Special Events Coordinator
Company Background:
Gilt Groupe provides invitation-only access to high-end fashion and luxury brands at highly discounted prices. The company currently works with a roster of nearly 400 up-and-coming and established brands in the women's, men's, children's, beauty, and home fashion categories.
Gilt Groupe was founded by an experienced team with proven track records at successful luxury fashion companies. Gilt Groupe is a fully funded company and is currently based in the vibrant Chelsea neighborhood in New York City.
Job Description:
The role of the Special Events Coordinator would be to assist the Special Events Manager in all logistical and budgetary planning for all Gilt Groupe events.
With the aggressive event goals for the remainder of 2009 and 2010, including a direction of hitting 25 markets in 6 months, the Special Events Coordinator will need to be able to handle a lot of responsibility, multi-task, be able to negotiate pricing to stay within budgets, and be professional and mature when dealing with vendors and event partners.
Responsibilities include:
• Administrative duties like overseeing and monitoring the events calendar, scoping out new vendors and venues, tracking contracts and invoices, tracking budgets, etc.
• Organizing, tracking and overseeing sponsorship, donation and alignment events that we don’t host ourselves
• Handling promotional item/branding item orders for events
• Overseeing RSVP system and guest list maintenance for all events
• Booking travel, transportation and accommodations for event trips
• Tracking regional city markets we hit/need to hit
• Writing post event recaps for Gilt Groupe blog
• Helping to secure event sponsors, including liquor, gift bag donors, etc.
If interested, please send your resume to [email protected]
