Sponsorships & Events Manager

6 months ago

Toronto, Canada iA Groupe financier iA Financial Group Full time

Why join the iA Events Team? Great teams don’t just happen. It takes work and effort to find the right combination. Our Events Teams hold 80+ successful events per year for our Advisors, Investors, Clients, Executives and Employees. We love what we do, and we’re committed to Excellence

As a Sponsorship & Event Manager, you will be responsible for collaborating and providing expertise (strategic, virtual, hybrid, tactical and experiential) to assist in annual goals to innovative in-person, virtual and hybrid event development and execution for our division of iA Wealth.

**Responsibilities include**
- Event Strategy: Ensure innovative and strategic approach to building and designing events, constantly evolving, and leveraging new tools in following guidelines, standards, practices & milestones
- Responsible for on-time completion of all steps along the timeline / work-back schedules
- Bring together key leads for event kick-off meeting driving each event through the proper process stages
- Manage $750K sponsorship programs
- Developing costs in-line with established expense ratios, managing expenses to budgets, reporting monthly on expense pacing, leading development of all timelines

**For example, you will have to**:

- Organize, plan and lead meetings (in advance) for entire project: production planning, rehearsal, pre-cons, and status.
- Create working event roles and accountabilities (collaboratively)
- Planning event aspects, such as site inspections, venue, seating, dining, guest list, invitations, etc.
- Document all processes & carry out e-filing
- Organize creative ideation brainstorm (vision of event, look and feels, elements required)
- Ongoing tracking of deliverables to proactively identify issues and solutions
- Identify in advance any flags or threats to the project keeping the Senior Manager, Events
- Prepare surveys and statistics for senior management to review
- Ensure event content duly meets the company’s compliance guidelines
- Prepare post-mortem meetings and invite stakeholders
- Review event checklists to ensure timing and event standards are being followed
- Keep event production leads informed and updated
- Act as primary liaison with suppliers and vendors for all event related acquisition of goods and services, as well as other departments within the iA Wealth Team
- Research and order iA promotional material and supplies
- Perform other tasks as required

**Qualifications and Experience**
- Sponsorship Management experience
- 5 - 7 years of event experience
- Conference, seminars, summits, awards, galas, and experience with events in investment industries a plus
- Bilingual in French and English is an asset
- Leadership & negotiation skills
- Strategic and innovative approach to event design
- Organized and detailed through planning and documentation
- Ability & flexibility to travel internationally is required
- Proficient in Microsoft Office & ability to learn multiple platforms
- Ability to lead and manage several projects simultaneously
- Highly developed analytical mind and strong ability for solving problems
- Comfortable and able to effectively facilitate discussions with internal and external stakeholders

You are known for your positivity and can-do attitude, your high level of adaptability and your sense of collaboration? You are passionate on delivering stellar experience to the event audience?

**Company Overview**:
**About**:
iA Financial Group is the strength of a company with a human side, with its over 8,000 employees. Together, we have earned the trust of our more than four million clients and 50,000 advisors who have chosen us for their insurance, savings, and wealth management.

With over $200 billion in assets and half a billion invested in technological innovation, we’re a key player in the financial services industry in Canada and the United States. The secret to our success? Investing in you, one person at a time. Because, for over 125 years, we have believed that it’s by supporting our employees and surrounding ourselves with the most reputable leaders in the industry, we will continue to innovate.

At iA, we’re invested in you.

**Our commitment to Diversity and Inclusion**:
At iA Financial Group, we support and celebrate diversity. We strive to provide a workplace that is recognized as inclusive for all, regardless of ethnic origin, nationality, language, religious beliefs, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, family situation, or physical or mental disability.

Please note that if you need help or assistance to make the recruitment process more accessible for you, please contact us here. Someone from our team will be happy to assist you.

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