AUDREY BESNIER
Senior Event Manager, CSI - Capitol Services Inc.
With 8 years of successful experience in the hospitality industry, I have developped competencies in sales, marketing, management and operations.
I speak French, English and Spanish. I have lived and worked in several different countries which gives me the ability to adapt to any kind of environment and to have an intelligent approach of cultural diversity.
96 contactsProject management: Planning meetings, conventions and special events for national and international corporations and government organizations in the Washington DC and Baltimore area. Writting proposals, selecting vendors and negociating contracts, operating programs from start to finish, hiring event staff and managing the event team onsite (5 to 30 people per events in average)
2004 - 2007Job description :
- Event management: Planning meeting and other professional events. Searching for appropriate locations in France and abroad. Creating concepts to match customers’ targets. Finding partners with genuine activities. Making quotations, following every step of the event preparation.
- Marketing: Understanding customers needs, developing and selling appropriate solutions, prospecting, managing customer relations, negotiating prices and conditions with suppliers
- Team management: (2 project supervisors, 1 assistant) – assigning projects, setting up processes, approving offers, training new comers
- Office work: preparing invoices, following up payments, paying suppliers...