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About the Role
This role involves overseeing the development of brand events and activations, collaborating with various teams to ensure effective planning and delivery of multiple events and activations throughout the year. The ideal candidate will embody Urban Outfitters' values and be actively engaged in current youth trends.
Responsibilities
- Assist in concepting, programming, and delivery of Urban Outfitters brand events and activations across the store portfolio, including all elements of event production.
- Support all stores in the delivery of local store-led events and activations, including concepting new local event programs.
- Work across and support all static activations such as store galleries, store photobooths, concessions, and the UO Marketplace program.
- Support in the delivery of internal events and activations, such as the yearly conference.
- Produce plans, concepts, and creative proposals for events/activations and event/activation programs.
- Perform ad hoc general marketing duties.
Requirements
- Demonstrable experience concepting, producing, and delivering events and activations at scale.
- Project management experience and skills, including logistics management and vendor sourcing and briefing.
- Experience and understanding of events licensing and risk assessment processes and budget management.
- Excellent organizational skills with a strong ability to manage logistical processes and budgets, overseeing multiple projects with conflicting deadlines.
- The ability to think creatively, producing new processes, ideas, and approaches relating to events and activations.
- Strong collaboration across internal and external teams, building strong relationships.
- Experience working in or on music events (desirable).
- Experience working on events in France, Germany, and/or Spain (desirable).
- Language skills in French, German, or Spanish are a bonus.
Skills
- Event production
- Event programming
- Logistics management
- Vendor sourcing
- Budget management
- Project management
- Creative thinking
- Collaboration
- Trend analysis
Location
- Philadelphia
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Assistant
Benefits
- Flexible start and finish times
- Bring your dog to work
- Employees Assistance program
- Fully equipped free gym
- On-site wellness room
- 50% discount of external gym memberships
- Private Medical Insurance
- Up to 40% off at all URBN Brands
- One paid day to volunteer or fundraise for a charity of your choice
- Cycle to work scheme
- Season ticket loan
- Structured support within the business
- Continued learning and development
About the Company
- Urban Outfitters started out as a single boutique in 1970s Philadelphia with creativity and uniqueness at its core.
- 50 years on, and over 60 stores across Europe later, we’ve become a destination for emerging design, unexpected styling, One-Of-A-Kind vintage and homeware that makes you want to hit the share button.
- We speak to a social community of over 10 million forward-thinking individuals, bringing together a nostalgia for the past with an enthusiasm to shape the future.
- The UO community are culturally aware, they shape the music scene, they live a digitally native life and they wear style trends before anyone else.
- At our core, we empower our customers and staff to express themselves, unapologetically, living life in a way that's truly authentic to them.
- Our values include being Progressive, Creative, Inclusive, Responsible, and Compassionate.
Equal Opportunity
- URBN is an Equal Opportunities Employer committed to diversity and inclusion.
- We provide equal employment opportunities regardless of age, sexual orientation, sex, gender reassignment, pregnancy, marital status, religion, race, or disability.
- We base all our employment decisions on merit, job requirements and business needs.