Meeting Planner
• Meeting planner managing annual meetings and trainings with attendance of 20 to 1100+ from start-to-finish. Participate in cross-functional team meetings with executives to provide insight on meeting and event logistics including budgets, anticipated issues and new ideas to enhance attendee experience • Maintain relationships with 80+ event sponsors/exhibitors; includes interacting at events, contributing to overall exhibit, sponsorship, event marketing/project plans• Responsible for hospitality services: hotel arrangements, entertainment, food and beverage menus, AV, room sets, VIP requests, room block management and reporting, emergency plans, post meeting reports and special events• Provide onsite management at events; includes coordinating timelines specific to events to ensure everything runs smoothly • Manage vendor relationships including hotels, transportation, exhibitor contractor, mobile app, among other vendors specific to the meeting• Minimize event costs and maximize revenue by negotiating with suppliers, coordinating and optimizing event resources, creating and monitoring budgets for meetings and special events• Indirectly supervise administrative support team who prints badges and prepares attendee registration materials