Manager: Events

**Job Overview**:
**Date Posted**: Posted 1 day ago-
**Location**: Pretoria, Gauteng-
**Job Title**: Manager: Events & Sponsorship-
**Education Level**: Diploma-
**Job Level**: Management-
**Minimum Experience**: 5- 7 Years**Manager: Events & Sponsorship required in Pretoria.**:
Main Purpose of the Job:
To manage the end-to-end marketing and communications events process to ensure effective
and quality delivery of of events in which the Bank Insurance are involved as hosts or participants
to achieve the strategic objectives of such events.

To manage all sponsorships provided by the Bank to external parties for the effective delivery of
the objectives of such sponsorships, and adhering to the prescribed governance and policies
pertaining to these sponsorships.

**Qualifications and Experience**:

- Diploma in Marketing, Events management or hospitality related qualification
- 5 years’ experience in event operations and sponsorship management

**Critical Competencies**:

- Social media awareness
- Financial Accounting principles
- Eventing Policies / Framework and procedures
- Knowledge / Experience of Sponsorship Management and Event Planning
- Knowledge of Events and Sponsorship trends
- Knowledge of PFMA
- Occupational Health and safety legislation
- Budget management Principles
- Treasury Regulations related to sponsorships & events

**Duties and Responsibilities**:
1. Develops and implements an Integrated Tactical events and sponsorship plan that
supports the Bank and LBI’s business objectives:

- Translate events and sponsorship agreements into an integrated events and
sponsorship plan.
- Unpack the plan into detailed annual programme, and run each of the individual events
and sponsorship on project management principles.
- Ensure that the critical resources and support required for the events and sponsorships
are provided.
- Work closely with internal teams to plan events and manage them and also serve as the
point of contact.
- Collaborate with the digital & web personnel on development & management of content
for the platforms Responsible for logístical arrangements of selected events such as the
annual Agricultural events and Bank sponsored seminars etc.

2. Stakeholder Communication and Relationship Management:

- Manage partner and sponsor relations to ensure all needs are attended to and to explore
improvements to sponsorship agreements.
- Management of new sponsorship contracts as well as sponsorship contract renewals.
- Develop a network of capable and trusted service providers who may be utilised for the
Bank’s events within the acceptable Supply Chain Management governance processes,
in order to ensure speed and quality of services.
- Responsible for logístical arrangements of selected events such as the annual
Agricultural events and Bank sponsored seminars etc.

3. Implements and maintains the framework, policies, and procedures to enable delivery
of the events and sponsorship plan within the appropriate governance standards:

- Uses diagnostics to understand inefficiencies and problem areas, and develop
appropriate action plans to resolve the problems.
- Organising events and functions in a professional manner to enhance the image of the
organisation.
- To conduct pre-event inspections to ensure suitability of venues.
- Promotion of safe working environment and positively contributing to the company HSE
KPIs and risk reduction strategies.
- Controls, manages and governs processes and systems within department to ensure
compliance and mitigating risk.
- Formulates appropriate methods to share business information with relevant
stakeholders.
- Maintains proper records of information collected to prepare reports ensuring that the
input documents are up to date and accurate.
- Administrative functions for the marketing events and sponsorship.

4. Budget management:

- Budget planning and management for events and sponsorship.
- SAP responsibilities (raising requisitions, creating service entries).
- Implements cost containing instructions from National Treasury.

5. Post Event Evaluation:

- To conduct post-event analysis / post mortems to establish whether anything should be
changed or improved in future.
- Track performance and report of all sponsorships (internal & external).