B2B Field Marketing Events Manager, U.S. Food & Drink - Ursus, Inc.

JOB TITLE: B2B Field Marketing Events Manager, U.S. Food & Drink
LOCATION: REMOTE
DURATION: 6+ months
PAY RANGE: $70-$80/hr
TOP 3 SKILLS:

• 5+ years of professional marketing experience
• 3+ years experience building, executing and scaling field marketing events from concept to completion
• Ability to travel nationally, including weekends, to attend strategic events, or to spot-check vendor execution.

Company:
Our client, a cutting-edge fintech organization using blockchain technology to democratize the global economy is currently recruiting for a B2B Field Marketing Events Manager, U.S. Food & Drinkto bring onto the team.

Job Description:
Our client empowers Food & Drink commerce to start, run, and grow their businesses through advanced workflows, specialized products, and business insights while also leveraging broader ecosystem.
In short, we love restaurants (and other F&D businesses such as bars, food trucks) and the creative + business minds behind them. If you are a marketer who also loves this space and the personalities and trends around it, this may be just the role for you.

We are seeking a self-directed and experienced B2B Field Marketing Manager to lead our newly established field marketing events portfolio. You will plan, manage, attend and evaluate strategic field events within the Food & Drink vertical across designated U.S. markets. The B2B Field Marketing Events Manager is an integral part of the Growth Marketing team who, on a daily basis, will partner with internal stakeholders such as Partnerships, Partner Marketing and Sales as well as our external agency partner to deliver bar raising experiences for our sellers.

This role will support Partner Marketing + local Sales business goals and priorities. This highly motivated and extremely organized candidate must have experience planning in-person field events, managing projects happening concurrently, possess exceptional written and verbal communication skills, and work collaboratively with multiple stakeholders.

As a representative at each attended event, you will act professionally by displaying constant poise and sophistication, especially during fast-moving and/or ambiguous situations. This candidate can successfully work autonomously on full-cycle event management, logistics and strategy. Your leadership will directly help optimize lead generation opportunities and contribute to pipeline and revenue growth.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for full-cycle event management and strategy including shipping logistics, attendee experience & engagement, event booth optimization, budget management, post event reporting and more for key business initiatives like partner events, trade shows and restaurant association activations..
• Establish and lead best practices for Square's F&D field marketing event approach, including event selection and prioritization, management and execution.
• Work with the Partnerships team to proactively explore other potential channel partnerships that can deliver new customers and revenue to Square.
• Build strong relationships with Channel Partners through consistent communication and onsite event professionalism.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with internal teams to amplify the event, deliver an outstanding attendee experience and meet product marketing's goals and objectives.
• Apply strong project management, documentation, analytics, and reporting & analysis skills.
• Work productively within a small team environment while also rolling up your sleeves to effectively accomplish all field event management responsibilities.
• This role travels up to 50% of the time within the U.S.

Skills Qualifications:

• 5+ years of professional marketing experience
• 3+ years experience building, executing and scaling field marketing events from concept to completion
• Know and love the event marketing space. Has the ability to articulate emerging trends and offers thought leadership on field marketing tactics.
• Strong attention to detail, exemplary project management skills and solution-oriented.
• Have a proven track record of producing quality work from idea through execution that's on time and within budget.
• Have stellar communication skills and can clearly communicate your ideas in both written and oral channels and forums.

Travel Notes:

• Ability to travel nationally, including weekends, to attend strategic events, or to spot-check vendor execution.

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