# Marketing Event Manager (PR26027)

**Company:** [TMEIC Corporation Americas](http://jobs.workable.com/companies/k6gjoSLitbksacr7YXcHpA.md)
**Location:** Houston, United States
**Workplace:** hybrid
**Employment type:** Full-time
**Department:** Marketing (8082000)

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## Description

_**Job #**_ PR26027

_**Job Title**_ Marketing Event Manager

_**Office Location**_ Houston, TX, preferred

_**Business Function /Department**_ Business Development/Marketing

_**Sales Territory, if applicable**_ N/A

_**General Role Description**_

Lead the strategic planning, execution, and optimization of high-impact corporate, client, and industry events that support business objectives, brand positioning, and revenue growth

_**Role Accountabilities**_

\-   Create and implement marketing event strategies to drive attendance and engagement

\-   Lead and manage the full event lifecycle: concept, planning, logistics, execution, and post-event evaluation

\-   Manage the annual event calendar aligned to business and marketing goals

\-   Develop and manage detailed project plans, timelines, run-of-show documents, and prepare post-show reports for the BU and marketing leadership

\-   Align marketing messaging, branding, and tactics with marketing management and secure approvals

\-   Prepare and update trade show budgets, reporting to management as necessary

\-   Define, measure and analyze event KPIs in collaboration with BU and other marketing team members

\-   Manage booth fabricators/display companies, and other external providers to meet all agreed deliverables in line with agreed designs

\-   Build strong relationships with trade show organizers to secure speaker programming in collaboration with internal subject matter experts and marketing management

\-   Secure and maintain lead retrieval during shows

\-   Monitor schedule, shipping, import/export compliance, and logistics for all marketing and trade show-related goods and services; resolve or escalate issues, as necessary 

\-   Maintain booth schedule for BU use 

\-   Coordinate with the Creative Manager to ensure sufficient inventory of approved promotional items for use at events

\-   Ensure trade show inventory of displays, banners, and graphics are accounted for at all times

\-   Ensure the full and timely registration of attendees who require assistance

\-   Create and distribute an event handbook, providing a single source of information for each major event to all Company attendees

\-   Plan and execute internal employee events as requested

_**General Employee Accountabilities**_

\-   Bring full effort to bear on tasks assigned by manager

\-   Give manager best advice

\-   Give earliest notice when work cannot be delivered as specified

\-   Cooperate and collaborate with peers and interact cross-organizationally as specified by manager

\-   Exemplify Company Core Values: Integrity, Client Focus, Team Orientation, and Personal Commitment

\-   Comply with all Company policies, practices, and procedures and all regulations and laws

\-   Recommend viable improvements proactively

\-   Ensure effective utilization of business tools and processes

## Requirements

_**Minimum Qualifications**_

-   Bachelor’s degree in marketing communications, event management, or related field, or equivalent via education and/or experience
-   5 years' experience in marketing communications or marketing events role
-   Demonstrated experience managing successful events and campaigns
-   Demonstrated project management skills
-   Demonstrated experience in vendor negotiation
-   Demonstrated successful working relationships with clients, suppliers, and other internal and external contacts
-   Demonstrated successful positive personal leadership, interpersonal, organizational, administrative, and communication skills
-   Proficiency in MS Office Suite
-   Availability to travel domestically, up to approximately 25%, and internationally, up to approximately 15%, sometimes on short notice
-   Demonstrated continuous improvement in areas of responsibility

_**Preferred Qualifications**_

\-   MBA or master’s in marketing

\-   5 years' marketing experience in the power electronics or other capital equipment industries in any combination of the metals, material handling, renewable energy systems, paper, or related general industries

\-   Proficiency in current design software, including Adobe Creative Cloud apps (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop)

\-   Demonstrated experience with a foreign-owned business, preferably Japanese

\-   Demonstrated experience in a dynamic, high-growth, global engineering services organization or industry served by the Company

**Link to TMEIC Corporation Americas website**:  [https://www.tmeic.com/](https://www.tmeic.com/).  To be considered an applicant for any available positions, individuals must complete an online job application for each posting.  A resume may be attached to the online application but is not considered a substitute for the information in the application.  Applications will be considered only for the specific position for which the application is submitted.

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