Events Specialist
Toronto
Marketing /
Full Time Permanent /
Hybrid
At LumiQ, we’re on a mission to make professional education enjoyable. As a modern, audio-first learning platform, we empower accounting and finance professionals to fulfill their continuing professional development requirements through engaging podcasts. Over the past five years, we’ve cultivated a devoted customer base of over 1,000 corporate and accounting firms across North America.
LumiQ is proud to be a 2024 Deloitte Fast 50 winner. We’re creating awesome proprietary content, nailing our go-to-market strategy, and being the first to shake up the industry. Most recently, we secured a strategic investment from Vertu Capital to fuel our expansion globally and continue executing on our exponential growth plans.
LumiQ is also a certified Great Place to Work! We’re all about transparency, ownership, innovation, and empathy. If you’re ready to make a real impact and help us transform professional education, we’d love to hear from you!
Reporting to our Director of Marketing, the Events Specialist will be responsible for driving
revenue and developing client relationships through planning and executing on sponsored
conference attendance and LumiQ hosted events.
What you’ll be responsible for:
- Planning and organizing sponsored conference attendance and hosted events. This can include everything from securing contracts to following up with sales reps post conference for feedback
- Researching and evaluating conferences that align with our target market
- Shipping conference materials, swag and gifts: ordering and managing packing materials, creating shipping labels, and working with shipping companies/couriers to ensure timely delivery
- Collaborating with marketing team members to create collateral and booth materials for print, organizing speaking engagements, and supporting event-related marketing campaigns
- Ordering and managing swag for conferences, events, and for the internal team.
- Working with the Revenue Operations team to manage conference attendees and reporting. Developing and maintaining relationships with conference organizers, partners, and vendors
- Other marketing duties as assigned
Who You Are:
- Have 1-2 years of experience managing and executing on events. This is a perfect role for someone who has contributed to an event’s team before, and wants to take the next step in their career and take more ownership of the function.
- Exceptionally organized and excel in project management: you manage your time well, meet deadlines, plan ahead, successfully work with project stakeholders, can work under tight timelines, and manage multiple deadlines simultaneously
- Excellent communication skills: you frequently provide updates on projects, proactively communicate challenges, ensure priorities are aligned, and can build rapport with team members and vendors
- Proactive problem solver: you can predict problems that may arise and suggest solutions
- Great attention to detail: you’ve thought of all the small details in executing an event and ensure the conference materials you ship are error-free.
- You know your way around budgeting and reporting, with a drive to see ROI on all of your events
- Adaptable and flexible in a startup environment, you’re also curious to learn more about B2B marketing
- Bonus if you have experience managing B2B conference sponsorships
If you think your experience is most of the way there we’d still love to meet you!
Please note this is a flexible hybrid role based out of Toronto, Canada. Employees will be expected to be able to commute to the office once a week for mandatory team training and company-based activities. However, for training & onboarding purposes, the in-office expectation time will increase.
Benefits and Perks:
-Health Benefits are available after 3 months with us, including a yearly health spending account. You'll also have access to an Employee Assistance Program for additional support if needed.
-Hybrid Work Style: The best of both worlds. Enjoy remote work and a downtown Toronto office with snacks, events, and ping pong.
-Monthly team social events: (Super Smash Bro party, hot chocolate bar, Blue Jays game, Hot One's Challenge are just a few examples of what we have done in the past).
-Schedule flexibility: We know our employees have lives outside of work and don’t mind if you need to run to a mid-day doctor's appointment or pick up a kid early from school!
-Nomad policy: Work remotely 4 weeks of the year from anywhere in the world.
-Endless Learning: Our platform isn't just for accountants. Listen to podcasts on soft skills, career development, leadership, and more.
-LumiQ Clubs: Join an existing club or start your own!
