[Hiring] Transportation & Staffing Manager @PRA Business Events

Role Description

This is a remote role that involves 35-50% travel. Applicants must be based near a major airport to be considered for this role.

PRA's Strategic Account Team was established to create a seamless and consistent experience for our key signature clients in every destination their events operate. Strategic Account Teams are comprised of dedicated cross-functional experts who work in collaboration to gain an intimate and in-depth understanding of the clients' history, objectives, requirements, and program preferences. Armed with this insight, the Strategic Account Team serves as the client ambassador & advocate throughout the PRA system.

The Transportation & Staffing Manager (TSM) is a key role within the Strategic Account Team, overseeing some of the company's largest transportation programs, ensuring excellence in design, planning, and delivery.

Qualifications

• Skilled in expanding relationships with existing customers by understanding their needs.
• Track record of successfully managing large-scale projects for key clients across multiple locations.
• Ability to travel multiple times per quarter to engage with key accounts.
• Lives core values: Act with humility, Deliver with intensity, Own your outcome.

Requirements

• Manage and maintain existing relationships with key accounts in collaboration with the assigned Global Account Director.
• Help drive organic growth within key accounts through proactive account planning and strategic relationship management.
• Work collaboratively with the team to design, develop, and execute efficient, cost-effective transportation plans and proposals.
• Oversee complex quoting and budget development while identifying opportunities for efficiencies and cost savings.
• Assist with the planning, logistics, scheduling, and on-site execution of assigned transportation programs.
• Oversee on-site transportation services, including vehicle staging, routing, dispatch coordination, service schedules, and real-time operational adjustments.
• Assist with Data Management which includes arrival & departure manifests and other transportation programming.
• Source, negotiate, contract, and manage transportation providers and other suppliers.
• Manage program changes with suppliers and internal partners during planning and on-site operation.
• Maintain a pool of subject matter expert field staff and staff projects based on availability and specific skill sets required.
• Prepare, distribute and review relevant program information and provide direction for field staff.
• Process and manage field staff compensation including timesheets, expense reports, and pay rate.
• Conduct pre-con meetings with client/hotel to review all program details as confirmed.
• Manage all components of on-site program operation.
• Drive program profitability ensuring Gross Profitability targets are met.
• Manage submission and receipt of client program deposits as per contract terms.
• Timely completion of post-operation Program Closeout process as per PRA protocol.
• Maintain the ability to travel multiple times per quarter to engage with key accounts.
• Effectively manage competing priorities across multiple functions.
• Demonstrate the ability to balance high-level strategic thinking with hands-on execution.
• Adapt to and work within different time zones.
• Ability to remain on your feet for extended periods and lift and carry items weighing up to 50 pounds.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance.
• Company-sponsored Life Insurance and Short/Long Term Disability Insurance.
• 401(k) with Match.
• Parental Leave.
• Cell Phone and Home Internet Stipends.
• Paid Vacation, Sick Leave, and Holidays.
• Pet Insurance.
• Flexible Spending Accounts.
• Other optional benefit coverages.