Meeting & Events Specialist

JOB DESCRIPTION:

- High school diploma required, Associates Degree or relevant work experience preferred.
- Requires a minimum of five years meeting planning experience.
- Must be a Certified Meeting Professional (CMP) in current standing.
- Ability to travel domestically for business (approximately 50-75% of the time).
- Ability to maintain flexibility and teamwork in a fast-paced, demanding work environment, including overtime and weekend work as required.
- Highly motivated, organized and capable of functioning independently and a readiness to assume responsibility.
- Strong budgeting and negotiation skills.
- Superior PC, word processing, Access, Powerpoint, and Excel skills
- Strong on-line registration capabilities and reporting
- Ability to manage multiple overlapping meetings simultaneously and be able to prioritize workload.
- Must be able to manage multiple overlapping projects and manage assistant and/or vendors as required.
- Must have strong oral and written communications skills.
- Proactively identify challenges and offer solutions
- Must enforce that all corporate policies and procedures are followed as they pertain to meetings/events and conferences, travel, etc no exceptions.

1. Plan off site business meetings and events. This includes but is not limited to: venue/site selection, contract negotiation, budgeting, client liaison, ground transportation, audio visual/staging, management of room block, rooming lists, travel arrangement coordination with internal travel dept., all logistical information, management of external vendors, group activities, reconciliation of all invoices, manage budgets, and on-site coordination.

Synectics is an Equal Opportunity Employer.