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IT Meetings and Events – Technical Event Planner

Boston Consulting Group

BCG is a global consultancy with 35+ North America offices that partners with business leaders and society to solve industry-defining challenges.

WHAT YOU’LL DO
The METS Technical Event Planner will play a key role at the intersection between business & technology to successfully deliver virtual and hybrid meeting & event formats. In this role, you will develop a detailed understanding of meeting/event owner objectives for their specific meeting and event, and consult on available technologies to best support the outcomes required. You’ll understand e2e technology offerings in depth and apply your expertise to work across platform design, setup and customization, session and experience design and overall flow of the meeting to deliver a top-notch participant experience bringing the BCG brand to life.

The Meetings &Events Technical Services (METS) team is the technical partner to support any internal and external BCG-hosted meetings and events. METS is an established team of global technical professionals with a wide network of AV, meetings services (network, print etc.) and virtual meetings solutions. With the recent shift to virtually hosted meetings, the future will hold a mix of virtual and in-person elements to connect participants and speakers most effectively.

YOU’RE GOOD AT
The METS Technical Event Planner will be a leading expert and trusted consultant to translate meeting & business objectives into a high-quality technical design and setup of virtual platforms and digital tools:
Build trusted relationships across IT and multiple business functions, partnering effectively with diverse internal stakeholders and senior meeting and event owners
Take a consultative approach to understand meetings and events objectives, apply complex technology solutions and concepts and translate into solution options presented to meeting owners to shape demands towards best-in-class technical designs
Assembling & coordinating a technical delivery team based on specific meeting and events needs (ranging for technical platform build/implementation, in-meeting technical hosting & AV support, day-of-event support structures)
Work in a fast-paced, highly flexible and demanding environment, while maintaining focus to an on-time and high-quality delivery for platforms, solutions and live meeting support
Driving the establishment and continuous improvement of internal best-practices and work-processes within your team and across associated IT- and functional teams

YOU BRING (EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS)
The METS Technical Event Planner is part of an established team of meeting & event professionals and a best-in-class global IT organization:
A proven track record of meetings & events planning and management, especially recent experience with virtual and hybrid meeting settings and supporting platforms around registration, mobile applications and virtual event platforms (e.g. Cvent, Intrado, 6Connex)
Strong understanding of the latest market landscape of virtual meeting solutions and passion to develop an in-depth knowledge on virtual event platforms and how to maximize their effectiveness in virtual and hybrid settings
Strong project management capabilities and experience or product ownership capabilities, working closely with internal or external IT and non-IT stakeholders
* Passion to work in close partnership with non-IT stakeholders, translating complex IT technology concepts into non-technical language and into real-life business application

YOU’LL WORK WITH
BCG’s information technology group collaboratively delivers the latest digital technologies that enable our consultants to lead and our business to grow. For our IT jobs, we seek individuals with expertise in the areas of IT infrastructure, application development, business systems, collaborative and social technologies, information security, and project leadership.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Candidates should be aware that BCG currently maintains a policy requiring all US & Canada based employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Newly hired employees must be fully vaccinated prior to their employment start date. BCG is an equal opportunity employer and will provide a reasonable accommodation to those unable to be vaccinated for medical or religious reasons where it is not an undue hardship to the company to do so as provided under applicable federal, state, provincial and local law.

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Boston Consulting Group

BCG is a global consultancy with 35+ North America offices that partners with business leaders and society to solve industry-defining challenges.

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