Event Manager

**Role Description**:
Our Global Marketing & Digital Communications Department in Basel is an agile multi cultural and customer centricic high performance team. We are looking for an Event Manager to strengthen our Global Event Management Team. It provides leadership, consulting, design and execution for events and live communication, connecting event management, branding, digital marketing, marketing communications, sales and medical education beyond organizational and geographic boundaries and beyond physical and virtual formats.
You will take over an active and demanding part mastering all event management steps and phases from kick-off, concept, budget, planning, design, execution up to the final debriefing. Depending on your assignment, you cover operational and / or more strategic roles.

This position is initally temporary but could have the opportunity for permanent employment after the contract is finished.

**Tasks**:

- Organize assigned international key events, mainly in dental care environment
- Set a clear governance with roles and responsibilities for each event to make sure that any event is run smoothly by a well-balanced team; build smart sub teams
- Produce detailed and convincing proposals for events (including timelines, venues, suppliers, legal obligations, staffing and budgets, etc)
- Research venues, suppliers, and contractors
- Manage and coordinate suppliers and all event logistics (i.e. venue, catering, travel, booth building and more)
- Liaise with sales and marketing teams to promote event internally and externally
- Manage pre-event planning, eventually speakers and delegate packs
- Coordinate suppliers, handle requests and troubleshoot on the day of the event to ensure that all runs smoothly
- Manage a team of staff, giving full briefings
- Organize facilities i.e. for car parking, traffic control, security, first aid, hospitality and the media
- Make sure that insurance, legal, health and safety obligations are followed; follow the high compliance standards of our industry
- Oversee mantling and dismantling and removal of the event and clear the venue efficiently
- Produce post-event evaluation to inform future events
- Work closely with branding department and digital marketing teams
**Profile**:

- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in business, marketing or event management or any related area
- Formal event management certificate
- Strong project management skills: project management certificate is an advantage
- 10 year’s experience in an international marketing and / or event environment with matrix organization preferably in healthcare, pharma, life science etc.
- Good commercial/ business, digital marketing, and event understanding
- Good team worker paired with a strong sense of accountability
- Passionate, straight forward and performance driven individual with entrepreneurial spirit and strong execution abilities; High level of integrity and commitment
- International agency background is of advantage
- Excellent organizational and communication skills
- Able to achieve pragmatic results in a dynamic environment
- Proactive and accountable person with distinct interpersonal skills to cultivate a network of effective working relationships in an international matrix environment; used to live and work in a multicultural environment
- Fluent in English (written and spoken), any other language is an advantage

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability.
**Employment Type**:Contract
**Alternative Locations**:Switzerland : Basel
**Travel Percentage**:0 - 10%
**Requisition ID**:4908