Event Planner

SAMANTHA DESISTO

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An organized and detail-oriented event planner with extensive experience in planning and executing meetings and events. RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Meeting Planner

Unbridled Solutions, Waltham, MA July 2017 – Present

• Executed multiple programs per year of 20 – 1000 attendees in the pharmaceutical, food and beverage, and retail fields.

• Produced project timelines, production schedules and budgeting parameters for each meeting. Maintained annual budgets and updated client financial reporting and reconciliation.

• Traveled to and acted as main onsite contact for duration of meeting. Secured hotel arrangements, meeting space, catering and audiovisual needs. Supervised participant registration database and reports.

• Responsible for hiring, training, scheduling and supervising on site staff.

• Negotiated cost savings with contracted hotels and various vendors for event specific services. Selected, hired and managed third party vendors.

• Responsible for mentorship of new hires and staff development and training. Resource Manager June 2015 – October 2016

Signature Consultants, Woburn, MA

• Responsible for full lifecycle prospect identification, sourcing, qualifying, interviewing, contract negotiation, and continued consultant management through end of employment.

• Attend weekly client meetings to understand, support and increase existing client relationships and or foster new relationships.

• Communicating with upper management on a daily basis regarding leads, resources and clients.

• Responsible for national job postings including editing content, content creation, content management, compliance and publishing descriptions onto websites such as Monster, CareerBuilder, Facebook, Dice, Juju, Sologig, and internal website.

• Responsible for leading networking events, organizing user group attendance, and forums to expand company network, branding, and market intelligence.

• Creating and leading office ‘Lunch and Learns’ where educational sales tactics, and industry standards are merged to establish exceptional employee and office growth.

• Responsible for Mentoring Junior Associate Recruiters and coaching them through 3 month long training through becoming a full recruiter

EDUCATION

University of Massachusetts Amherst (May 2014)

Bachelor of Arts in Communications and Psychology

Oxford University, United Kingdom (Summer 2013)

Trinity College, Oxford England

SKILLS & TECHNOLOGIES

Relationship Management, Creative Strategy, Resource Management, Customer Experience, Training and Development, Database Management, Bullhorn, Cvent, Content Management, Microsoft Office; including Excel, Word and PowerPoint

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