Corporate Training and Events Specialist

**About you**:
As a dedicated corporate training and events specialist, you’re passionate about using your stellar organizational and relationship-building skills to support the successful delivery of events.

You are a positive, solutions-oriented professional who is able to ensure all company training and events run without a hitch. Working with the Senior Vice President, XXX and Vice President of Sales, your prioritization and communication skills are top-notch, and you’re talented at multi-tasking under pressure, without feeling overwhelmed.

As first point of contact for the Senior Vice Present XXX and Vice President of Sales, you are highly collaborative, working effectively with a wide variety of stakeholders inside and outside of the organization with polish, professionalism, and a high level of confidentiality. You excel in a fast-paced environment with mínimal supervision.

Self-motivated and energetic, not much can bring you down

**Responsibilities**:

- Accountable for the overall success of all nationally planned advisor training, development, reward and recognition programs ensuring a professional, consistent and atypical experience
- Plan, organize and carry out all activities related to advisor-facing training and events, which range from virtual seminars to full day off site events, trips and rewards
- Coordinate all company training and events including webinars, meetings, conferences, speaking arrangements, seminars and trade shows
- Research and book all aspects of events, including but not limited to, travel, accommodations, facilities, catering, signage, displays, audio-visual equipment, gifts, special needs requirements, printing, and event security
- Attend all company events (virtual and in-person where local), monitoring scheduled activities to ensure that they proceed as expected and deal with any issues as they arise
- Conduct post-event evaluations, debriefs and report on outcomes to improve future events
- Prepare reports, agendas and presentations and maintain internal website calendar for all upcoming events and e-learning
- Partner with the finance team to ensure post-event reconciliation including verification of final carrier and third-party billings, and coordination of marketing budget and invoice processing
- Ownership of ad-hoc requests for gift selection and management, ensuring that they are delivered on time and to the right address with an appropriate note
- Assist with various miscellaneous assigned projects from time to time
- Other duties relevant to the position will be assigned as required

**Qualifications**:

- Post-secondary education
- 1-2 years of previous experience in corporate events
- Masterful at managing multiple priorities and changing priorities
- Strong communication skills; the ability to think ahead and proact vs only react
- Outcome-focused, not only delivering on a task
- Committed to building strong relationships internally and with key external stakeholders
- Very strong organizational skills
- Polished, professional and positive
- Exceptional attention to detail, ensuring a high level of accuracy
- Excellent follow-up skills

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: $50,000.00-$56,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company events
- Dental care
- Employee assistance program
- Extended health care
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Paid time off
- Work from home

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday

**Experience**:

- Event planning: 1 year (required)

**Language**:

- English (required)

Willingness to travel:

- 25% (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in North York, ON