Events Specialist

Primary Details

Time Type: Full time

Worker Type: Employee

Events Specialist

Location: Sydney, New South Wales

Type: Permanent, Full-Time

At QBE, our purpose is to enable a more resilient future.

We’re an international insurer and reinsurer with a local presence in 27 countries.

Leveraging our deep expertise and insights, QBE offers commercial, personal and specialty products and risk management solutions to help people and businesses manage risks, build strength and embrace change to their advantage.

We’ve been cultivating resilience since 1886, when our founders started a marine insurance company in Townsville, Australia to give early pioneers a safeguard against uncertainty.

Today, we employ more than 11,600 people around the world, and our product portfolio includes property, motor, crop, energy, marine and aviation insurance.

The opportunity

We are currently looking for an experienced Events Specialist to join our team on a full-time basis, located in Sydney. This is a fantastic opportunity to utilise your strong events and project management experience to lead and manage the development, implementation and delivery of events campaigns across QBE. You will be tasked with managing multiple events end to end delivering to the internal and external audiences, an array of corporate, hospitality, virtual, national, diversity and sponsorship events. The key responsibilities and attributes for this role include the following, but not limited to:

- Lead the successful delivery of events plan by ensuring they are delivered to deadline, project/leverage plans with the following in place event orders, project plans and briefing documents
- Work closely with the Events Manager and broader departments to align and integrate business strategy, marketing and communications are integrated with event plans
- Prepare and ensure the successful roll out of the events calendar
- Prepare conference activation strategies
- Evaluating and measuring the success of events implementation and roll out providing detailed, high quality reports to stakeholders
- Managing a variety of key stakeholders to deliver the desired outcome
- Maintenance and reporting of financial budgets, ticketing, events data as required by compliance and in-direct tax
- The opportunity includes travel around Australia, and requires flexible working hours

Your story so far

You are team player who will become part of a larger team bringing in new ideas, collaborating with a focus on team first ethos. You will have proven experience in planning, budgeting, execution, and evaluation of medium, large, virtual and in-person events. A strong background in stakeholder management and are able to keep up with a fast-paced environment, juggling priorities and multitasking comes natural to you.
- At least 5 years + in an events related role
- Proven skills and experience in complex, multi-stakeholder project management
- Strong experience in event implementation with the ability to work on multiple events at once
- Digitally savvy with proven experience delivering hybrid and digital events
- Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills
- Self motivated, able to work autonomously and part of a team to achieve set goals
- Ability to meet deadlines and work in a fast paced environment with tight time frames
- Risk mindset and proactively identify and understand the current and future risks processes

We are here to support you

We offer a range of benefits to help provide holistic support for your work life, whatever your circumstances. As an 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 ‘At My Best’ wellbeing program, including free holistic wellbeing coaching, nutritional, confidential counselling, financial and legal advice
- 12 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

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
- Gold Employer status for 2019 & 2020 Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI) - the definitive national benchmark on LGBTI workplace inclusion
- Ranked 6th place in the AAGE Top Graduate Employers 2021 as voted by graduates
- Top 20 Workplaces for Dads in 2019 and 2020 (HBF Direct Advice for Dads)

Join us

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