About This Role
This role involves the end-to-end management of events within a portfolio, ensuring high standards of quality and service for internal and external clients. The Event Manager will work closely with business divisions to develop event strategies and identify requirements, focusing on the company's multi-brand strategy and sustainability agenda.
Responsibilities
- Accountable for the end-to-end management of all events in your portfolio
- Ensure consistent high standards are maintained in terms of quality and service to internal and external clients
- Develop close working relationships with business divisions, communication and marketing representatives
- Work with business units to discuss strategies, identify priorities and determine their event requirements
- Consistently re-evaluate working practices for efficiency and innovation
- Seek out and implement new practices where required
Requirements
- Proven corporate events experience, ideally within financial services or a large corporate environment
- Track record delivering large-scale, multi-day conferences
- Managing event budgets exceeding $1M
- Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills
- Ability to drive event strategies across multiple business units
- Creative and commercially minded, with the ability to turn ideas into high-impact event outcomes
- Highly organised and tech-savvy
- Strong communication skills
- Experience leveraging digital event platforms and technologies
- Advanced proficiency across Microsoft Office and modern event technologies, including digital engagement platforms, webcasting, streaming, webinars, social media and event management systems such as Aventri
Benefits
- Special offers on banking products and discounts from top brands, including generous employee-only mortgage rates
- Flexible work arrangements to help you achieve a greater work/life balance
- Variety of leave options including Culture, Lifestyle and Wellbeing leave
- Tailored learning and development opportunities to help your grow your career within the bank
- Lots of opportunities to 'give back' to the Community by getting involved in our many volunteering initiatives
Important Details
- Contract: 12-month opportunity
- Schedule: Flexibility required for regular and ad hoc travel, including weekends and evenings
About the Company
Westpac is committed to becoming its customers' number one banking partner for life.
