Job Order: 4999
Staff Representative: Tim Jadwin
Position: Senior Associate, Events and Meeting Services
Location: New Jersey
Company Summary:
A huge global corporation.
Description:
Responsibilities:
- Develop and manage the Request for Proposal process for firmwide meetings and client facing events.
- Conduct contract negotiations for meetings and events utilizing services to leverage total firm spending
- Collaborate with the travel services global hotel program manager in order to present a unified firm approach to negotiations with hotel vendors
- Build and maintain strong client relationships and maintain an understanding of the practice or industry goals and objectives in order to offer guidance and recommendations on facility considerations
- Build and maintain strong vendor relationships, share updates on new properties with colleagues, and represent changes and renovations
- Build and maintain a collaborative relationship with risk management internal departments to help ensure a consistent delivery in compliance with internal controls, processes, and procedures
- Exhibit compliance with departmental processes pertaining to client communication, savings, and spend tracking, metrics, and timely post event reporting
- Create comparative metrics on facility options based on analysis and provide recommendations on meeting and event spending trends, and opportunities
- Proactively make recommendations that provide opportunity to avoid or recoup meeting or event penalties
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college/university
- Six years experience including procurement with meeting and event vendors
- High level of knowledge of facility options in United States
- Able to prioritize projects and work with others to meet deadlines in a high pressure environment
- Interact comfortably and professionally with clients and vendors of various levels, including Partners
- Demonstrated organizational, leadership, and people management skills
- Active involvement in Meeting Professionals International (MPI) and other industry associations
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office suite applications
