Event Consultant

What Your Role Entails And How You'll Contribute

As an Event Consultant, you will develop, plan, and execute professional and memorable events and experiences for retailers, consumers, business partners, and employees to deliver business results, enhance the company’s reputation, advance business relationships, and drive employee engagement. This role is accountable for:

• Developing event plans and overseeing end-to-end event strategy and logistics (e.g. agenda management, registration sites, catering, transportation, hotel, post-event analysis and recaps, etc.) for external, business-to-business, and internal events.
• Creating end-to-end alignment between internal and external partners (e.g. business partners, communications leads, design teams, visual merchandising, external vendors) to ensure clarity on event goals and outcomes.
• Bringing forward new ideas, solutions and event trends.
• Negotiating event-specific contracts with vendors; oversee vendors during event planning and execution process.
• Delivering effective events and experiences on budget, on time, and on strategy.
  
  

To be effective in this role, you must have the ability to manage large, complex projects with multiple priorities and deadlines. You must also have strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills, as you will interact with employees and business partners at all roles and levels, including senior executives.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or at least 4 years of professional work experience
• Minimum five years of experience in event planning, event management, project management, or logistics.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree with a business or marketing emphasis
• Event management certification
• 2+ years of experience with online registration and event application development
• Strong technical event skills
• Prior experience organizing corporate events, including meetings with retail customers
• Exemplary communication skills (verbal, written, consulting) and organization skills
• Can manage multiple priorities and details
• Can command a fast paced environment with a high volume of change that requires real-time adjustment and problem solving
• Effectively works with diverse audiences
• Personal leadership skills: self-motivated, high degree of personal accountability, leads beyond their role, resilient and positive attitude
  
  

Additional Details

• This is a hybrid role based in our Kansas City, MO headquarters building. You will need to be available to be on site as needed for event planning and execution. Some travel to event locations outside of Kansas City will be required.
  
  

Now’s your chance to embrace a future with Hallmark—just follow the instructions below to apply.

You must show how you meet the basic qualifications in a resume or document you upload, or by completing the work experience and education application fields. Accepted file types are DOCX and PDF. 

In compliance with the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, Hallmark Cards, Inc. and its subsidiary companies will hire only individuals lawfully authorized to work in the United States. Hallmark does not generally provide sponsorship for employment.

Employment by Hallmark is contingent upon the signing of the Employment Agreement, signing of an agreement to arbitrate in connection with the Hallmark Dispute Resolution Program, completing Form I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification, passing the urinalysis drug screen, education verification and satisfactory reference and background checks.

Hallmark is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, pregnancy, national origin, physical or mental disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, or any other legally-protected status. Principals only please.

HALLMARK – Because Connecting With Each Other Has Never Been More Important

For more than a century, Hallmark has been bringing people together and improving the relationships that matter most. That’s why millions of people all over the world connect with the Hallmark brand. It has always been a mission so much bigger than any one of us who work here.

Today, we need empathetic learners, strategic thinkers, and enthusiastic visionaries with diverse experiences and skills to help us create the rest of Hallmark’s second century as we shift to a more digitally savvy, unified approach that combines the best of brick-and-mortar retail with the efficiency of dot-com spaces. Help us imagine what our next hundred years could look like!

When you join Hallmark, we will go out of our way to make you feel like part of the team. In the day-to-day, we’ll make the best use of the skills and talents you already have. We’ll also give you leadership opportunities and show you multiple potential pathways to future success.

Our culture of care for our consumers and for one another shows in the way we embrace different backgrounds, identities, and working styles, deliberately seeking out ways to be more inclusive both internally among our work groups and externally through the things we make and sell to our retail partners and consumers. We believe that a broadly inclusive, equitable approach is also our best path to future success. We’re seeking out those who can bring a fresh perspective to our business and would love your input as someone new to our team! We can only change and grow when we intentionally include new perspectives–like yours.