Senior Marketing Meeting & Events Planner

COMPANY PROFILE

Great Minds, a mission driven Public Benefit Corporation, brings teachers and scholars together to craft exemplary instructional materials that inspire joy in teaching and learning. Our English curriculum, Wit & Wisdom®, Eureka Math™ and PhD Science™, all support teachers as they take students beyond rote learning to provide a deeper, more complete understanding of the humanities, mathematics, and the sciences. Founded in 2007, Great Minds now employs more than 1,000 people.

For additional information please visit: www.greatminds.org

OUR MARKET POSITION

Great Minds’ Eureka Math is the most widely used curriculum in the history of American education. It enjoys an unrivaled 40+ net promoter score. Eureka and its sister products, Wit & Wisdom English and PhD Science, embrace much higher expectations for all students and all teachers. In a market dominated by scripted, procedural materials that drive expectations down, Great Minds produces curricula that celebrate knowledge, respect the craft of teaching, and acknowledge the true capabilities of students.

Job Purpose

The Marketing Meeting & Events Planner will work to coordinate and support Great Minds’ presence at more than 200 education tradeshow events and meetings a year. Some travel for on-site support will be required. This highly visible role demands extensive customer service skills, a high level of professionalism and willingness to handle all planning and administrative details of meetings and events. The ideal candidate enjoys thriving in a team-based, challenging, and fast-paced atmosphere where prioritizing and multi-tasking are the norm. Exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail are a must to succeed in this role.

Responsibilities

• Oversee and facilitate various aspects of meeting planning from site selection, event registration, and post-event reporting.
• Work on multiple national meetings, large-scale conferences and events.
• Partner with Sales, Success and Product teams to create a strategy for every national event to maximize event attendance and ROI.
• Nurture and build relationships with vendors and venues while crafting and implementing the creative and logistical aspects of all events
• Remain current with trends in event planning, design, and production, and proactively identify and solve operational challenges with internal teams and vendors
• Prepare BEO information with event venues.
• Coordinate travel, lodging and expenses for participants traveling to meetings.
• Develop and maintain relationships with exhibitors/sponsors.
• Perform administrative tasks covering meeting preparation, supply ordering, packing/shipping of event materials, and data entry.
• Create invoices and receipts as requested.
• Track and code expenses for event budget reconciliation.
• Create and analyze online evaluations and prepare post-event reports.
• Other duties as assigned by the Enterprise Events Manager.
• Evaluate event success and provide evidence-based recommendations to leadership for improvement for future events