Cartier Event Planner (1year contract)

Job description

Richemont, one of the world leaders in the luxury sector, has various Houses specializing in jewelry, watches and high-end accessories. Each Maison proudly embodies a tradition of style, quality and craftsmanship and Richemont strives to preserve the heritage and identity specific to each of them. At the same time, we are committed to innovating and designing new products in line with the values ​​of our Houses, through a process of permanent creativity.

★Japanese (native level) and English (business level) skills are a must.★

MAIN PURPOSE

Main Purpose of the role is to plan and implement overall events, sales promotions in line with company strategy as well as to provide brand experiences to Press, clients and general consumers and set targets.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Key Responsibilities 1: Events / Sales Promotion events Planning

• Create an event brief and define event objectives and target audience based on the company strategy and annual business plan
• Develop event contents remaining current or ahead of the curve with trends in event planning, design and production and proactively identify and solve operational challenges
• Explore new venues to implement appropriate events for press, clients and general consumers inside or outside of boutique
• Execute events to increase affinity with Cartier and deepen the engagement between target audience
• Organize the logistics/mechanics for events effectively
• Comply with legal, insurance, health and safety regulations at all times

Key Responsibilities 2 Events / Sales Promotion events Execution 

• Execute events, sales promotion seamlessly in a consistent manner with key message of each event delivered to targets
• Ensure excellence in execution to keep the Maison Standard in every single event

• Troubleshoot any issues that arise on event day

Key Responsibilities 3: Client Experiences at events

• Build an understanding of our clients and oversee client experiences from conception
• Offer a unique experience to create a specific link between the target audience and the Maison through event activities

Key responsibility 4: budget management

• To be responsible for the budgets in compliance with quality and deadline and develop the budget allocation

Key Responsibilities 5: Cross-functional collaboration and external vendor control

• Identify external vendors/partners and manage & negotiate to deliver the best quality of execution as Cartier standard at events
• Collaborate with other departments & HQ to develop a consistent event concept in line with Maison’s strategy

REQUIREMENT

• Project Management

• Capable of creating clear and articulate roadmaps for a department project with clear understanding of the essential team to achieve the objectives
• Can take responsibility and lead small to middle size of projects/events when required
• Able to engage as a project leads to sculpt a clear and insightful brief

• Problem Solving

• Define and solve the problems

• Understands the local strategic direction and how it contributes to the global direction
• Ability to handle pressure
• Interpersonal and communication skills, written & oral, in Japanese and English

Required experience:

• Proven success in event management
• Project coordination / management experience

Technical skills / abilities:

• Language: Japanese (native level), English (business level), French is a plus.
• PC skill: (PowerPoint, Excel, Word)

Personal skills

• Team player
• Out-box thinking
• Customer-oriented
• Business/sales oriented

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