Job Title: Marketing Event Manager

Office Location: Houston, TX, preferred

Business Function / Department

Business Development / Marketing

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.

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/. 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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