Events Specialist

Events Specialist

**Primary Details**
Time Type: Full time

Worker Type: Employee

**Events Specialist**
- Location: Sydney
- Type: Fixed term contract & Permanent position available

**The opportunity**

Are you a process-driven and innovative professional with a knack for delivering exceptional events? We're seeking an **Events Specialist** to lead and manage the development, implementation, and delivery of event campaigns. From corporate and hospitality events to virtual and diversity-focused initiatives, you'll manage multiple end-to-end projects, engaging internal and external audiences. This role offers the chance to bring your ideas to life while collaborating with diverse teams and leveraging cutting-edge tools like Salesforce and Marketing Cloud.

**Your new role**

As an Events Specialist, you will:

- Lead and deliver end-to-end event campaigns across corporate, virtual, and national platforms.
- Work closely with the Events Manager and broader departments to ensure the successful roll out of the events calendar
- Collaborate with clients and working groups to set clear objectives, budgets, and roles.
- Align event strategies with broader business, marketing, and communication plans.
- Maintenance and reporting of financial budgets, ticketing, events data as required by compliance and in-direct tax

**About you**

**To be successful in this role, you will**:

- Have experience using Salesforce & Marketing Cloud (highly regarded)
- Be a team player with a focus on collaboration and new ideas.
- Have proven experience in planning, budgeting, executing, and evaluating medium to large-scale, virtual, and in-person events.
- Possess strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
- Manage multiple events simultaneously, balancing priorities and multitasking naturally.
- Be digitally savvy, with experience in delivering hybrid and digital events.
- Demonstrate excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
- Be self-motivated, able to work both autonomously and within a team to achieve goals.
- Have the ability to meet deadlines and work efficiently under tight timeframes.
- Possess a risk mindset, proactively identifying and understanding current and future risk processes.

**About QBE**

We can never really predict what's around the corner, but at QBE we're asking the right questions to enable a more resilient future - helping those around us build strength and embrace change to their advantage. We're an international insurer that's building momentum towards realising our vision of becoming the most consistent and innovative risk partner.

And our people will be at the centre of our success. We're proud to work together, and encourage each other enable resilience for our customers, our environment, our economies and our communities. With more than more than 13,000 people working across 27 countries, we're big enough to make a real impact, but small enough to provide a friendly workplace, where people are down-to-earth, passionate and kind.

We believe this is our moment - what if it was yours too? Your career at QBE - let's make it happen

**Benefits**

We offer a range of benefits to help provide holistic support for your work life, whatever your circumstances. As a QBE employee you will have access to and benefit from:

- 'Hybrid Working' - a mix of working from home and in the office to enhance your work/life balance
- Our 'Thriving at our Best' wellbeing program, including free holistic wellbeing coaching, nutritional, confidential counselling, financial and legal advice
- 18 weeks' gender-equal flexible leave for all new parents, including paid super
- The ability to maximise retirement savings through voluntary super contributions and company matching
- Income protection insurance & reimbursed Death and Total Permanent Disability insurance premiums
- Discounts on insurance products, car hire, hotels, goods and services including benefits through our various sports and arts sponsorship partners

**Rewards & Recognition**

We value our employee's experience with us and are proud to have been recognised for the following awards:

- 2021 LinkedIn Top Employer & HRD Employer of Choice
- 2020 Best Workplace Diversity & Inclusion and Excellence Award for Best Health & Wellbeing at the Australian HR Awards
- Platinum employer on the Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI) - the definitive national benchmark on LGBTQI+ workplace inclusion
- Ranked 3rd place in the AAGE Top Graduate Employers 2024 for medium sized program as voted by graduates
- Top 20 Workplaces for Dads in 2019 and 2020 (HBF Direct Advice for Dads)
- Family First accredited employer since 2021

**and let's make it happen**

**Skills**:
Analytical Thinking, Business-To-Business (B2B) Marketing, Communication, Cost Management, Critical Thinking, Decision Making, Event Management, Intentional collaboration, Managing performance, Marketing Communications Planning, Project