Marketing Events Specialist

About the position

This position is responsible for planning and executing numerous employee engagement events throughout the year for several thousand leaders, staff and physicians including health system week, leadership dinner, US News celebration and holiday party.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute corporate, community, medical staff, fund development, employee, and executive events and projects in support of strategic health system objectives and initiatives using customized content to bolster relationships and ensuring KPIs and budgetary goals are met.
• Build reputation and patient volumes supporting the vision and needs of the health system.
• Facilitate relationships and work with numerous stakeholders including C-suite, executives, medical staff, service line managers, university executives and staff, fund development, government relations and marketing colleagues to execute to ongoing outreach, partnerships and employee engagement events.
• Strengthen and build our relationship with key community organizations around ongoing sponsorship and community outreach support.
• Evaluate annually sponsorship opportunities.
• Maximize events and sponsorships identifying speaking, branding and experience opportunities.
• Manage branded booth and exhibit materials, collateral, and promotional items.
• Create activation experiences for community events i.e., KC Royals Health Awareness Days.
• Oversee health system sponsored walks that includes event activation, t-shirt design and production, and employee participation.
• Hire, manage and maintain vendor relationships to ensure logistical success including parking, valet, catering, audio visual, venue, rentals, cleaning, security and staffing.
• Support additional community outreach in coordination with internal partners by others within the health system, cancer center, and fund development.
• Facilitate events associated with health system partners i.e., Chiefs, Royals, T-Mobile and KU Athletics.
• Support internal stakeholders with relevant content including design and content to create attendee experiences that meet brand standards.
• Coordinate player, celebrity tours and visits, maximizing exposure on social media and through local news.
• Source, order and manage employee gifts acting as the single point of contact.

Requirements

• Bachelors Degree in Marketing, Communications, or a related field of study from an accredited college or university.
• 5 or more years of Corporate Events Management experience.
• 3 or more years of managing large scale events.

Nice-to-haves

• Master's Degree of Business Administration or a related field of study from an accredited college or university.
• 8 or more years of Corporate Events Management experience.