Marketing Consultant - II at GCB Services LLC
Overland Park, KS 66251
About the Job
Description:
Marketing Sr. Project Manager, Virtual Events
This position is in Overland Park, KS and is not open for remote work.
Summary:
We're dedicated to providing exceptional experiences to our customers, and that extends to our virtual events and webinars. We're seeking an experienced Virtual Event Marketing Manager to join our team. This role will focus on building awareness for client's suite of products and services through strategic event marketing campaigns, with a particular emphasis on virtual events and webinars. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in marketing, with a knack for both day-to-day execution and long-term strategy.
Events Marketing is seeking a year-long, full-time contractor position responsible for managing project delivery for virtual events and webinar projects with cross-functional project teams. Projects may be comprised of several departments, have high visibility, pressing schedules, and require negotiation skills to balance the needs of project stakeholders. Project Manager will be responsible for organizing and documenting project work and program documents.
Specific work duties include maintaining project plans, creating documentation around standard processes and programs, meeting preparation, communications, and other assigned projects. This contractor position will manage work utilizing standard project management methodologies, processes/procedures projects have clear start/end dates; specific manpower resource allocations; budgets and are clearly identified as a "project" by the business.
Key Responsibilities:
- Experience in B2B marketing, experience in virtual events.
- Strong Project Management skill set.
- Proficient in Microsoft 365 with daily practice in Excel and PowerPoint.
- Proactive work approach to anticipate needs and next steps. Independent worker who moves projects forward.
- Close partnership with campaign team members to ensure work is on time and progressing. This person will be an active project partner who will complete work as well as manage work.
- Provides input to project approach and steps to ensure alignment with business goals.
- Supports end-to-end project management of webinars, ensuring all timelines and objectives are managed and met including technical support of webinar platform, hosting webinar, troubleshooting, reporting, etc.
- Supports work in webinar workstreams and executes tactical plans to achieve established goals.
- Work with cross-functional teams such as Product Marketing, Campaigns, Brand, Social, Paid Media to manage tasks and get work completed.
- Document completed project work in program guides, project plans and performance reporting.
- Manage communications and webinar calendars to promote internally.
- Manage lead flow for webinar post events and manage tasks associated with virtual event follow up.
- Perform other related duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- Strong project management experience, with the ability to effectively manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Experience usings SalesForce.
- Experience using Webex
- Experience using On24
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Effective time management abilities and the capacity to meet deadlines.
- Ability to adapt quickly to various situations and work well in a team environment.
Education:
- Bachelor's degree in marketing, communications, business, or years in related work experience.
- 5 years of experience with project management - Required
- Project Management - Required
- Microsoft 365 Office - Required
- Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills - Required
- Field-facing communication creation - Required
- Microsoft SharePoint - Required
- Licenses and Certifications:
- Project Management Professional (PMP) Pref
Technology Requirements : - Webex, Salesforce, On24,Microsoft 365 with strong Powerpoint and Excel skills
Preferred background/prior work experience? webinars, virtual events, marketing to events and audience acquisition (nice to have)
Priority soft skills: Adaptability, communication at different levels of an org, analysis, creativity, detail-oriented, prioritization