Event Planner

The Event Planner will be responsible for planning events for senior management, marketing, and sales. This role is ideal for an organized, proactive individual with strong communication, learning agility, and problem-solving skills who is interested in growing event planning, stakeholder management, and project coordination capabilities.

About the role

• Plans and executes events for senior management, marketing, and sales teams.
• Travels to worksite and other locations as necessary (25-30%).
• Identifies and recruits presenters, speakers, and event volunteers.
• Negotiates with vendors for event arrangements.
• Serves as the onsite host/hostess for clients.
• Communicates event status and conducts follow-up assessments.
• Develops and tracks meeting budgets.
• Seeks feedback after events and applies lessons learned.
• Buils effective working relationships with internal partners, vendors, presenters, volunteers, and attendees.
• Uses sound judgment to identify issues, escalate risks, and recommend practical solutions.

Responsibilities

• Travels to worksite and other locations as necessary (25-30%).
• Mets with customers to identify parameters of events.
• Recommends appropriate formats.
• Covers promotions of events to target audiences.
• Assists in the preparation of presentations (developing, writing, editing, and reviewing).
• Negotiates with vendors for event arrangements (hotels, travel agencies, special venues, restaurants, etc.).
• Serves as the onsite host/hostess for clients.
• Communicates event status.
• Conducts follow-up to assess effectiveness of events.
• Develops and tracks meeting budgets.
• Seeks feedback after events and applies lessons learned.
• Buils effective working relationships with internal partners, vendors, presenters, volunteers, and attendees.
• Uses sound judgment to identify issues, escalate risks, and recommend practical solutions.

Requirements

• BA/BS degree and minimum of 3 years of related experience.
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Demonstrated learning agility, curiosity, initiative, and willingness to learn new event planning tools, processes, business areas, and stakeholder expectations.
• Professionalism, customer-service orientation, and ability to support senior leaders, clients, and business partners.

Preferred Skills, Capabilities And Experiences

• Skills in event planning, stakeholder coordination, vendor management, budget tracking, and project coordination.

Benefits

At Elevance Health, we offer a range of market-competitive total rewards that include merit increases, paid holidays, Paid Time Off, and incentive bonus programs (unless covered by a collective bargaining agreement), medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability benefits, 401(k) +match, stock purchase plan, life insurance, wellness programs and financial education resources, to name a few.

Pay

Compensation is commensurate with experience.

Schedule

The Event Planner will be required to work at an Elevance Health location at least once per week, and potentially several times per week.

Qualifications

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws.

Who We Are

Elevance Health is a health company dedicated to improving lives and communities – and making healthcare simpler. We are a Fortune 25 company with a longstanding history in the healthcare industry, looking for leaders at all levels of the organization who are passionate about making an impact on our members and the communities we serve.

How We Work

At Elevance Health, we are creating a culture that is designed to advance our strategy but will also lead to personal and professional growth for our associates. Our values and behaviors are the root of our culture. They are how we achieve our strategy, power our business outcomes and drive our shared success - for our consumers, our associates, our communities and our business.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Elevance Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, citizenship status, color, creed, disability, ethnicity, genetic information, gender (including gender identity and gender expression), marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status or any other status or condition protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.