Overview
Full-Time, Permanent Opportunity
Excellent exposure to a diverse range of stakeholders
Sydney Based
See yourself in our team
As an integral part of Corporate Affairs, the Event team's role is to deliver exceptional events that generate inspiring engagement opportunities for our people and support the Bank's strategic priorities.
The Event Manager role will report into the Business Partner - Events. Our culture is built on passion, collaboration, curiosity, care, courage and commitment. The Events team deliver exceptional people engagement events to:
Communicate important messaging across the Bank.
Deliver exceptional event experiences for our people to drive our engagement goals.
Provide strategic education and recognition opportunities via the events channel.
Do work that matters
You will work closely with the most senior stakeholders and leaders of the Bank to deliver a variety of events and experiences for our people. This is a great opportunity for an event expert who is looking for a role that will allow them to showcase their highly tuned experience and refined skills.
More specifically you will:
Deliver a wide variety of internally focussed strategic and business events for the Bank's Executive Leadership team.
Deliver Recognition and Retention events across the Bank.
Together with key stakeholders, develop event concepts and deliver complete end to end event management on a variety of event programs that support growth objectives along with business and people engagement goals.
Build and manage project plans and lead small to medium sized working groups to ensure the delivery of work on deadline and to the highest quality.
Proactively manage and foster strong relationships to effectively influence complex senior stakeholder groups.
Use AI, event and technology platforms to improve data management and reporting opportunities.
Ensure all risk and compliance requirements are identified and managed.
Identify and implement improvements (process, value for money, contract negotiations etc.) to drive greater operating efficiencies and effectiveness for event team.
Supplier governance - work in conjunction with compliance, risk, procurement and event team members to manage interactions with suppliers & maximise relationships.
Develop, maintain, and improve relationships with agencies and external suppliers and nurture the development of existing business partnerships.
Deliver operational excellence in all facets of event planning and delivery.
Acutely manage expenses and budgets.
Deliver all post-event reporting and analysis.
We're interested in hearing from people who have
Exceptional stakeholder management experience and proven ability to influence complex senior stakeholder groups.
Extensive experience in large corporate organisation or finance, exposure to a corporate structure would be an advantage
Proven experience in employee engagement / recognition program planning and execution.
Demonstrated experience in using AI to plan and produce events
Ability to manage large volumes of work with competing priorities and deadlines.
Strategic thinking abilities, who can anticipate all tasks, and deeply understand overarching ripple effects and required actions, particularly when changes happen.
Experience working with constant change and ambiguity and proven ability to manage and deliver as required.
Work extremely well under pressure and remain calm to make decisions.
A strong ability to flex to ever-changing and fast paced needs of the organisation and events and manage multiple competing deadlines
Proven experience in running virtual and hybrid events and manage all AV and production suppliers and external agencies.
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with acute attention to detail.
Experience working independently as well as proven ability to work collaboratively to achieve an outcome.
Extensive experience with Aventri (Stova) or similar event registration management systems.
Proficient in MS suite of products, AI suite of tools such as Chat GPT and Co-Pilot, excellent Excel and PowerPoint skills.
A genuine enthusiasm for events and natural curiosity to seek the best strategy for a successful event, elevating the experience each time.
This is a full-time role (minimum 50% of your month in the office). After hours work and flexibility from time to time is required to deliver events. You must be able to travel as and when the event calendar requires.
If this sounds like the role for you, apply today
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