Sponsorship Liaison Event Producer bei George P. Johnson Experience Marketing

Our Opportunity

GPJ is hiring a Sponsorship Liaison Event Producer to join our growing team.

This role is hybrid, requiring you to report on-site to one of the following office locations a minimum of 2 days/week: Boston, MA or New York, NY.

Your Role 

The Sponsorship Liaison Event Producer is responsible for facilitating seamless communication and collaboration between GPJ and a partner agency managing sponsors. This role requires relationship-building skills, strategic thinking, and meticulous attention to detail:

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the primary point of contact between our agency and partner agencies managing sponsors, fostering strong relationships and ensuring alignment on objectives, deliverables, and timelines.
• Facilitate regular communication and coordination meetings between internal teams and partner agencies to discuss sponsorship requirements, and expectations.
• Oversee the implementation of sponsored booths and deliverables, coordinating with internal and external stakeholders to ensure seamless integration and execution.
• Manage a multi million dollar budget from creation to reconciliation.

Your Skills:

• Proven experience in event production, sponsorship management, or related roles, with a strong understanding of the event industry AND sponsorship landscape.
• Strong project management abilities, including the capacity to prioritize tasks, manage multiple deliverables simultaneously, and meet deadlines under pressure.
• Strategic thinking and problem-solving skills, with a focus on driving results and delivering exceptional value to sponsors and stakeholders.
• Detail-oriented mindset, with a commitment to accuracy and thoroughness in all aspects of sponsorship coordination and execution.
• Proficiency in Google Suite
• Manage end-to-end logistics for sponsor turnkey installations, overseeing setup and dismantle and align to production schedule.
• Oversees turnkey graphics status in Graphic Management Tool.
• Collaborate with vendors, contractors, and internal teams to meet deadlines and deliver exceptional results for sponsors.
• Monitor Marketing and Promotional Opportunities (MPOs), ensuring fulfillment of commitments and maximizing sponsor visibility throughout the event.
• Act as a point of contact for Sponsor Team addressing and resolving client escalations promptly and professionally.
• Proven experience in event logistics, sponsor management and expo logistics
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to liaise effectively with sponsors, vendors, clients and internal stakeholders.
• Ability to thrive in a collaborative team environment and contribute to the overall success of Google Next.
• Experience managing $1M+ budgets with accuracy

Your Competencies

Relationship Builder: Develop, maintain and strengthen partnerships with others inside and outside the client organization. Identify new stakeholders, manage client expectations, define new business opportunities and deliver against clients’ needs while skillfully balancing the needs of the client and those of the agency. Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport,: builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.

Accountable: Be accountable. Demonstrate accountability. Hold yourself and others to a high standard of work, that includes following set processes, achieving deadlines and operating within control systems. Own both success and failures, without blaming others. Create a culture of accountability in your teams. Follow through on commitments by your actions. You set the example for your team.

Collaboration: Seek opportunities and take action to ensure effective collaboration with the GPJ internal teams, other Project agencies, clients and partners. If responsible for leading people or a team, model this behavior for team and expect same behavior from employees.

Solution Oriented: Even with tight project budget management practices, you focus on the desired outcome and are ready with multiple solutions in order to reach the end goal.

Your Experience

8+ years of relevant experience in event production AND sponsorship responsibilities

4 Year College Degree; preferred in Marketing/Advertising/Event Management/Business Administration, Hospitality, Communications, or related field

Your Impact

In your role, you will work closely with Account Management, Integrated Production, Creative, Strategy, Account Operations, Fabrication

Salary Range: $90k+

Salary is dependent on a variety of factors including (but not limited to) experience, skills, and location.

Who We Are

GPJ is the world leader in experiential marketing. Our 29 global offices are filled with fearless people dreaming up ideas that are transforming industries and bringing the most respected brands to life in powerfully, exciting ways. We are a part of the Project Worldwide family. An independent, employee-owned global network of complementary, wholly owned agencies. 

You read that “employee-owned” part, right? You heard us correctly. You work hard, she works hard, we all work hard… we all succeed and reap the rewards. We have an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) – providing our employees with an ownership interest. We thought you would want to know that. In fact, there is a lot more you would want to know about us, like our FTO policy (no more “accruing” time off), our employer matching 401(k) plan (no vesting period), our “no employee contribution” healthcare option. But we are getting ahead of ourselves here, let’s talk about this exciting opportunity first and we can fill you in on our perks & benefits later.

GPJ is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation and gender identity), national origin, citizenship, disability, protected veteran status, or any other protected class. In addition to federal law requirements, GPJ complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.  GPJ expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on any protected class.