Corporate Event Planner

Lennox (NYSE: LII) Driven by 130 years of legacy HVAC and refrigeration success Lennox provides our residential and commercial customers with industry-leading climate-control solutions. At Lennox we win as a team aiming for excellence and delivering innovative sustainable products and services. Our culture guides us and creates a workplace where all employees feel heard and welcomed. Lennox is a global community that values each team members contributions and offers a supportive environment for career development. Come stay and grow with us.

The Event Planner will work effectively with Business Unit Leadership Marketing and Sales to execute numerous customer and employee events and incentive trips throughout the year. This includes the North American Sales meeting three large customer conferences (Lennox LIVE) three high end incentive trips (Dave Lennox Awards Circle of Excellence and Master Council) several Large customer incentive trips and several other smaller internal employee meetings.

Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Program Owner

• Delivers outstanding experiences on Lennox programs while ensuring alignment between company and customer goals and objectives.
• Builds strong relationships within the marketing and sales teams and other key cross-functional teams.

Strategy

• Participates in strategic planning process for key meetings and conferences to include identifying key stakeholders facilitating meetings enabling strategic direction that meet companys objectives and aligning team members.
• Regularly interacts with senior management and/or major customers. Interactions include negotiating or influencing customers and/or senior level leaders in matters of significance to the organization.
• Oversees event/meeting content design along with the logistical infrastructure of the event to ensure participation is aligned with business objectives.
• Executes a strategy that delivers on three key measures: outstanding customer experience within allocated budget on time.

Execution

• Assists with the logistical efforts and details for the execution of meetings conferences and incentive travel including requests for proposals (RFPs) on-site inspections site recommendations contract negotiation registration housing meeting room arrangements hotel specifications vendor management food and beverage requirements audiovisual requirement transportation and budget management.
• Set communicate and maintain timelines and priorities on every project.
• Create customized registration websites & electronic communication.
• Oversee post evaluation of meetings and provides analysis to key leadership and staff for decision support towards future programmatic improvements.

• Requires a bachelors degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 1-3 years experience preferred.
• Requires travel up to 30% (including weekend travel)
• Experience with Cvent preferred
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Familiar with standard concepts practices and procedures within a particular field.
• Proven ability to coordinate several activities simultaneously.
• Strong orientation to detail and accuracy; the ability to multitask and prioritize activities.

Compensation:This is a salaried exempt role. The starting salary range for this role and market is between $60000 - $78750 annually. Factors that may affect starting salary include geography/market and the skills education experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate. Employees in this role are also eligible for an annual bonus in accordance with the terms of the Companys applicable plan. Employees in this role are not eligible for overtime.

Benefits:Subject to applicable eligibility requirements the following benefits are offered for this role: tuition reimbursement; medical dental and vision insurance; prescription drug coverage; 401(k) retirement plan; short-term disability insurance; 8 weeks paid birthing leave; 2 weeks paid bonding leave; life and long-term disability insurance.

Depending on date of hire and subject to applicable eligibility requirements new employees in this role also receive up to: 12 days paid time off 2 paid well-being days 1 paid volunteer day 12 paid holidays and 3 floating holidays per year.

Our Culture: At Lennox our Core Values of Integrity Respect & Excellence are ingrained in the fabric of the organization. They define our culture which is about how we do business and how we treat others. Lennox is not just a workplace; we are a global community that values each team members contributions. As an equal opportunity employer we are committed to recruit develop and retain talented individuals from a wide range of backgrounds ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to succeed and contribute to our continued growth and success. At Lennox youll take pride in our brands knowing you are part of something special. Come stay and grow with us!

Disclaimers:The compensation and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Lennox reserves the right to modify this information at any time with or without notice subject to applicable law.

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