Corporate Events Planner

Company: Cinemark
Location: Plano
Posted on: June 22, 2022

Job Description:

Headquartered in Plano, TX, Cinemark Holdings, Inc. is a leader in the motion picture exhibition industry with 500+ theatres in the U.S. and Latin America. Join Our Team!Do you enjoy working together as a team to accomplish major goals? Join Cinemark to utilize and expand your skills! We are dedicated to making the movie experience memorable, "One Guest at a time." Not only are we in the movie business, we are also in the people business. Our world class talent creates a warm and friendly culture through shared values. Allow Cinemark to provide you growth and leadership opportunities for the long term.What is a Corporate Events Planner?The Corporate Events Planner is responsible for supporting Cinemark objectives by contributing to the design, development and execution of a variety of employee events. Candidates will bring experience in corporate event planning for meetings, incentives, conventions and sponsorship events. This team works "hands on" with event technology, so experience leading team process improvement leveraging technology resources is required. Individual needs to have experience with complex budget management, strong communication skills and strong project management skills. This role needs to collaborate, communicate and interact with employees including all levels of corporate management, internal colleagues, retailers, brokers, and suppliers to maximize event effectiveness. The role requires significant 'customer first' orientation, strong project management, keen attention to detail and ability to effectively manage multiple priorities.A Day in the Life of a Corporate Events Planner:

• This person must actively seek to contribute to a best-in-class team on a daily basis. In addition, the role requires high personal levels of judgment, drive and influence.
• This individual will interact with senior leadership and should have a polished presence and should be able to manage and communicate Cinemark's objectives, priorities and expectations to internal and external customers
• Provide continuous coaching and mentoring support to assisting staff. Collaborate and implement individual developmental plans with specific measurable, achievable, and competitive goals. Monitor and evaluate progress on business and developmental objectives.
• Leverage strong project management discipline to establish planning principles, critical dates and deliverable expectations for all events. Direct the planning, development and execution of all elements required for approximately 15 corporate events annually. Develop program structure and elements based on key brand initiatives and marketing objectives.
• Execute and manage all program elements including registration planning, hotel and housing planning, authoring communications, planning transportation (air & ground), audio/visual production, product/brand provisioning, etc. Establish overall program objectives; develop and implement measurement tools to determine performance. Analyze program objectives and performance and provide comprehensive evaluations for all events upon their conclusion measuring ROI.
• Evaluate and recommend program structure changes or enhancements for continuous improvement. Provide leadership and management to overall program budgets and financial processes for Corporate Events. Oversee and manage budgets for all event programs through strategic forecasting and monitoring of all expenditures to fully leverage event potential.
• Ensure that budget forecasts and updates and complete budget reconciliations for each event are submitted to the appropriate stakeholders. Analyze program charges/invoices and maintain budget reconciliations.
• Demonstrate ability to update, maintain and analyze measurement tools. Perform ongoing research on our strengths and opportunity areas, as well as those of our competitors. Leverage functional expertise, supplier/partner knowledge and industry information to drive thought leadership in partnership marketing and assist business leaders with tackling pressing issues You Will Need to Have:
  • Bachelor's degree or MBA preferred Minimum of 7+ years in event planning/management or corporate sponsorships industry
  • Working knowledge of event planning technology and track record of leveraging technology for maximum efficiency
  • Strong negotiation skills Strong oral, written and presentation skills
  • Excellent communication skills, both cross functionally, vertically, both internally and externally at all levels
  • Excellent project management and leadership skills
  • Track record of managing and working with high performing team with structured performance management processes
  • Managing all aspects of the event planning process and coordinating with other departments to ensure that all details are taken care of
  • Review invoices from vendors to ensure accuracyThis job description is not an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, skills, efforts, requirements or working conditions associated with the job. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, management reserves the right to revise the job or to require that other or different tasks be performed as assigned. Cinemark USA, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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