The marketing specialist will drive the planning, organization, and execution of events for an account team that manages two large hardware partners. This includes led, OEM partner led and industry events. This role will also support marketing projects and activities that are critical for our partner’s success. This person will report to the Marketing Operations manager on the partner account team. This role will not only interact with the WW account team but will also interface with the client and partners' marketing teams, corporate events, and communications teams.

Disqualifiers: Candidates who have not worked large scale marketing executions primarily with large corporations.

Responsibilities:
Event Planning & Management –

• Build and maintain worldwide marketing event calendars.
• Plan for overall partner event sponsorship, participation and attendance.
• Lead the account team and partner focals to understand potential event participation opportunities.
• Create and own planning ROB prior to all events, and own execution of workback schedules.
• Logistics management for all events.
• Track a significant amount of action items including working with creative logo approvals, briefing schedules, and all items leading up to event.

Marketing Projects & Activities –

• Provide support for various workstreams and special initiatives by managing project milestones, anticipating implementation issues, and proactively driving solution options.
• Communicate program status updates as appropriate across workstreams and activities.
• Provide ad hoc support for marketing activities as needed including, but not limited to, reporting and analysis.

Stakeholder Management –

• Establish and maintain relationships with 15-20 stakeholders within the partnering philanthropy, diversity and inclusion, commercial marketing, education, and field sales community.
• Schedule and conduct internal and external tracking and update calls with stakeholders.

Qualifications:

• Minimum 3 years experience with project management
• Minimum 3 years experience with corporate marketing events planning
• Minimum 3 years experience with marketing – previously executed multimillion dollar marketing initiatives

The target hiring compensation range for this role is $29.31 to $32.57 an hour. Compensation is based on several factors including, but not limited to education, relevant work experience, relevant certifications, and location.

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Our client is a large technology company based in Redmond, Washington with a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. They develop computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services. This company enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge.

Working here, you will be part of a company that values:

• Innovation
• Diversity and inclusion
• Corporate social responsibility
• AI
• Trustworthy computing

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Aquent is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.