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Job Summary:

The Project Director, Global Events is passionate about marketing, events and project management. Your mission is to align people and processes across multiple regions and drive the creation and execution of phenomenal event experiences (primarily in EMEA and APAC) that engage attendees and meet our marketing and broader business objectives.

As a leader within the Global Events Team (GET) in D2L Marketing, you will lead the international events team and engage with departments across the organization—and around the world—to drive the international event strategy, planning, logistics, execution, and tracking of events and related campaigns, productions, and processes. You’ll create and manage memorable event experiences that generate leads, influence pipe, build on our brand momentum, and showcase our company, customers, and solutions.

How You Will Make an Impact:

• Create and drive strategic event plans and processes and work closely in partnership with regional event leads to support our international plans and global sales and marketing goals.
• Own event experiences, primarily in EMEA and APAC regions, from concept through completion – strategy, event planning and preparation and management of on-site logistics and production, as well as post-event reporting and follow-up - ensuring high-level service throughout.
• Lead cross-functional projects and own and manage plans, workloads, timelines, actions, tasks, dependencies, and budgets. Troubleshoot and handle issues, risk mitigation, and identify opportunities and new ideas to execute global event experiences.
• Provide direction and partner with various departments across multiple countries within the organization, as well as external clients, vendors, and others to establish needs for events throughout all the phases.
• Coordinate the development of materials, content, assets, messaging, and manage event technical, production, and logistical elements, and liaise and prepare speakers, sponsors, vendors, and enable event staff.
• Maintain global event calendar and track and report on global impact. Clearly communicate activities, goals and results to stakeholders.
• Use your process expertise to help teams monitor and optimize performance at every stage of the journey to ensure event experiences and related content/messaging/campaigns/plans are resonating, and identify how we can improve.
• Enable internal and external messengers to amplify messaging, drive event registrations, engagement, feedback, and follow-up through various channels.
• Nurture and build strong relationships with internal teams, external vendors, venues, and other industry contacts.
• Stay current and ahead of the curve on the key industry events to sponsor, as well as event planning, outreach, design and experience trends, with an eye towards continuous improvement, and sharing insights and learnings across the team.
• Manage the daily details with big-picture strategic thinking to ensure truly unique and immersive event experiences.

What You’ll Bring to the Role:

• Proficient project manager, with proven experience leading large cross-functional projects and programs and creating and optimizing cross-functional processes.
• A strong CV demonstrating proven experience and success managing and owning end-to-end planning and execution of in-person events.
• Strong people-leadership skills with experience managing direct reports.
• Experience creating marketing programs, campaigns, and experiences that truly impact the audiences they reach.
• Ability to think quickly under pressure, solve difficult problems, and make split-second decisions.
• Advanced collaboration, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to communicate complex information to others effectively and presents succinct, well-balanced information, with clear outcomes
• Capable of managing multiple priorities in parallel and meeting hard deadlines.
• Strong ability to coordinate not only your own tasks but also coordinate and drive cross-functional alignment and task accountability with others.
• Strong organization skills, including multi-tasking and time management.
• A self-motivated and outgoing individual with the ability to work independently and with a team.
• Great leadership qualities with the ability to delegate and clearly communicate responsibility to others to meet expectations.
• Meticulous attention to detail as there will be an element of administration duties, data entry, and contract, venue and technical reviews.
• Advanced MS Excel skills are an asset.
• Proficiency with Marketing and Project management tools and technologies preferred.
• Experience in building enriching working relationships and managing external vendor relationships, both in-person and remotely.
• Results driven with creative mindset and stamina to recommend and try new things and figure out how to continuously improve.
• Communication writing and/or copywriting experience is preferred.
• Knowledge of marketing demand generation funnel is an asset
• In addition to English, proficiency in additional languages, such as Spanish and/or Portuguese, would be an asset to this role that supports activities across several international regions.
• Flexibility to work even at irregular hours and to travel both domestic and internationally, as you’ll be coordinating with regions across the globe.