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Event Program Planner

Connection
medical insurance, paid time off, sick time, 401(k)
United States, New Hampshire, Merrimack
730 Milford Road (Show on map)
May 09, 2025
Event Program Planner
You understand your audience. You live and breathe strategy. And you’ve got the data to back up every one of your amazing ideas. Join a team where you’re empowered to bring the very best of the tech world to market—and to bring your biggest ideas to life.

Merrimack, NH


CONNECTION

At Connection, our purpose is simple: we connect people with technology. From hardware—PCs, printers, servers, and more—to cutting-edge cloud, cybersecurity, and professional IT services, we design, build, and support the IT solutions that thousands of companies, schools, and government agencies rely on every day. We like to think of ourselves as the IT Department for our customers’ IT Department. Our company started out almost 40 years ago with two employees and a phone line. Today we’re a Fortune 1000 IT solutions partner operating in 174 countries around the world—still driven by that startup mentality and guided by our original purpose.
https://www.connection.com/

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Full Time

$64,000.00/Yr. - $80,650.00/Yr.

Overview: What We Do:

We calm the confusion of IT by guiding the connection between people and technology. If a customer is looking for a better way to manage their warehouse inventory, equip their workforce, or secure their data, we make it happen. All it takes is finding the right combination of tech hardware, software, cloud solutions, and support services. That’s what we do. We’re the IT Department’s IT Department.

Who We Are:

Our team is made stronger by a multitude of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. It’s what makes Connection unique—what drives us to innovate and create technology solutions that stand apart from the crowd. We’d love for you to be a part of that fabric, to share your ideas and experiences with a team that thrives on fresh thinking, creativity, and helping others.

Why You Should Join Us:

You’ll find supportive teammates and a rewarding career at Connection—plus great benefits. We take pride in supporting employees with a total rewards package that provides financial, emotional, and physical resources for you and your family. Our compensation, 401k plans, medical insurance, and other benefits are progressive and competitive. We value the importance of our employees’ emotional well-being. To support employees, we provide free therapy visits, mental health coaching and tools, and meditation resources. You’ll also enjoy a generous paid time off package that includes not only vacation and sick time, but also Wellness and Volunteer Time Off days.

Reporting to the Manager, Marketing Events, the Event Program Planner manages the collaboration and communication with our product management team as it relates to Marketing Activities. Assisting in creation of sponsorship program development based on event strategy and presenting marketing event concepts to Sales and Partner Management to gain support and to gather feedback for optimizing program implementation. The Event Program Planner works with Partner Managers to detailing program participation opportunities and secure cooperative funding as well as works closely with Event Planners, leading efforts to ensure partner related assets are in place for events and assists with capturing partner claiming assets and post event KPIs. Supports Event/Tradeshows tasks as needed.

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Responsibilities:

  • Manages the creation of rate card development based on event strategy – value to partner.
  • Works closely with Manager, Marketing Operations and Product Management leadership on gaining alignment and approval for rate card and identifying target partners.
  • Works to present marketing event concepts to Sales and Product Management to gain support and gather feedback to optimize program implementation.
  • Works with Product Managers to present marketing program concepts to vendor partners as needed, detailing program participation opportunities and securing cooperative funding.
  • Creates and executes comprehensive communication plans, communicating with internal stakeholders, steering team and leaders, as needed, in a clear way to drive collaboration and efficiency.
  • Tracks sponsorship commitments.
  • Works closely with Event Planners; leads efforts to ensure partner related assets are in place for events.
  • Helps to request/proof/finalize event collateral assets within Workfront as related to sponsorships.
  • Supports Event/Tradeshows tasks as needed.
  • Assigns POP tasks to those attending events.
  • Assists with Recap forms/information to report on event KPIs.
  • Manages an overall event roadmap for Pre-Event and the execution of multiple project workstreams.
  • Performs all other duties or special projects as assigned.

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Requirements:

  • Skills and experience with face-to-face, virtual and hybrid event models.
  • Ability to work in a cross-functional environment to deliver results and collaborate comfortably with all levels across the organization.
  • Detail-oriented with very strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple responsibilities while maintaining high-quality standards.
  • Strong interpersonal, collaboration and communication skills with proven ability to build and maintain relationships and influence.
  • Proven program and project management skills and abilities, and follow through.
  • Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
  • Well versed in event planning and hospitality logistics.
  • Proficiency in Event Management Software to create online event registration, generate check-in roster, create targeted event emails, manage event budget and provide event reporting.
  • Strong organizational & project management skills with working knowledge of Workfront to create, assign and manage tasks with an ability to track and report progress to stakeholders and prioritize tasks as needed.
  • Demonstrates excellent process skills to flawlessly execute events.
  • Negotiation skills with ability to secure best purchasing agreement for customers and company.
  • Customer oriented with ability to listen to and anticipate needs of the customer.
  • Adaptable with ability to shift in a fast-paced environment.
  • Self-motivated with a positive attitude.
  • Creative with ability to problem solve.



Because of the possibility for fraudulent job postings on many popular job boards, please be advised that Connection will never offer a position of employment without a complete interview process and communication with a “live person.”

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