Event Logistics and Operations Planner

The Event Logistics and Operations Planner covering Mobile Units & Venue Capex is someone with a passion for live experiences. This person will work closely with our Experiential Team and agency partners to ensure events and venues across the country are showing up with the right brands. This person is organized, communicative, creative and enjoys collaboration.

The Company is one of North America’s leading sales and marketing agencies specializing in outsourced sales, merchandising, category management, and marketing services to manufacturers, suppliers, and producers of food products and consumer packaged goods. The Company services a variety of trade channels including grocery, mass merchandise, specialty, convenience, drug, dollar, club, hardware, consumer electronics, and home centers. We bridge the gap between manufacturers and retailers, providing consumers access to the best products available in the marketplace today.

Essential Responsibilities

• Agency Management – Mobile Unit Transportation/Venue and Stadium Production
• Budget Management, planning and executing events with Mobile Unit Fleet and all stadium/venue buildouts
• Program recaps to keep stakeholders informed. Work closely with Experiential team.
• Mobile Unit day-to-day contact: basic understanding of transportation logistics with mobile units
• Capex budget management for all materials installed or delivered to venues including branded spaces build outs and carts/kiosks: project managed buildouts with agency partner; keep region stakeholders informed
• Data tracking: use of PowerBI to pull reporting on Mobile Unit Fleet, and maintain tracking for all capex materials

Supervisory Responsibilities

Direct Reports
- This position does not have supervisory responsibilities for direct reports

Travel and/or Driving Requirements

Flexible to travel 

Minimum Qualifications 
Education Level: (Required): Associate's Degree or equivalent experience
4-6 years of experience

Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities
Communication, presentation, organization and time management.
Relationship management skills.
Maintain/understand and communicate budget reports
Event and activation and/or production experience

Environmental & Physical Requirements
Office / Sedentary Requirements: Incumbent must be able to perform the essential functions of the job. Work is performed primarily in an office environment. Typically, requires the ability to sit for extended periods of time (66%+ each day), ability to hear telephone, ability to enter data on a computer and may require the ability to lift up to 10lbs.

Additional Information Regarding Job Duties and Job Descriptions
Job duties include additional responsibilities as assigned by one’s supervisor or other manager related to the position/department. This job description is meant to describe the general nature and level of work being performed; it is not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required for the position. The Company reserves the right at any time with or without notice to alter or change job responsibilities, reassign or transfer job positions, or assign additional job responsibilities, subject to applicable law. The Company shall provide reasonable accommodations of known disabilities to enable a qualified applicant or employee to apply for employment, perform the essential functions of the job, or enjoy the benefits and privileges of employment as required by the law.

Job Will Remain Open Until Filled

The Company is one of North America’s leading sales and marketing agencies specializing in outsourced sales, merchandising, category management, and marketing services to manufacturers, suppliers, and producers of food products and consumer packaged goods. The Company services a variety of trade channels including grocery, mass merchandise, specialty, convenience, drug, dollar, club, hardware, consumer electronics, and home centers. We bridge the gap between manufacturers and retailers, providing consumers access to the best products available in the marketplace today.

Essential Responsibilities

• Agency Management – Mobile Unit Transportation/Venue and Stadium Production
• Budget Management, planning and executing events with Mobile Unit Fleet and all stadium/venue buildouts
• Program recaps to keep stakeholders informed. Work closely with Experiential team.
• Mobile Unit day-to-day contact: basic understanding of transportation logistics with mobile units
• Capex budget management for all materials installed or delivered to venues including branded spaces build outs and carts/kiosks: project managed buildouts with agency partner; keep region stakeholders informed
• Data tracking: use of PowerBI to pull reporting on Mobile Unit Fleet, and maintain tracking for all capex materials

Supervisory Responsibilities

Direct Reports
- This position does not have supervisory responsibilities for direct reports

Travel and/or Driving Requirements

Flexible to travel 

Minimum Qualifications 
Education Level: (Required): Associate's Degree or equivalent experience
4-6 years of experience

Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities
Communication, presentation, organization and time management.
Relationship management skills.
Maintain/understand and communicate budget reports
Event and activation and/or production experience

Environmental & Physical Requirements
Office / Sedentary Requirements: Incumbent must be able to perform the essential functions of the job. Work is performed primarily in an office environment. Typically, requires the ability to sit for extended periods of time (66%+ each day), ability to hear telephone, ability to enter data on a computer and may require the ability to lift up to 10lbs.

Additional Information Regarding Job Duties and Job Descriptions
Job duties include additional responsibilities as assigned by one’s supervisor or other manager related to the position/department. This job description is meant to describe the general nature and level of work being performed; it is not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required for the position. The Company reserves the right at any time with or without notice to alter or change job responsibilities, reassign or transfer job positions, or assign additional job responsibilities, subject to applicable law. The Company shall provide reasonable accommodations of known disabilities to enable a qualified applicant or employee to apply for employment, perform the essential functions of the job, or enjoy the benefits and privileges of employment as required by the law.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this position. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of associates so classified.

The Company is committed to providing equal opportunity in all employment practices without regard to age, race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, religion, physical or mental disability, or any other category protected by law. As part of this commitment, the Company shall provide reasonable accommodations of known disabilities to enable an applicant or employee to apply for employment, perform the essential functions of the job, or enjoy the benefits and privileges of employment as required by law.