Event Planning Lead

4 weeks ago


Auckland City, New Zealand Auckland Transport Full time

A fantastic opportunity for an influential people leader with a strong background in events.
- Full time permanent opportunity with excellent career development opportunities.
- Flexible hours and working from home arrangements are available.

Auckland Transport is committed to ensuring we have a world class public transport system and an effective roading network. We know our people make the difference in achieving our goals. We are now seeking an Event Planning Lead to join our team as part of the Auckland Transport Operations Centre (ATOC). This is an exciting and dynamic work environment, with a focus on excellence, innovation, and continual improvement. The key purpose of this role is to lead a high performing team in the planning and delivery of transport solutions for a diverse range of events. The Event Planning Lead will drive ATOC's response to events, building strong and effective stakeholder relationships with key partners.

**Key Responsibilities**:
As the Event Planning Lead, you will inspire, develop, and manage a dynamic team of event planners. You will be responsible for developing strong and effective stakeholder relationships with our key event partners. You will contribute to the strategic vision of event planning and drive innovative process based on best practice domestically and internationally along with overseeing the planning and delivery of the major transport operations. In addition, you will lead the commercial arm of ATOC's event transport offering exploring future opportunities for growth.

**Ko koe tēnei | About you**
- exceptional and proven people leadership abilities
- the ability to build strong strategic relationships.
- senior-level stakeholder engagement experience

experience overseeing large-scale and complex operations, preferably with exposure to transport planning

**Ko wai mātou | About us & Nōu te rourou - What's in it for you?**

ATOC embraces inclusion and belonging and a commitment to building a diverse workplace. To support this, our hybrid working initiative empowers people to work flexibly. This could include flexibility around hours or remote working. We believe in looking after the health, financial and individual wellbeing of our employees and consistently strive to make Auckland Transport a great place to work. We offer a diverse range of benefits to all of our permanent employees, which you can read more about here.

**Benefits include**:

- A focus on high performance and continual professional development with exposure to training and career development opportunities.
- Parental leave on full salary up to 26 weeks (primary carer or partner) while also accruing annual leave and KiwiSaver contributions.
- Professional memberships and paid study leave of up to 10 days.
- Health and wellbeing benefits including free access to counselling services.
- A range of employee discounts at technology retailers.

If you would like to be part of our supportive and dynamic team and grow your career, then we would love to hear from you



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