Events & Travel Lead

Yamaha employees are committed to helping everyone progress, express and connect through music and sound. We offer innovative, finely crafted and award-winning products for the entire journey. Yamaha promises to help people progress, express, and connect through music and sound.

Purpose of Role
Enable the ability to leverage trade and customer-facing events as a sales, marketing and branding tool.

Key Accountabilities Include
• Ensure managed events achieve brand and business objectives
• Events executed within approved budget
• Easy and efficient travel services are provided to YCA employees & customers

Primary Responsibilities Include
• Lead select tier 1, 2 and 3 tradeshow and customer-facing events
• Report on performance provide actionable insights
• Manage vendor relationships
• Adapt category strategies into event strategic plans
• Provide corporate travel services

Core Functional Competencies
• Customer Experience: Define desired customer experience to achieve satisfaction and loyalty throughout the customer journey
• Customer Insights: Ability to understand and interpret customer data, behaviors, and feedback into conclusions that can be used to make marketing decisions
• Design: Create visual content to effectively share product and brand attributes with target audience
• Event Management: Manage face-to-face and virtual events that enable contact between Yamaha and potential customers
• Project Management: Plan, organize, and manage tasks and resources to bring about successful completion of a specific project
• Project Procurement Management: Acquire products, services, or results from an external source; include contract management and control processes necessary to administer contracts, properly manage the buyer/vendor relationships, and manage the project’s obligations to the vendor
• Project Scope Management: Ensure all project work is included, while maintaining appropriate limit and control of the scope

Core Behavioral Competencies
• Yamaha Way (Will, Integrity, Initiative, Challenge, Commitment)
• Customer Focus
• Decision Quality
• Plans and Aligns
• Collaborates
• Self-Development
• Situational Adaptability

Qualifications
Ideal
• Demonstrated success at leading event planning
• Project management experience
• Travel as required up to 30%
• Budget management

Here’s What We’ll Bring

• Comprehensive benefits package including Medical, Vision, Dental, LTD, Life-Insurance and 401k with match AND automatic contributions
• Performance based bonus program
• Robust employee wellness programs including free music lessons
• Generous Wellness reimbursement program
• Tobacco cessation reward program
• Private concerts from award winning artists
• Discounted hotel, travel, entertainment, and other attractions
• Employee product purchase program
• Flexible work schedule
• Vacation, sick-time and personal floating holidays
• Monthly events, for example -- Bring Your Dog to Work Day, Employee Singing Competitions, Spirit Week and other fun events
• Inclusive and passionate culture
• We foster a culture in which everyone feels welcomed, included, and valued; and recognize that diversity contributes to the success of Yamaha

Compensation

• The hiring range for this position is $88,000 - $109,000 annually + bonus. This is the hiring range and does not include the value of benefits. The hiring range does not reflect total earning potential over time.
• Final offers within the posted compensation range are based on qualifications, skills and experience required for the role.