Events & Sponsorships Manager

No Relocation Assistance Offered
156527 - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

**Who We Are**
Colgate-Palmolive Company is a caring, innovative growth company that is reimagining a healthier future for all people, their pets and our planet. Focused on Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care and Pet Nutrition, we sell our products in more than 200 countries and territories under brands such as Colgate, Palmolive, elmex, hello, meridol, Sorriso, Tom's of Maine, EltaMD, Filorga, Irish Spring, PCA SKIN, Protex, Sanex, Softsoap, Speed Stick, Ajax, Axion, Fabuloso, Soupline and Suavitel, as well as Hill's Pet Nutrition.

We are recognized for our leadership and innovation in promoting sustainability and community wellbeing, including our achievements in decreasing plastic waste and promoting recyclability, saving water, conserving natural resources and improving children's oral health.

If you want to work for a company that lives by their values, then give your career a reason to smile and join our global team

**About Hill's**

We are **Hill's** - an innovative growth company reimagining a healthier future for all people, their pets, and our planet. We are part of **Colgate-Palmolive **a leading global consumer products company with a portfolio in Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care and Pet Nutrition.

At Hill's we have a purpose Every day around the world, we transform the lives of millions of pets through groundbreaking innovation, outstanding nutrition, and committed people.

Our strong culture of diversity, sustainability and inclusion is rooted in our core values of Caring, Global Collaboration and Continuous Improvement. Employees are rewarded by rich career development and experiences.

We pride ourselves on our work life balance, our focus on delivering high ethical standards and our dedication to developing our employees. With many local benefits such as Summer Hours, Live Better activities, Product Parcels and Health Checks

**Note - This will be a 12 months fixed term contract role.**

**Job Purpose**:
This role reports to the Professional Veterinary Affairs Manager and is responsible for enhancing professional engagement within the veterinary industry through conferences, events, industry partnerships and sponsored activities. This includes developing and implementing strategic plans to engage veterinary professionals and industry partners through face to face conferences, digital, and social media platforms. It is also responsible for executing Hill's own internal company conferences.

The role will involve relationship management and ongoing fulfilment of Hill's support of industry partners and associations, as well as management and negotiation of agreements, and ongoing analysis and optimisation of ROI with a view to identifying & leveraging business development opportunities.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Overall management, execution and oversight of sponsored, direct to profession and company conferences and related events for Australia and New Zealand.
- Ideate & execute bespoke trade exhibition solutions for the region in response to marketing strategy and business initiatives
- Research, brief, negotiate and manage event destinations, venues, staff and suppliers
- Briefing, overseeing, and monitoring fulfilment of work of external consultants and stakeholders
- Budget management, reporting and analysis of professional event engagements
- Develop the communication strategy for effective promotion of Hill's own events
- Work cross functionally with internal stakeholders & key account managers to understand requirements of key veterinary groups and ensure event obligations are fulfilled.
- Develop annual budgets and yearly events calendars, and provide ongoing financial management of events
- Report on and track event statistics to assist with future budget development and professional marketing strategies
- Manage online event management platform (CVENT), associated CRM integrations and add-ons to manage events to deliver 1P data through event engagement to both Australia & New Zealand veterinary professionals
- Oversee the day to day management of veterinary industry partner relationships and sponsorship agreements

**Required Qualifications**:

- Minimum 5 years event management experience
- Experience working in a corporate environment
- Experience using CVENT event management software

**Preferred Qualifications**:

- A Bachelor's Degree
- Strong relationship management and negotiation skills
- Ability to manage simultaneous projects and needs
- Adaptable/problem solving - Enjoys thinking outside the box and thinking creatively
- Outstanding communication skills with proven success in creating influential events, engagements, and multimedia content including copywriting
- Budget management and analysis
- Understanding of veterinary industry or previous health industry experience is highly regarded

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