Are you a seasoned Tour Manager looking for your next great adventure? Does supporting and advocating for your community energize and excited you? Montage Marketing Group wants you!
Montage Marketing is looking for a seasoned Tour Manager to join our growing team. Qualified candidates will have the skills, experience, and attention to detail needed to contribute to and support a nationwide tour focused on health advocacy for underrepresented populations in biomedical research.
This is a full-time, exempt position working a nationwide tour from April - October 2024. Anticipated placement for this position will be with the east coast tour. Placement may change based on client and agency need.
We are actively recruiting candidates residing in one of the following states: Arizona, DC, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, West Virginia, or Virginia.
Anticipated annual salary for this role is $84,500 - $89,500 benefits. Annual salary is prorated based on the length of the contracted tour. Government standard per diem rate for meals and lodging available depending on market during travel.
About Montage Marketing Group
Montage Marketing Group is an award-winning marketing firm focused on making connections-and making a difference. Our people are innovators and co-creators, visionaries and hard-working change makers. Our purpose is to make a connection with people, to get them to stop and think, to feel and act. Proven experts in engagement, outreach, communication, event planning, and experiential design, we're a third party-certified woman, minority, and diversity business enterprise, and a member of the US Small Business Administration's 8(a) program.
About the Role
The Tour Manager will be responsible for the successful management and execution of events and providing top tier attendee experiences. The ideal candidate will have experience in community, health, and diversity or health-related clients. The Tour Manager supports the management of staff and ensures events meet or exceed key performance indicators as set by the client.
Requirements

• A minimum of five to seven (5-7) years of experiential marketing program activation.
• Bilingual in English and Spanish preferred.
• Experience with multi-month national tours, six (6) months or longer.
• Experience driving tour vehicles and managing compliant DOT records.
  • CDL A License required.
  • Medical card required.
  • A minimum of 3 years of driving experience preferred.
  • Experience driving vehicles at least 30 ft in length.
• Ability to lift 50 lbs. or more.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Knowledge and expertise in implementing mobile vehicle marketing programs.
• Experience with health, multicultural, education, and/or community projects.
• Aptitude to effectively problem solve, develop creative solutions, and work under pressure.
• Keen attention to detail and driven attitude.
• Ability to work non-traditional hours including weekends/holidays.
• Collaborative attitude and willingness to assist as needed.
• Comfortable working in non-traditional and diverse settings.
• Excellent communications skills, ability to communicate orally and in writing with ease with various audiences and stakeholders.
• Proficiency in maintaining and utilizing management-related documents and systems, including, but not limited to, event recaps, incident reports, personnel reports, expense submission platforms.
• Experience traveling for assigned project, driving and riding in a vehicle with other tour personnel.
• Strategic thinking and judgment to make decisions.
• Passion for engagement, event marketing, and diversity.
• Excellent organizational and communications skills with the ability to multi-task
• Proven ability to identify strategic opportunities through creative thinking and innovative solutions.
• Familiarity with RV vehicles.
• Focus on results, quality, and attention to detail.
• Comfortable cross-training to support other tour teams as needed.

Responsibilities
Resource Management

• Staff management.
• Assist with asset management and set-up/tear-down of footprint.
• Drive company-owned vehicle and follow DOT log compliance and company policy.
• Inventory management of program assets.
• Ensure proper storage, maintenance, and transport of experience assets.

Event Execution

• Serve as the main point of contact, face of the brand.
• Manage the event execution and the attendee experience.
• Identify opportunities to improve event execution.
• Meet and/or exceed key performance indicators.
• Coordinate travel logistics with co-tour team and project team.
• Coordinate onsite logistics, troubleshoot with host venue/event, vendor partners, and co-tour managers, and make appropriate adjustments as need to execute activations.
• Communicate complex program messaging to specific targeted populations.
• Build relationship on behalf of client and agency with partners, vendor, and key stakeholders.

Tracking and Reporting

• Monitor, track, and drive ROI for the program.
• Track key performance metrics and insights, and complete event reports.
• Capture images and video content for social platforms.
• Track expense and submit expense reports per company guidelines.
• Craft and submit incident or special event related reports as needed.

Project Management Support

• Participate in program trainings.
• Communicate, report, and collaborate with Field Manager.
• Participate in project meeting with the project management team.

Why Montage?
Because we're a diverse team of collaborative creatives-people who care as deeply about each other as we do about our work. We know that true teamwork happens only when each person's voice is valued, each one's contribution is celebrated, and success is always shared. We encourage each team member to realize their full potential. And we invite people to make our agency their pathway to fulfillment.
How to Apply
At Montage, we're passionate about putting our talents, knowledge, interests, and experience to work every day. We produce strong work because we put connection first. We want someone who also values connection, respect, and collaboration. Someone who understands a thriving work environment is built on more than any one production. Sound like you? Apply today.
Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, disability or protected veteran status. Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States. Montage Marketing Group is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time. Montage Marketing Group is an E-Verify company.