Event Marketing Manager

Career Area: Marketing and Public Relations

Occupation Group: Marketing Specialists

Salary

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A typical Event Marketing Manager earns the following wages (national and state):

State

The average salary in North Carolina for those pursuing this career is $59,409

National

The average salary in the United States for those pursuing this career is $64,951

What Does a Professional in this Career Do?

Manages the complete process of an event including planning stage, running the actual event itself and the post-event evaluation. Manages operational and administrative functions to ensure event is delivered efficiently. Ensures event is in line with company's overall marketing strategy and attracts target audience.

Employment Trends

The job demand and job growth statistics shown here were derived from job posts over the past year. Expected job growth projections are extrapolated from year-over-year job post listing history.

Job demand and job growth is expected at the following rates:

Skills

A professional in this position typically utilizes the following skills in the course of everyday work in this exciting and challenging field:

Baseline Skills

The following are baseline skills every Event Marketing Manager is expected to have in order to experience success in this field:

• Creativity: Mental characteristic that allows a person to think outside of the box, which results in innovative or different approaches to a particular task.
• Communication Skills: The ability to convey information to another effectively and efficiently.
• Planning: Working experience with the process of thinking about and organizing the activities required to achieve desired goals.
• Teamwork / Collaboration: Experience working in collaborative efforts with a team to achieve a common goal or to complete a task in the most effective and efficient way.
• Organizational Skills: Experience with a systematic process of structuring, integrating, co-ordinating task goals, and activities to resources in order to attain objectives.

Specialized Skills

These skills are specific to working in this career:

• Marketing: Marketing is the study and management of exchange relationships.
• Event Planning: Event management is the application of project management to the creation and development of large scale events such as festivals, conferences, ceremonies, formal parties, concerts, or conventions. The process of planning and coordinating the event is usually referred to as event planning and which can include budgeting, scheduling, site selection, acquiring necessary permits, coordinating transportation and parking, arranging for speakers or entertainers, arranging decor, event security, catering, coordinating with third party vendors, and emergency plans.
• Marketing Management: Marketing management is the organizational discipline which focuses on the practical application of marketing orientation, techniques and methods inside enterprises and organizations and on the management of a firm's marketing resources and activities.
• Budgeting: Experience planning how the financial resources of a business or department are to be allocated during the next business period.
• Social Media: Social media are computer-mediated technologies that facilitate the creation and sharing of information, ideas, career interests and other forms of expression via virtual communities and networks.

Distinguishing Skills

Any Event Marketing Manager that possesses the following skills will stand out against the competition:

• Strategic Marketing: Experience defining and performing marketing activities that are consistent with a company s plans and use of resources over time to achieve it's communicated objectives
• Corporate Marketing: Corporate marketing is the means by which a corporation or organization attracts potential customers.
• Content Marketing: Content marketing is a form of marketing focused on creating, publishing and distributing content for a targeted audience online.
• Marketing Operations: The marketing operations (MO) function has emerged due to the need for a more transparent, efficient, and accountable view of marketing.
• Direct Mail: Direct mail is a form ofdirectmarketingin which businesses send letters, postcards or other promotional materials to past, current or potential customers or clients. Direct mail campaigns may be targeted to either a consumer or business market (or both). In many cases, the mailing is directed to a target demographic or geographic market. In most cases, it's mass or bulk mailing, but you can send direct mail in smaller quantities as well.

Salary Boosting Skills

A professional who wishes to excel in this career path may consider developing the following highly valued skills:

• Channel Development: Working experience increasing sales through particular distribution channels.
• Sales Leadership: Working experience with the strategies designed to lead teams into increasing an organization's sales department.
• Global Marketing: Global marketing is marketing on a worldwide scale reconciling or taking commercial advantage of global operational differences, similarities and opportunities in order to meet global objectives.

Experience

This position typically requires the following level of experience. The numbers presented in the pie charts below were derived from actual job posts over the past year. Not all job postings list experience requirements.

Common Job Titles

It is possible to find work in this field in positions commonly listed as the following job titles:

• Marketing Manager
• Event Marketing Manager
• Marketing Event Manager
• District Event Marketing Manager
• Channel Marketing Manager

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