Global Strategic Events Assistant Director

EY Studio+ Nederland•Los Angeles, CA

11d•Hybrid

About The Position

The EY Global Strategic Events and Experience team is a dynamic group dedicated to creating impactful and memorable experiences for clients, stakeholders, and employees. This team specializes in designing and executing high-profile events that align with EY's strategic objectives and enhance brand visibility. This role designs and delivers the brand experience for clients attending EY Events and externally projects the best of the EY brand. Success in the role depends upon practical experience of changing external brand perceptions through an event and experience-based strategy, the ability to navigate complex stakeholder management, creating linkage and connections to other parts of the business and inspiring a core team through leadership, relationships and clear direction. In this role, you will play an important part leading and working on some of EY’s innovative global flagship events. Being able to work at a fast pace is critical to your success, and being able to respond to unforeseen circumstances with a flexible mindset and ability is key. Amazing experience working across the globe delivering award winning events. Significant travel will be necessary.

Requirements

Experience in a cross-border role, successfully managing multiple complex event projects at a global level.
Considerable experience of delivering brand, marketing and communications projects in global organizations.
Experience managing diverse teams.
Outstanding communication skills.
A strong team player, comfortable working collaboratively, virtually and independently.
Strategic brand, marketing and communications expertise, including global event design and delivery experience, including third party event management and consultation eg: non-proprietary, sponsored events.
Ability to work in a high pace, agile environment.
Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines, managing multiple stakeholders, time zones and priorities effectively.
Ability to navigate through change and manage ambiguity including cultural awareness.

Nice To Haves

High level of influencing and networking skills.
Experience of delivering multiple events on a global basis.
Experience of leading under pressure.
Ability and willingness to be able to travel.

Responsibilities

Assist with the design and delivery of the event as the lynchpin and main point of co-ordination between all the various workstreams involved in the delivery of their allocated events.
Create a consistent brand experience through all facets of the events.
Ensures brand sign off processes are adhered to across the whole event.
Mentor junior personnel on the strategic events and experiences team to ensure consistent and leading-edge brand experience by capturing and deploying best practices as necessary.
Manage and drive forward the design and delivery of event related technology including complex and detailed registration sites and event apps and work closely with the event technology team.
Form part of multi-functional core teams to deliver events with a culture of high-performance teaming, and achieving market impact by managing the work-plan, timeline and budget of all elements of the programme.
Work closely with Legal, Procurement and Independence to ensure compliance for all events.
Seek connections across all of BMC to bring the best of EY to life (including sector, service lines, regions, and other BMC programs such as World Entrepreneur of the Year, International Tax Conference, Young Tax Professional of the Year, as well as industry/third party, sponsorship events.
Provide onsite support to manage various external vendors and agencies to ensure consistent delivery for their own events and supporting their colleagues.