Event Manager – East – Well-Assembled Meetings

The Event Manager is responsible for creating impactful and memorable event experiences that will increase customer acquisition, engagement, loyalty and retention. This role is responsible for strategizing, executing, promoting and managing all aspects of events including but not limited to onboarding educational materials, tradeshow and regional event management. This position will be a member of the Well-Assembled team and will be assigned to manage and lead specific annual meetings. The successful candidate must have a thorough understanding of what it takes to produce an event from concept to completion. Must be results and data-driven, passionate about medical education, events and digital marketing.

You should be comfortable operating in a fast-paced, ever changing environment and dealing with highly ambiguous problems, taking full control and responsibility for finding solutions. You should be a self-starter and be comfortable working from home and on the road and with team members from any timezone. This is part-time contract position — you will only work on the meetings you are assigned.

Primary Responsibilities:

You will be working with event steering committees to bring events from concept to reality. You will accomplish this by assisting members of the Steering Committee to create compelling event content and by creating marketing messaging for the event that align with meeting goals.
You will act act as a project manager and are responsible for all tactical and logistical planning & execution of meetings, tradeshows, conferences you are assigned.
As project manager you will develop objectives, mission statements, target audience statements for the event that align with marketing strategy and event goals.
You will manage contract negotiations including but not limited to tradeshows, hotels, conference centers, advertising, catering and various types of suppliers.
You are responsible for event promotion and sponsorships and revenue opportunities.
You will track and report event and education program results, uncovering insights for improvement, efficiencies, and cost reduction.
You will utilize creativity and resourcefulness to develop budget conscious programs and events while still producing innovative and industry-leading results
You should be able to assess new ways to grow event attendance by leveraging event advertising, targeted lists, and other external marketing opportunities.
You will provide support for other team members meetings when applicable.

Desired skills/experience:

3+ years of relevant event and education experience
Ability to think strategically while executing at a detailed level
Excellent at handling multiple projects with tight timelines
Project management experience
Online and Social media experience

Well-Assembled Meetings is based out of Portland, Oregon and focuses on providing professional medical meeting management services for medical meetings. Annually over 4500 people attend WAM managed events for continuing medical education credits, networking and knowledge sharing. At the heart of Well-Assembled Meetings is a community of Medical Professionals sharing personal experiences and knowledge to make the world of medicine a little less magic and a lot more scientific.