Event Operations Lead
ektello - San Mateo, CA
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Event Operations LeadW2 Contract 100% remote The Event Partner Operations Lead, brings strategic and operational rigor, a deep understanding of events, a natural passion for on the ground experiences and operations and incredible stakeholder management skills to deliver best-in-class activations that make our client shine across its Events portfolio. They will be responsible for supporting and implementing event operations to establish activations across a variety of event partnerships, from sports to art, music and culture.What you'll be doing:Develop experiential plans and support experiences across a variety of event partnerships worldwideCollaborate across functions, markets and regions, to develop highly effective, design-forward, localized ideas for implementation.Gain cross-functional, event partner and leadership buy-in to deliver a creative, high-quality, impactful guest experience.Partner closely with internal cross-functional teams, event partners, and agencies to ensure operational excellence bringing our plans to life for our guests and event attendees.Deliver creatively excellent on site activations, including but not limited to: experiences and services on site, experiential venues, venue hospitality, support of on site media, social media, UGC and other various onsite amplifications, ensuring all activities feel local and personal.Conduct RFPs, build contracts and SOWs, support POs and ensure timely payments for execution across all assets involved, working closely with procurement, legal, and finance.Oversee internal teams and agencies, manage and track budgets, delivering on time and on budget.Work with finance and operations on budget forecasting and actualizing; ensuring timely SOWs and contracts with partners at all times; provide regular activity updates and reconciliations.Manage analytics and reporting for success of these activations working closely with event partners, data science and FP&AConduct after action reviews on projects including results, lessons learned and best practices to global, regional and local internal and external partners, building learnings into improvements for future projects.What you bring:Deep subject matter expertise at event operations - management, client or agency side, with preference in the sports, music or arts/culture.Significant experience working closely with agencies, event partners and internal teams, including marketing, communications, FP&A and data analytics functions.Deep experience delivering globally integrated creative activations supported by brand, comms, media, and data strategy.
Created: 2025-03-10