Event Specialist at Deloitte in Zaventem, Flemish Brabant, Belgium

Description of the position

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Your journey with us

Our Marketing & Communications team is expanding, and we have an exciting career opportunity for an Event Specialist.

Are you passionate about creating seamless event experiences? Do you combine strong organisational skills with a hands-on, service-minded approach? Can you keep multiple stakeholders, suppliers, deadlines, and event details aligned in a fast-paced environment? If you take pride in operational excellence and enjoy bringing events to life from planning through delivery, we want to hear from you.

The Role

• Event planning and delivery: Coordinate corporate events and activations from planning through on-site delivery and follow-up, ensuring a smooth and professional participant experience.
• Guest and stakeholder management: Act as a key point of contact for guests, speakers, internal teams, and partners, managing invitations, registrations, confirmations, practical information, and event communications.
• Supplier and venue management: Source venues and suppliers, compare proposals, support negotiations, coordinate contracts and briefings, and monitor deliverables such as catering, production, and logistics.
• Project, logistics, and budget management: Maintain project plans, budgets, timelines, checklists, and run-of-show documents; monitor costs, dependencies, and risks; and keep stakeholders aligned.
• Event technology, brand, and administration: Use event tools for registration, attendee communications, digital check-in, and reporting, while managing purchase requests and invoices and ensuring consistent brand and quality standards.
• Measurement and continuous improvement: Define event objectives and KPIs, evaluate attendance, engagement, satisfaction, and budget performance, and translate feedback into practical improvements.

Let's talk about you

• You hold a bachelor’s degree in event management, marketing, communications, or an equivalent field, with at least three years of relevant event experience.
• You can independently coordinate events or defined workstreams from planning through delivery and evaluation.
• You have experience sourcing venues and suppliers, comparing proposals, coordinating deliverables, and working with internal stakeholders.
• You are highly organised and detail-oriented, with the ability to manage multiple deadlines, budgets, and changing priorities.
• You are a proactive, hands-on problem-solver who takes ownership, remains composed under pressure, and follows through on commitments.
• You communicate clearly and professionally and collaborate effectively with diverse stakeholders.
• You are a forward-thinking professional with a strong curiosity for emerging AI tools and a drive to explore how they can enhance event planning, delivery, and participant experiences.
• You are proficient in English, with fluency in Dutch or French, and are flexible when events require evening or occasional weekend work.

Our story

The Marketing team operates as an internal communications agency, planning and directly overseeing all marketing and communication campaigns relating to firm branding, advertising, key sponsorships and strategic partnership initiatives, public relations and corporate hospitality and event management. We also manage and execute the firm's internal and external digital marketing strategy. Our expertise covers online publishing, marketing and advertising techniques and CRM strategy.

Clients & Industries helps us position Deloitte as a global market leader. We support the industry and business leaders in the development of building trusted advisor relationships by delivering professional client and industry insights that add value to companies. By working together, we bring to bear all of our expertise, capabilities, assets and bet practices, to ensure we make a positive impact on our clients' business and to become the first choice for clients in selected business sectors. The Energy, Resources & Industrials (ER&I) industry practice delivers professional services to some of the world’s largest oil, gas & chemicals, industrial products & construction, power, utilities & renewables and mining & metals companies. It is one of Deloitte’s largest industry segment, across different areas: strategy, finance, human capital, operations, technology, risk, tax, legal and audit.

Who is Deloitte? We provide industry-leading audit and assurance, tax and legal, consulting and related services. We are committed to driving innovation across offerings to help our clients address their challenges, while giving our professionals opportunities to learn and grow in this era of transformation. In Belgium, +5000 dedicated professionals active in +10 offices, take great pride in bringing multidisciplinary expertise to a wide variety of clients, from national and international companies, small, fast-growing and large organizations to public institutions and governmental authorities. Why Deloitte? Be the true you! We foster diversity and inclusion and encourage you to bring your authentic self to work. Explore, question and collaborate while building a career that inspires and energises you. Never stop growing! Diversity of thought makes us stronger. At Deloitte, we tailor a personalized learning experience, offering you the opportunity to grow at your own pace and achieve maximum impact. We practice what we preach! As a Purpose-led organisation, at the heart of everything we do is a set of timeless principles and unifying values. Life looks different for each of us, so we created a varied benefits package that you can tap into:

• My Benefits My Choice, a flexible rewards plan tailored to your lifestyle and priorities
• Sustainable transport options offered by Mobility@Deloitte
• Flexible work arrangements for all and initiatives supported by Parents & Caregivers @Deloitte
• Wellbeing tips and activities powered by Energise@Deloitte
• Topped off with other health benefits and insurance opportunities

Empowering our employees with flexible work arrangements remains essential in today's reality:

• Hybrid workplace: combination of home office and on-site (+10 offices in Belgium or client's premises).
• Part-time employment: all our jobs are open to full-time or part-time work under a 90% or 80% regime.

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