Advanced Specialist, Events

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🔥 18 hours ago

🏖️ New Jersey – Remote

🏖️ New Jersey – Remote

💵 $60k - $90k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🎪 Events

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Pearson VUE

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1994

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

Pearson VUE is a global leader in computer-based testing, providing a wide range of credentialing and certification exams for various industries. They support test-takers and test owners by offering resources, scheduling options, and accommodations to ensure equitable access to testing. Their mission is to empower candidates and enrich communities through the delivery of high-stakes exams that validate professional skills and knowledge, contributing to career advancement and industry standards.

📋 Description

• Own assigned event workstreams from planning through post-event follow-up • Manage timelines, budgets, vendors, venues, registration activities, attendee communications, materials and production requirements • Translate marketing, commercial, audience and brand objectives into event plans, milestones and success measures • Coordinate internal teams and external partners to maintain readiness and delivery excellence • Support successful event execution and a high-quality attendee experience • Manage sponsorship and association deliverables from planning through activation • Coordinate benefit fulfilment, partner communications and promotional commitments • Support speaking opportunities, executive engagements and customer-facing activities • Partner with Marketing, Sales, Product, Communications, Procurement and Finance teams • Coordinate vendors, agencies, sponsors and external partners throughout the event lifecycle • Identify risks, dependencies and execution challenges; recommend solutions and escalate significant risks • Maintain project plans, budgets, decision logs, sponsor trackers and event documentation • Capture event outcomes, engagement metrics, feedback and lessons learned • Analyse performance data and recommend improvements to future programmes • Pilot tools, technologies and ways of working that improve scalability, measurement and consistency • Provide guidance, coaching and support to junior colleagues • Share templates, tools and best practices across teams • Serve as a subject matter expert in event planning and delivery

🎯 Requirements

• Demonstrated experience independently managing complex business events, conferences, sponsorship programmes, customer events or association partnerships • Strong project management capability, including work planning, budget management, dependency tracking and stakeholder coordination • Experience managing multiple priorities simultaneously while maintaining quality and attention to detail • Proven success working with vendors, agencies, sponsors and external partners • Experience delivering successful event programmes from planning through post-event reporting • Strong organisational and project management skills • Excellent written and verbal communication capabilities • Ability to influence stakeholders and drive alignment without direct authority • Sound judgement, adaptability and problem-solving capability • Working knowledge of event technology, attendee communications, registration systems and event reporting • Understanding of how events support customer engagement, brand awareness, sales enablement and thought leadership objectives • Ability to analyse data and convert insights into practical recommendations • Commitment to inclusive, accessible and professionally executed event experiences • Experience using Cvent or comparable event management platforms (desirable) • Experience supporting conferences, sponsorships, exhibitions and association programmes (desirable) • Exposure to Higher Education, Education Technology, SaaS or B2B environments (desirable) • Familiarity with CRM systems, lead capture processes and event measurement frameworks (desirable)

🏖️ Benefits

• Annual incentive program • Benefits offered by Pearson (specific benefits are linked in the posting)