Manager, Conferences Sales

3 weeks ago


Surrey, Canada Gartner Full time

**Description**:
This role will be responsible for supporting the Global Conferences partnership with Research Sales and Services and Delivery teams at a regional level. You will execute Sales and Service delivery enablement campaigns and communications to ensure Conference opportunities are effectively utilized by Sales and Services and Delivery.

**Primary Responsibilities**:

- Build relationships with seniormost leaders and key partners across Sales and Service orgs to understand how Gartner Conferences can help drive engagement with clients and prospects
- Execute processes and plans to support timely and relevant sharing of information with sales and service associates as they are often the first point of contact for client/prospect questions regarding conference
- Create clear and direct understanding of conference timelines, goals and key details in order to own and drive best practices leading to attendance (building agendas, booking 1:1s, etc.)
- Partner with Sales & Service Operations & Comms teams to drive effective, consistent and impactful ways to support associate adoption of conference tools and best practices - including the creation of best practice playbooks for associates
- Identify and pilot the most effective communication forms for internal conference campaigns and information sharing
- Support tracking and execution of regional conference briefings, leader prep calls and any enablement cadences that arise (Power Hours, onsite experience briefings, etc.) including project management of deck builds
- Review and edit sales/services owned playbooks and other conference-aligned resources to ensure correct information/timelines/calls to action and ensure all conference-wide details are represented
- Create streamlined, scalable processes and tools to share with leaders when new initiatives are launched across conferences.
- Identify opportunities for process improvements, tool enhancements and develop innovative solutions that drive efficiency within Gartner Conferences and across Sales/Service teams.
- Key stakeholders include all teams in Global Conferences, GTS/GBS Sales & Sales Operations, Services and Delivery, Corporate Communications and Corporate Marketing. Primary external relationships are directly with conference attendees.

**Qualifications**:

- Bachelor’s degree
- 5-7 years business experience.
- Proficiency in executing cross-functional initiatives.
- Strong executive presence
- Strategic leader, with excellent implementation results.
- High sense of urgency, ability to work at a fast pace.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to build and leverage relationships
- Strong project management skills, including deadline management
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to communicate, collaborate & motivate.
- Exceptional problem-solving capability
- Client focused
- Fully competent in Microsoft office, especially Excel and PowerPoint
- Passionate, energetic & enthusiastic
- Solution oriented strategic thinker - self-motivated & collaborative
- Curious and inquisitive
- Event Planning experience not needed.
- Willingness to travel about 20% of the time.

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**Who are we?**

At Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT), we deliver actionable, objective insight that drives smarter decisions and stronger performance on an organization’s mission-critical priorities. We’ve grown exponentially since our founding in 1979 and we're proud to have over 19,500 associates globally that support over 15,000 client enterprises in more than 100 countries.

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