Event Planner

About This Role

Planning and executing client, corporate, and employee events is the core of this role, which involves coordinating event details and ensuring a consistent attendee experience. This hybrid position is well-suited for a collaborative, detail-oriented professional who enjoys managing logistics, anticipating and solving problems, and learning from experienced event professionals.

Responsibilities

• Support event planning and execution, assisting senior event planners with client, corporate, and employee events, with a primary focus on the annual American Century Championship event
• Coordinate event details, tracking assignments, timelines, deliverables, approvals, and logistics to ensure work is completed accurately and on schedule
• Liaise with various departments across the organization, including other Marketing department colleagues, Sales, and IT
• Manage registration activities, supporting the creation and maintenance of registration websites, monitoring registrations, processing attendee changes, responding to routine attendee questions, maintaining confirmation records, and preparing registration reports
• Assist with guest communications, drafting, proofreading, formatting, and distributing invitations, confirmations, reminders, itineraries, event updates, and other attendee communications with guidance from senior event planners
• Coordinate hotel and transportation needs, assisting with rooming lists, reservation changes, arrival and departure information, transportation schedules, and related guest details
• Support vendor and venue coordination, helping collect proposals, organize vendor information, confirm services, track deadlines, maintain contact information, and communicate routine updates under the direction of a senior event planner
• Maintain event documentation, organizing event files and planning

Requirements

• Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without visa sponsorship, now or in the future

About the Company

American Century Investments is a leading global asset manager with over 65 years of experience. It specializes in global equities and fixed income, multi-asset strategies, ETFs, and private investments. Privately owned and independent, the company focuses solely on investment management and directs 40% of its dividends every year to the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, totaling over $2 billion since 2000.