Talent Events Specialist

General Motors • Warren, MI

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Talent Events Specialist oversees the coordination, logistics, results and strategies of conferences and events to drive awareness, engagement and attraction of top talent within critical talent pools. This position enables events across our experienced and early career talent pipelines who are engaged with General Motors to strengthen our positioning as a global employer of choice.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in marketing, recruitment event planning or recruiting related field
• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, business or related field preferred, or equivalent work experience
• Experience with event planning logistics and vendor relationship management
• Strong skills in maintaining budget
• Strong social and communications skills (verbal and written) with excellent organizational skills, time management and priority setting
• GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role. Do not apply for this role if you will need GM immigration sponsorship now or in the future. This includes direct company sponsorship, entry of GM as the immigration employer of record on a government form, and any work authorization requiring a written submission or other immigration support from the company (e.g., H1-B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc).
• This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the selected candidate is expected to report to a specific location at least 3 times a week or other frequency dictated by their manager}. The selected candidate will be required to travel <25% for this role.
• This job is not eligible for relocation benefits. Any relocation costs would be the responsibility of the selected candidate.
• This position requires the ability to legally operate a motor vehicle on a regular basis.
• A company vehicle will only be provided for this role by passing the Motor Vehicle Report review.

Nice To Haves

• Preferred experience working with job boards to drive interest to key events
• Preferred experience working in events and conferences in the tech space to attract talent
• Experience with social/digital media programs, including social amplification platforms, content management systems (CMS) or candidate relationship management (CRM)

Responsibilities

• Acts as a talent events project manager leading the strategy, activation, and evaluation for conferences, events, and community partnership activations associated with manufacturing and other key talent pools
• Partners with vendors associated with event activation fulfillment, including event logistics, assets/inventory, swag, and other resources to create compelling event experiences
• Works in close partnership with GTA delivery leads, marketing, communications, and business partners to ensure strategies are being developed and performed to drive engagement and attraction of key talent audiences through events and conferences
• Manages events and conference budget including forecast and reviewing historical trends to positively influence future event strategies
• Serves as a point of contact for manufacturing talent event requests and needs, and responds to needs in a timely manner
• Analyzes, monitors, and reports on actionable event insights and trends to assess performance and engagement for event and conference talent attraction results
• Works in close partnership with GM’s global talent brand team to utilize compelling branding and interactive experiences at events attract top, diverse talent and build positive employer brand reputation
• Research and presents new opportunities and trends to optimize event performance for key talent audiences
• Partners with employee engagement and volunteerism teams to plan, execute, and evaluate talent events associated with community and workforce development partnerships for talent attraction and hiring needs
• Shares current and emerging opportunities, trends, and best practices associated with events and conferences
• Contributes to GTA’s event calendar to offer real-time management of active and future events across talent acquisition, marketing and communications, and within key business functions
• Utilizes CRM and other technologies to create mechanisms to capture talent at events and drive pre-event and post-event engagement to maximize prospective talent experience from event activations
• Works in close partnership with talent marketing, EEV and ERG leaders to reach and engage with diverse talent
• Develops and deliver compelling campaigns to re-engage previous event leads for talent pipelining

Benefits

• From day one, we're looking out for your well-being–at work and at home–so you can focus on realizing your ambitions.
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What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level