Senior Event Operations Manager
Fidelity TalentSource is your destination for discovering your next temporary role at Fidelity Investments! We are currently sourcing for a Senior Event Operations Manager to work in our Boston, MA or Smithfield, RI locations!
The Role
In this role you will deliver best in class event experiences for the firm’s associates, clients, and prospects. They will have a natural curiosity about the business strategy and use their skills to create and flawlessly implement programmatic experiences that support the objectives.
The candidate will be experienced in the development of broad initiatives, while engaging in project management, including creating and managing budgets, creating timelines and workplans, leading planning meetings and working teams, and collaborating with senior leaders to provide frequent status updates. We are looking for a good communicator who keeps colleagues and partners informed. You will be in command of complex event logistics, including, but not limited to sourcing and managing speakers and vendors, and creating dynamic production schedules.
The Expertise and Skills you Bring
- Bachelor’s degree and at least 7 years of related work experience
- Advanced knowledge with operational and communications tools, or ability and desire to learn quickly: Microsoft Office, Cvent, TEAMS, Qualtrics (able to develop and maintain sites)
- Experience with knowledge of Zoom Meeting and Zoom Video Webinar
- Strong planning, project, event, and time management skills
- Proven ability to prioritize work and operate with an agile mindset
- Knowledge and experience with live event production including lighting, audio, video, and technical direction
- Mastery of Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word)
- Ability to create well designed, yet concise presentation decks using PowerPoint
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, including a command of proof reading
- Exceptional organizational skills
- Willingness to apply creative and critical thinking to routine and new events
- Negotiate powerfully with industry associations to secure Fidelity the best opportunities to generate brand awareness and acquire leads
- Experience crafting, planning, and driving multi-day, multi-faceted events
- Ability to lead working teams on complex programs – ensuring that all milestones and deadlines are met
- Work under tight deadlines and prioritize responsibilities
- Handle and maintain confidential information
- Thrive working on multiple, concurrent projects, and do so independently with little direction
The Team
The dynamic Meetings and Events team collaborate with business partners on the planning, budgeting, and design of all internal and client events. The team manages over 1000 events a year with a focus on creating seamless and memorable experiences that support business and firm-wide objectives.
Dynamic Working
At Fidelity TalentSource, our goal is for most people to work flexibly in a way that balances both personal and business needs with time onsite and offsite through what we call “Dynamic Working.” Most associates will have a hybrid schedule with a requirement to work onsite at a Fidelity location for at least one week, 5 consecutive days, every four weeks. These requirements are subject to change.
Company Overview
Fidelity TalentSource is the in-house temporary staffing provider for Fidelity Investments, one of the largest and most diversified global financial services firms in the industry. We welcome individuals from all backgrounds, including technology and customer service, to fill assignments across Fidelity’s U.S.-based regional and investor center locations. If you would like to experience Fidelity’s supportive and collaborative culture while expanding your skill set and developing your professional network, consider a role with Fidelity TalentSource. Apply today at FTSJobs.com.
We believe that the most effective way to attract, develop and retain a diverse workforce is to build an enduring culture of inclusion and belonging.
Fidelity TalentSource will reasonably accommodate applicants with disabilities who need adjustments to participate in the application or interview process. To initiate a request for an accommodation, please contact our HR team at HR@ ftsjobs.com.
Information about Fidelity investments
At Fidelity Investments, our customers are at the heart of everything we do. As a privately held company with a rich 75-year history, our mission has remained the same since our founding: to strengthen the financial well-being of our clients. We help people invest and plan for their future. We assist companies and non-profit organizations in delivering benefits to their employees. And we provide institutions and independent advisors with investment and technology solutions to help invest their own clients’ money. For information about working at Fidelity, visit FidelityCareers.com.
Fidelity TalentSource’s working model blends the best of working offsite with maximizing time together in person to meet associate and business needs. Currently, most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite all business days of one assigned week per four-week period (beginning in September 2024, the requirement will be two full assigned weeks).
Fidelity Investments and Fidelity TalentSource are equal opportunity employers.