Events & Exhibitions Manager
Concord, MA 
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Posted 15 days ago
Job Description

At Oxford Instruments, we enable the world's leading industrial companies and scientific research communities to image, analyse and manipulate materials down to the atomic and molecular level. With a sixty-year history, and fourteen Queen's Awards for Enterprise, our world-class products and technologies are helping our customers to address the greatest challenges of the 21st century.

How we work

We're committed to being the leading provider of high-tech products and services for the world's most important industrial and scientific research communities. Our people are vital to our success. We strive to offer the opportunities that will attract, motivate and retain the very best talent in our sector. This involves creating an inclusive environment and culture, where difference is valued and people are recognized for what they deliver and bring to the team.

Empowering People to Make a Difference

We don't wait for change to happen. We enable it. That's why we aim to create the best working environment and culture for our people to thrive. We share the same goals and value diversity of thought, perspective and experience. With a focus on the ongoing development, engagement and wellbeing of our people, we know we will continue to exceed customer expectations and drive change for the future.

About the Opportunity:

The Events and Exhibitions Managerdrives event strategy, planning, organization, and execution to support the successful creation and/or attendance of events. This high-visibility role is responsible for ensuring OI Americas events presence acts as an extension ofthe broader marketing regional strategy supporting related marketing goals in terms of leads, ROI, and audience brand preference. The Events Manager is a seasoned professional in planning, managing, and optimizing tradeshow, conference, and regional workshop presence as key channel to support business growth.

This role is highly qualified in planning events, project management, results evaluations, and working with tradeshow agencies, trade and industry organizations, and exhibit centers. The events manager is highly collaborative, with strong strategic and leadership qualities, skilled at leading cross-functional teams across departments, business units, and geographies.

Additional Responsibilities:
  • Events Strategy -Lead all aspects of tradeshow presence and events management, including Kickoff meetings/goal setting, Project plans, KPIs/reporting, event analytics, messaging, design strategy, event promotions and Budget management, maintains the yearly events calendar for all OI Americas BUs
  • External Partner Management:Agency management (exhibit, AV, install, conference etc.),Liaison to the industry Association, Contracting including: sponsorships, exhibit space, ancillary event space, vendors & suppliers
  • Events LogisticsCoordinate all aspects of event booth planning including: Operational logistics, instrument plans/shipping, Staff support / housing, Internal communications, event amenities (food, giveaways etc.), Shipping coordination
  • Event Experience -Planning for a positive brand experience for each attendee. to effectively communicate OIA's relevant value propositions through the booth experience. Including: Booth layouts, Graphics & messaging, Instrument selection / presence
  • Event Attendee Engagement:Design the strategy to attract interest and interaction with event attendees including the ability to draw in event floor traffic. Coordinate planning and execution for In-booth talks, Booth staffing, use of Multimedia & content
  • Lead and Data Management:Own the process to capture attendee data including: lead capture / qualification, lead routing, attendee data uploads to CRM, Demo scheduling,
About the Candidate:
You are a highly driven, focused on driving results against business objectives, with strong operational and business acumen, and the ability to own the events ffinancial process including budget mgmt., invoicing, reconciliation & reporting, budget forecast planning. Our ideal candidate will have 10+ years of events and exhibition management experience and is highly skilled at project plan development, management, and high-quality execution.


Additional Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree

  • Ability to travel approximately 50-75% to support events, tradeshows, conferences and regional workshops

  • Understanding of lead capture in the events environment and experience with data to CRM integration

  • Proven experience of ccoordination, management and oversite of exhibition booth services

  • Works well in high pressure, results-oriented, deadline intensive environments

  • Strong collaboration and interpersonal communications skills - Ability to bring teams of people together across departments functions and geographies; creating alignment and able to influence without direct authority

  • Highly organized with a strong affinity for detail.

  • No job too big or too small attitude

  • Proficiency at presenting in both small and group settings

  • Excellent communication skills in various formats (verbal, ppt, excel, etc.).

Oxford Instruments Perks and benefits:

  • Generous benefit packages - We offer our employees competitive health insurance options, including Medical, Dental, and Vision plans.

  • Our 401k program has options for saving both pre- and post-tax dollars for retirement.

  • Paid Time Off (PTO) Work-life balance is a key part of our company culture here at OI, and we know that our employees do their best work when they can take the time they need to rest and recharge. Employees start with 4 weeks of PTO which is accrued each pay period.

  • Holidays - We recognize 12 holidays this year

  • In addition to all the standard PTO options, OI proudly offers a generous and progressive paid family leave policy.

  • Professional Development - OI supports you and your professional development with $5,250 available in annual tuition reimbursement after 6 months of service.

Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the US. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment Visa at this time for this position.

Oxford Instruments Company is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. EOE/M/F/D/V

This employer participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. If E-Verify cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, this employer is required to give you written instructions and an opportunity to contact Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or Social Security Administration (SSA) so you can begin to resolve the issue before the employer can take any action against you, including terminating your employment. Employers can only use E-Verify once you have accepted a job offer and completed the I-9 Form.

Note to recruitment agencies: Oxford Instruments does not accept agency CV's. Please do not forward details to our jobs alias, Oxford Instruments employees or any other company location. Oxford Instruments is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited CV's

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Job Summary
Start Date
As soon as possible
Employment Term and Type
Regular, Full Time
Required Education
Bachelor's Degree
Required Experience
10+ years
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