Company Name: Blackstone
Location: New York, NY
Type: Full Time
Salary: $150,000 – $225,000
Job Description:
Blackstone is the world’s largest alternative asset manager. Blackstone seeks to deliver compelling returns for institutional and individual investors by strengthening the companies in which the firm invests. The role involves ensuring that all conferences and events, both internal and external, exemplify the highest levels of quality, cost efficiency, and control. This includes collaborating with business units and hosts as strategic partners, offering creative ideas and excellent execution. The position leverages global supplier relationships and Blackstone’s purchasing power to maintain brand consistency while upholding rigorous standards in project management, budgeting, and vendor service levels.
Responsibilities
- Event Planning: Support the event lifecycle for in-person and hybrid events, from initial request, through execution and post event reporting across all US business units.
- Strategic Partner: Manage multiple workstreams concurrently with consideration for prioritization, complexity, influence, and levels of involvement required to advance initiatives. Working with client team(s) to provide guidance on agenda building, material design and speaker suggestions (internal/external) and presentation idea generation.
- Innovative: Drive innovation within the team by fostering a willingness to experiment and balancing big-picture thinking with tactical execution. Collaborate on creating new event experiences and exploring industry sponsorship opportunities
- Financial Controls: Develop and maintain accurate budgets, negotiate cost savings, and reconcile actual expenses. Assist in preparing post-event analysis reports that incorporate both qualitative and quantitative data.
- Production and Technology: Collaborate with production and technology teams to enhance audience experience. Apply expertise in the production process and audio-visual requirements to influence event technology efforts aimed at engaging global audiences with hybrid programming.
- Vendor Management: Submit RFPs, recommend venue ideas and selection. Lead contract negotiation and manage vendor service levels to ensure quality and compliance.
- On-Site Execution: Support on-site execution, staffing, and vendor management, contributing to the overall success of events.
- Business Unit Relationship Manager: Oversee key relationships across Blackstone businesses, serving as a trusted partner – presenting annual event budgets, providing input on event strategies and gathering feedback.
Qualifications
Blackstone seeks to hire individuals who work well in a team-driven working group, are highly motivated, intelligent, have sound judgment and have demonstrated excellence in prior endeavors.
- Experience: 10+ years’ experience in event planning and management in a dynamic corporate organization.
- Strong knowledge of venues and vendors in New York and across the U.S.
- Proven track record of developing business relationships at all professional levels, both internal and external, ranging from C-suite executives and partners to personal assistants.
- Self-motivated problem solver.
- Professional integrity, initiative, leadership skills and can work as part of a global team in an environment that demands excellence and time.
- In depth and hands on experience in Cvent event management and registration platform.
- Strong organizational skills and can manage multiple responsibilities and events while maintaining high quality standards.
- Can adapt style as the situation requires.
- Willingness to travel as needed for events.
Blackstone is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, marital or partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, genetic predisposition, veteran or military status, status as a victim of domestic violence, a sex offense or stalking, or any other class or status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including but not limited to hiring, placement, promotion, termination, transfer, leave of absence, compensation, and training. All Blackstone employees, including but not limited to recruiting personnel and hiring managers, are required to abide by this policy.
