As an Event Manager at Rock Events, you’ll conceptualize, plan, and execute special events, meetings, experiential activations, incentive travel, parties, award show charity functions, and more. This role requires a high level of creativity, strong event design skills, strategic thinking, and the ability to create compelling and memorable experiences for our clients.
About the role
- Work with clients to assess goals, timelines and budgets in order to produce
- outstanding events
- Solicit quotes for food/beverage selections, arrangements for audiovisual service, transportation, travel, entertainment, decor, venue, etc.
- Propose theming, look and feel, and other event elements to client
- Conceptualize, plan, and execute immersive experiences
- Create planning cadence and timeline and provide ongoing updates to team of planners, vendors, clients and leadership
- Develop detailed, run-of-show documents for events, from load-in through show and load-out
- Oversee event expenses from quote through requisition/payment and tracking of expenses for reporting
- Source city locations, venues, travel, arrangements and other event elements for incentive trips and out-of-town events
- Manage registration process for events
- Manage volunteer workforce for events
- Stage management
- Collaborate with the Event Graphic Design team to produce various email communications, PowerPoint and Keynote presentations, registrations, post-event surveys and printed collaterals for events
- Supervise Event Production interns
About you
- 3 years of full-time experience planning and executing events with a heavy
- focus on event design and decor
- Experience in creative event production, experiential events, and brand activations
- Strong creative vision and storytelling ability
- Ability to leverage trend and technology insights, event storytelling, and an understanding of company culture to create forward-thinking and culturally relevant experiences
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Strong organizational skills with exceptional attention to detail
- Proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite, particularly Excel
What you’ll get
Our team members fuel our strategy, innovation and growth, so we ensure the health and well-being of not just you, but your family, too! We go above and beyond to give you the support you need on an individual level and offer all sorts of ways to help you live your best life. We are proud to offer eligible team members perks and health benefits that will help you have peace of mind. Simply put: We’ve got your back. Check out our full list of Benefits and Perks.
About us
Rock Events is a premiere team of event professionals who provide event production, business travel and hospitality services to Rocket Companies®, in addition to venue sales for some of the most sought-after event spaces in the city of Detroit. Born out of** **the Rock Family of Companies, Rock Events has managed many of Detroit’s largest gatherings for more than 15 years.
This job description is an outline of the primary responsibilities of this position and may be modified at the discretion of the company at any time. Decisions related to employment are not based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, military or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law. The company provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with applicable state and federal laws. Applicants requiring reasonable accommodations in completing the application and/or participating in the application process should contact a member of the Human Resources team, at Careers@Rocket.com.