eperience in third party management and coordination
• Willingness to travel and work some evenings/weekends
• Fluently English and Dutch (speaking & writing)
• Tech savvy, adaptability with new technologies and platforms and an above average knowledge of (event management) systems in place (a.o. Microsoft applications, registration systems)

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ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Initiating, coordinating, and steering corporate events for internal audiences – both in-person, hybrid and online including:
• employee & brand engagement events
• strategy, organisational & change communication events
• Supervisory Board/Eecutive Board/MBB events and retreats
• Initiating, coordinating, and steering client events: Wholesale Banking relationship marketing events and sponsorship activations.
• Builds effective working relationships with internal clients and provide high-quality professional services.
• Contribute to stakeholder engagement by identifying stakeholders and addressing their needs and concerns.
• Establishing strong relationships with sponsorship & event managers across the local ING markets and within the ING head office.
• Unites, ecites and steers the global event community for a.o. coherent event eperiences.
• Building a connected and engaged community across the sponsorship, events & eperiences specialities
• Advice on sponsorship activation requests in line with the strategy and related guidelines.
• Activation and event management from A to Z:
• Advices on event concepts and content in relation to the objective at hand, according to (internal) clients’ events and eperiences requests.
• Designs, develops and steers events and eperiences and generates an action plan. Ensures that the client’s objective is met in every way possible.
• Functions – if required – as an event lead in multi-disciplinary project teams for the event or eperience at hand.
• Selects, procures and negotiates on all the necessary event agency services, accommodation, catering, audio visual equipment, entertainment, decoration, branding, transport, printing, security and other facilities. Aims for good value for money.
• Independently monitors – prior to the actual event – the planning, invitations, progress and quality and reports on these areas to the client. Select representatives of eternal suppliers and relations to participate in the project. Manages his/her budget for the event.
• Manages proper input of addresses, registration, invitations, printing as well as financial reporting, accounting and payments. Follows organization’s policies and procedures.
• Bears overall responsibility during the event for the organisation, makes any necessary changes and is the main contact person for the client. Manages in this respect a multi-disciplinary team consisting of internal and eternal representatives from suppliers, etc.
• Arranges for post-event evaluation; decides with the client whether the objectives were met.
• Maintains marketing records and procedures for each event and implement additional changes to help improve efficiency.
• Keeps up with the latest trends in presentation forms, techniques and entertainment applicable to the events trade and incorporates these into his/her advisory role.

We want to make sure that it’s possible for you to strike the right balance between your career and your private life. Find out more about our employment conditions. A unique opportunity to join a new team with a clear purpose. A unique offer and a range of fleible compensation and other benefits:

• A fied term contract.
• A salary compensation that is fit for purpose and the eperience required to fulfil the job.
• Personal growth & challenging work with endless opportunities to realise your ambitions.
• A progressive and dynamic way of working, where new ideas are valued ahead of convention
• The opportunity to meet various important players in the media landscape (publishers, tech companies, cutting edge marketing tools).
• The chance to get to know ING from an international perspective
• Pension scheme
• 13th month salary
• Individual Savings Contribution (BIS), 3.5% of your gross annual salary
• 8% Holiday paymen