Associate Manager, Event Management

The Associate Manager, Event Management is an event specialist and local market expert. You will oversee the pre to post event responsibilities, from planning and preparation to execution and reporting. Event elements will often include staffing, product sampling, consumer engagement, asset transportation, POS coordination, and production. This role will report into the Regional Director. This role requires close collaboration with cross business counterpoints and serves as client contact. We ask that you have prior sampling event and production experience.Supervisory responsibilities, ongoing recruitment, hiring, training, and onboarding, and performance and financial management of part time and (if applicable) full time employees Follow standard operating procedures, policies, and protocols for issue resolution  Manage local warehousing with POS and special event assets. Ensuring assets are available/ operable for activations Socialize success and opportunities via program recaps, utilizing data and insights for real-time measurement & evaluation, event strategies and project plans/ volume phasing Manage cross agency and in-market communications. Serving as a local contact for Clients and key partners Approve and submits payroll and expenses for PTE and FTE employees (where applicable) Process payments for invoices from vendor partners Preparing, managing, and adhering to local market budgets Manage activation schedule, event deliverables, run of show, and staffing/ asset needs: Staff specialists/ Brand Ambassadors for sampling and special events through company staffing application  Coordinate transportation and kit logistics of large event assets. Supervise and/or staff on site production of local elevated/ experiential activations; utilizing a creative eye to bring Brands to life Audit events to ensure executional excellence and compliance with state sampling laws and local regulations This job may require on call and/or working some nights and weekends when event activations are being executed. This job requires travel within the assigned territories (cadence varies upon size of territory)