About the Role
The Oatly Department of Mind Control (ODMC) is seeking an Sr. Event Producer to join our Experiential Team in North America. This role offers a blend of creativity, logistics, and hands-on work, focusing on turning event concepts into reality, particularly for trade shows, sampling activities, and brand activations. The position requires approximately 50 days of domestic travel per year, often including weekends.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end event strategy, aligning with brand and creative goals.
- Manage large scale budgets, negotiate with suppliers and ensure accurate inventory tracking.
- Serve as the key contact for agencies and exhibitor houses, providing updates and executional milestones.
- Identify new areas for opportunities, within cross-functional teams, where the brand can show with purpose, distinction and showcase best in class activations.
- Lead development and tracking of long & short-term plans against each project.
- Maintain a keen eye on aesthetics and functionality during the physical build, ensuring everything aligns with the overall plan.
- Lead identification, hiring, and training of any on-site support, when necessary.
- Logistical planning and onsite support for other areas outside of trade-specific: mobile touring, pop-ups, HQ support, and other experiential needs that arise.
- Collaborate with event management, addressing potential problems as they arise.
- Manage individual budgets while aligning with the manager to stay within targets.
- Serve as a point of contact for teams when multiple individuals are involved in a project, ensuring synergy, collaboration & connectivity.
- Measure project performance to identify areas for improvement.
- Travel required for the set-up, execution, and dismantling of identified events (travel dependent upon trade season ~30%).
Requirements
- At least 5+ years of documented experience working within the trade industry, or other event executional roles, where you gained practical knowledge of event logistics and physical build.
- Ability to source cultural partners and/or vendors to identify unique, can-not-miss opportunities.
- Ability to seamlessly transition from office planning to on-site execution.
- Print production knowledge: You will be in charge of ordering marketing material, signage, merch, and other event assets.
- Experience in working within CPG, understanding organizational structure and connectivity of activations to support broader business initiatives.
Skills
- Working knowledge of Monday, Bynder, and Google Suite is a plus.
Location
- NYC or NYC Metro area
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Sr. Event Producer
- 5+ years of documented experience
Salary/Compensations
- $125,000
Benefits
- Flexible vacation
- Great benefits
- Pet insurance
- Paid volunteer days off
- Free oatmilk
- Genuinely great coworkers
About the Company
- Oatly is the original oatmilk company that started in Sweden over 25 years ago and has since expanded to the U.S.
- Sustainability, health, and transparency are the core values that guide everything we do.
- We exist to help people live a healthier life without recklessly taxing the planet’s resources and to change the food system for the better.
- We drive change through the power of oats and through a significant reduction in cow’s milk consumption.
- We are nimble and agile (not chaotic) in how we work, and we’re grounded in a long company history dating way back to the last century.
Equal Opportunity
- Oatly is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.
