Event Marketing Assistant

Role: Event Marketing Assistant (Contract)

Duration: 6 months+ (Contract) / Full Time 40hrs/wk.

About the Role

Ariat Marketing is looking for an Event Marketing Assistant to work on the Partnership Marketing Team. This individual will work cross functionally with the Marketing Team and Sales Teams to coordinate and execute trade show and event needs. This role requires strong organizational skills and interpersonal skills with attention to detail. This individual will periodically attend domestic events and trade shows as needed. Experience in apparel and/or footwear marketing is a plus.

You’ll Make a Difference By

• Work directly with the Associate Marketing Manager to coordinate logistics and deliverables for events, trade shows and sales meetings. Logistics can include but are not limited to booking booth and/or meeting space, registering staff for badges, managing housing, booking booth orders, packing and sending exhibition material from the warehouse and returning exhibition materials to the warehouse, managing trade show inventory, securing utilities for booth/meeting space and administrative work
• Work with outside vendors, (exhibit house, printers, etc.) to ensure timely, cost-effective execution
• Assist in the creation and sending out pre-show and post-show communications, booth signage/POP, promotional materials, and full execution of promotions.
• Develop staffing, pre/post show meetings with sales/product managers and marketing internal teams
• Travel and support onsite execution and management of key events, including show set-up and take-down
• Track expenses and assist in complete financial reconciliation
• Assist with show schedules, the trade show calendar, meeting agenda and distribute to team
• Manage trade show, event and partnership inventory
• Help construct recaps of trade shows and events to distribute to team

About You

• 2 years working as a Trade Show/Event Coordinator or Marketing Coordinator
• Ability to multi-task and juggle multiple projects/events while maintaining strong focus on execution and results
• Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills with an ability to communicate at all levels of an organization both internally and externally
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including presentation skills
• Strong organizational and planning skills
• Detail-oriented with excellent follow-up, budgeting, and time management skills
• Must be proficient in Microsoft Office suite of products (including strong knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint)
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 45lbs
• Onsite duties may require bending, walking, or standing for an extended period of time
• Ability to come up with timely solutions
• Willing to travel domestically to organize events as needed, including travel on some evenings and weekends (15% travel)

About Ariat

Ariat is an innovative, outdoor global brand with roots in equestrian performance. We develop high-quality footwear and apparel for people who ride, work, and play outdoors, and care about performance, quality, comfort, and style.

The hourly range for this position is $20.00 - $25.00 per hour.

The salary is determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data for geographic locations. Ariat in good faith believes that this posted compensation range is accurate for this role at this location at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future.

This contract position may be eligible for select benefits through the payrolling agency. Benefits may include medical, dental, and vision insurance options and 401k.

Please note that Ariat does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of a signed Agreement, Ariat will not consider or agree to payment of any referral compensation or recruiter/agency placement fee. In the event a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without a previously signed Agreement, Ariat explicitly reserves the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted directly to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Ariat.