Events & Travel Lead

Yamaha Corporation•,

6h•$88,000 - $109,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Yamaha employees are committed to helping everyone progress, express and connect through music and sound. We offer innovative, finely crafted and award-winning products for the entire journey. Yamaha promises to help people progress, express, and connect through music and sound. The purpose of this role is to enable the ability to leverage trade and customer-facing events as a sales, marketing and branding tool.

Requirements

Demonstrated success at leading event planning
Project management experience
Travel as required up to 30%
Budget management
Customer Experience: Define desired customer experience to achieve satisfaction and loyalty throughout the customer journey
Customer Insights: Ability to understand and interpret customer data, behaviors, and feedback into conclusions that can be used to make marketing decisions
Design: Create visual content to effectively share product and brand attributes with target audience
Event Management: Manage face-to-face and virtual events that enable contact between Yamaha and potential customers
Project Management: Plan, organize, and manage tasks and resources to bring about successful completion of a specific project
Project Procurement Management: Acquire products, services, or results from an external source; include contract management and control processes necessary to administer contracts, properly manage the buyer/vendor relationships, and manage the project’s obligations to the vendor
Project Scope Management: Ensure all project work is included, while maintaining appropriate limit and control of the scope
Yamaha Way (Will, Integrity, Initiative, Challenge, Commitment)
Customer Focus
Decision Quality
Plans and Aligns
Collaborates
Self-Development
Situational Adaptability

Responsibilities

Lead select tier 1, 2 and 3 tradeshow and customer-facing events
Report on performance provide actionable insights
Manage vendor relationships
Adapt category strategies into event strategic plans
Provide corporate travel services
Ensure managed events achieve brand and business objectives
Events executed within approved budget
Easy and efficient travel services are provided to YCA employees & customers

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits package including Medical, Vision, Dental, LTD, Life-Insurance and 401k with match AND automatic contributions
Performance based bonus program
Robust employee wellness programs including free music lessons
Generous Wellness reimbursement program
Tobacco cessation reward program
Private concerts from award winning artists
Discounted hotel, travel, entertainment, and other attractions
Employee product purchase program
Flexible work schedule
Vacation, sick-time and personal floating holidays
Monthly events, for example -- Bring Your Dog to Work Day, Employee Singing Competitions, Spirit Week and other fun events
Inclusive and passionate culture
We foster a culture in which everyone feels welcomed, included, and valued; and recognize that diversity contributes to the success of Yamaha