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Events Manager
Forbes
Jersey City, NJ, United States
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Events Manager, ForbesLive
Forbes Media seeks an enthusiastic, highly motivated, team player to join our ForbesLive team at an Event Manager. This individual has strong communication and organization skills and a background events and conferences. The Event Manager position will comprehensively support the Event Sales and Marketing department, in the numerous ForbesLive client events and conferences produced yearly.
Responsibilities include:
• Execute and oversee sales/marketing custom client events
• Vendor search and contract negotiations
• Create and maintain timelines, BEOs, specialized floor plans, budgets
• Working with design on invitation & branding creation
• Day-of management of events & event staff, including nights and occasional Weekends
• Must be very well versed in Microsoft – Word, Excel, Power point, Outlook; as well as Google docs.
Requirements:
• Bachelor’s degree
• 2-4+ years’ experience in events and conferences.
• He/she will also be highly detail-oriented, possess superior writing, verbal and interpersonal skills, and will be able to work in a deadline-driven environment with minimal supervision.
Forbes Media is a global media, branding and technology company, with a focus on news and information about business, investing, technology, entrepreneurship, leadership and affluent lifestyles. The company publishes Forbes and Forbes Asia, as well as Forbes.com. The Forbes brand today reaches more than 98 million people worldwide with its business message each month through its magazines and 38 licensed local editions around the globe, Forbes.com, TV, conferences, research, social and mobile platforms. Forbes Media’s brand extensions include conferences, real estate, education, financial services, and technology license agreements.
Forbes is an equal opportunity employer.