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Company Name: Booking
The Campus Workspace Community and Events Manager will be a part of the Workspace Services team. This team is responsible for all office related services and events of the new Booking.com Campus.
PLEASE NOTE FLUENT LEVELS OF BOTH ENGLISH AND DUTCH ARE REQUIRED.
The Campus Workspace Community & Events Manager will lead the delivery support for internal event projects - ensuring that agreed & planned deliverables are realized in line with the overarching project plan. This role is expected to act as a Venue manager and make sure all operational tasks are planned and executed in strong collaboration with all relevant stakeholders like for example, security, IT, and all external suppliers. The Workspace Community & Events Manager acts as the liaison between the business organization and its audience. Stakeholders will be internal like for example Public Affairs, Marketing, Sustainability, Internal Communications etc , as external (like local residents, other companies at the Oosterdok, partners and potential external parties). To be successful in this role the Community & Events Manager should be a confident voice in event project delivery both individually and part of a larger team. This role is comfortable working on complex, multi-stream projects and understands how to both efficiently deliver while retaining the very best stakeholder & collaborator experience. This role is actively using project delivery skills matched with data, insights, creative thinking & quality delivery - aligned with technical expertise across event management, event strategy, creative, production or operations.
B.Responsible
- Take the lead in defining key delivery priorities for a specific event program or set of programs, based on the technical expertise in which this role is aligned (event management, stakeholder management, creative, production, operations).
- Develop and maintain relationships with key stakeholders internally and externally.
- Lead the delivery of the highest quality experience from a brand, strategy & experience design perspective for your allocated tasks, working to ensure alignment with the overall sponsorship or event playbook.
- Create exceptional internal and external guest experiences across all aspects of the project this includes proactive management of communications and where needed ensuring project related inbound is dealt with efficiently.
- Actively deliver & support others to be proactive participants in the public plinth and the event team, ensuring progress is consistently up to date and support in solving escalated key issues where needed to maintain project delivery timelines.
- Fulfil the programming of the internal and the public spaces in the Campus.
- Be a key representative of the event team in engaging with talent, be on hand to support their needs both in preparations, onsite & post project completion, ensuring everything is in place for this talent to contribute to their fullest.
- Implement, access and adjust the Good Neighbour concept. To ensure consistency and coherence across partners and programming. Measure impact of different elements of the concept and adjust if needed, align with overall Booking.com strategy.
- Set the standards in creating the very safest event experiences by advocating and ensuring full compliance with the health, safety & security standards of the project aligned with your technical expertise.
B.Skilled
- 5+ years craft experience working the delivery of large event management and/or project delivery for global brands.
- 5+ years experience in partnering with event/experiential agencies & vendors to deliver large complex projects.
- 5+ years experience in working & creating event/experiential project delivery.
- Proven experience in project delivery for experiences & shows that exceed 2,000 attendees and/or multi-month project delivery schedules.
- Demonstrate experience working on a wide range of event projects specifically leading deliverables across pre-during-post project phases.
- Must have experience in working with or for large corporate enterprise organizations within the events discipline.
- Great network skills, should be able to build strong productive, professional relationships with partners and other interested parties - both internal and external.
- Extreme personal organization skills, with ability to work in a high pressure environment.
- Culturally savvy and keen to immerse in Booking.com’s culture and subcultures to understand the community and make the best impact.
- Deep experience in facing unpredictable challenges, solving these in a seamless way to the highest possible service standards.
- Fluent in Dutch and English written & spoken with exceptional communication and influencing skills.
Pre-Employment Screening:
If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable law, a pre-employment screening may include employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the position.
