Project Director Global Events
Project Director Global Events
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27-04-2025
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Job Summary:
The Project Director Global Events is passionate about marketing events and project management. Your mission is to align people and processes across multiple regions and drive the creation and of phenomenal event experiences (primarily in EMEA and APAC) that engage attendees and meet our marketing and broader business objectives.
As a leader within the Global Events Team (GET) in D2L Marketing you will lead the international events team andengage with departments across the organizationand around the worldto drive the international event strategy planning logistics and tracking of events and related campaigns productions and processes. Youll create and manage memorable event experiences that generate leads influence pipe build on our brand momentum and showcase our company customers and solutions.
How You Will Make an Impact:
- Create and drive strategic event plans and processes and work closely in partnership with regional event leads to support our international plans and global sales and marketing goals.
- Own event experiences primarily in EMEA and APAC regions from concept through completion strategy event planning and preparation and management of onsite logistics and production as well as postevent reporting and followup ensuring highlevel service throughout.
- Lead crossfunctional projects and own and manage plans workloads timelines actions tasks dependencies and budgets. Troubleshoot and handle issues risk mitigation and identify opportunities and new ideas to execute global event experiences.
- Provide direction and partner with various departments across multiple countries within the organization as well as external clients vendors and others to establish needs for events throughout all the phases.
- Coordinate the development of materials content assets messaging and manage event technical production and logistical elements and liaise and prepare speakers sponsors vendors and enable event staff.
- Maintain global event calendar and track and report on global impact. Clearly communicate activities goals and results to stakeholders.
- Use your process expertise to help teams monitor and optimize performance at every stage of the journey to ensure event experiences and related content/messaging/campaigns/plans are resonating and identify how we can improve.
- Enable internal and external messengers to amplify messaging drive event registrations engagement feedback and followup through various channels.
- Nurture and build strong relationships with internal teams external vendors venues and other industry contacts.
- Stay current and ahead of the curve on the key industry events to sponsor as well as event planning outreach design and experience trends with an eye towards continuous improvement and sharing insights and learnings across the team.
- Manage the daily details with bigpicture strategic thinking to ensure truly unique and immersive event experiences.
What Youll Bring to the Role:
- Proficient project manager with proven experience leading large crossfunctional projects and programs and creating and optimizing crossfunctional processes.
- A strong CV demonstrating proven experience and success managing and owning endtoend planning and of inperson events.
- Strong peopleleadership skills with experience managing direct reports.
- Experience creating marketing programs campaigns and experiences that truly impact the audiences they reach.
- Ability to think quickly under pressure solve difficult problems and make splitsecond decisions.
- Advanced collaboration communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to communicate complex information to others effectively and presents succinct wellbalanced information with clear outcomes
- Capable of managing multiple priorities in parallel and meeting hard deadlines.
- Strong ability to coordinate not only your own tasks but also coordinate and drive crossfunctional alignment and task accountability with others.
- Strong organization skills including multitasking and time management.
- A selfmotivated and outgoing individual with the ability to work independently and with a team.
- Great leadership qualities with the ability to delegate and clearly communicate responsibility to others to meet expectations.
- Meticulous attention to detail as there will be an element of administration duties data entry and contract venue and technical reviews.
- Advanced MS Excel skills are an asset.
- Proficiency with Marketing and Project management tools and technologies preferred.
- Experience in building enriching working relationships and managing external vendor relationships both inperson and remotely.
- Results driven with creative mindset and stamina to recommend and try new things and figure out how to continuously improve.
- Communication writing and/or copywriting experience is preferred.
- Knowledge of marketing demand generation funnel is an asset
- In addition to English proficiency in additional languages such as Spanish and/or Portuguese would be an asset to this role that supports activities across several international regions.
- Flexibility to work even at irregular hours and to travel both domestic and internationally as youll be coordinating with regions across the globe.
Required Experience:
Exec
Employment Type
Contract
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