Event Planner

3 weeks ago

Brisbane, Australia HeadBox Australia Full time

**Event Planner**

HeadBox is on the hunt for an Event Planner to join our rapidly expanding team. We’re Australia’s fastest growing event technology and event management agency, on a mission to reinvent the global events industry through human-kind event technology.

HeadBox partners with organizations to support them in delivering their annual program of events. Ranging from private dinners to multi-day events, this role offers a huge variety of event planning. We’re an ambitious team with big goals and are looking for someone who is ready to join a high-growth brand with an abundance of opportunity.

We’ve built beautiful technology to seamlessly plan, manage and track events. This is where you come in Leveraging our ecosystem of technology, this role presents an exciting opportunity to work with our corporate client base to plan brilliant events through to the contracting stage.

**The Role**

The Event Planner role will be based in Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane and will remotely plan event briefs Australia-wide. We are looking for someone ambitious, a self-starter, a problem solver, and ready to get stuck in This role will require a minimum of 2 years’ event experience (be that event sales, venue side or event management). Attention to detail and organisation will be key to this role, as you manage multiple events and tasks.

**Responsibilities**
- **Event Proposals**: this is a 360 role whereby you will be qualifying the clients’ brief, creating bespoke event proposals based on the clients’ needs, taking the client on site visits (if applicable), negotiating costs with venues/suppliers and contracting the event, within set deadlines.
- **Client Pitches**: you will have to present and pitch your event proposal to stakeholders with confidence and credibility, whilst handling their feedback and objections, and providing creative solutions.
- **Sales Delivery**:you will be responsible for delivering monthly sales targets via your event pipeline. We are looking for someone commercially minded to be confident in up-selling both suppliers and event management.
- **Excellent Customer Service**: we put clients at the centre of everything we do, including delivering brilliant customer service at every touchpoint. High written and verbal skills and attention to detail are essential.
- **Client Relationships**: building and retaining strong relationships with your clients will be at the centre of your role, which will ensure you are their go-to event planner for their next event.

**Requirements**:

- **Willingness to learn**: there is a lot to learn about the industry, our technology, and our client base, so a desire to learn is essential for the role.
- **Attention to detail**: you’ll be pitching and planning multiple events at any one time so it is imperative you are detail-oriented and organised.
- **Hardworking**: at a start-up you will be required to wear many hats, balancing lots of responsibilities at once and have a can-do attitude.
- **Be great to work with**: we’re looking for someone who embodies the HeadBox values of brilliance, integrity, empathy, and curiosity.

**Package and Perks**
- Competitive, above-award salary + commission and discretionary bonus
- Flexi-hours - ‘life’ happens and so we want to ensure you’re able to juggle it all
- A mix of office & work-from-home days - we trust you to get the job done, wherever you are
- Volunteering days to contribute to the HeadBox Social Mission
- Regular training sessions with Senior Management or external providers
- Company MacBook
- Friday office (or virtual) drinks

HeadBox is 100% committed to building a diverse and representative team. Whatever your race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability - we would love to hear from you.

If this sounds like the ideal opportunity for you, submit your cover letter & CV.

**Benefits**:

- Professional development assistance
- Work from home

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

- Bonus
- Commission

**Experience**:

- Event planning: 1 year (required)

Work Authorisation:

- Australia (preferred)

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