Chantel Brandtman

Company Overview: InfoTrack is a leading global technology company that provides law firms access to legal information and services through seamless integrations with their case management systems.

• Owning the development, planning and execution of events for Australia and New Zealand within budget and timeframe
• Working with the business to develop content themes and topic presentations for target audiences
• Working with the marketing team to ensure event collateral is consistent and designed to brand guidelines
• Engaging internal stakeholders and developing internal briefs per event to ensure all stakeholders are well prepared and aligned
• Management and execution of client gifts and entertainment
• Managing all aspects of event bump ins and outs and ensuring events run smoothly
• Identifying and securing speakers
• Facilitating webinars and ensuring all aspects of virtual logistics are effectively managed
• Devising themes and topics for engaging, thought-leadership webinars and seeking internal and external subject-matter experts to deliver topics
• Working with the GM of Marketing to negotiate and deliver sponsorship agreements
• Building relationships with industry bodies and integration partners
• Measuring and reporting on the performance of events activities and identifying opportunities for improvement or optimisation

Company Overview: The Swiss Re Group is one of the world's leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient. The aim of the Swiss Re Group is to enable society to thrive and progress, creating new opportunities and solutions for its clients.

• Managing Asia Pacific (APAC) client events from conferences, dinners, boardroom lunches, lunch and learns, tradeshows and webinars.
• Supporting Life & Health and Property & Casualty client management teams with their client events to ensure they were in align with business goals.
• Managing all internal staff events: company conference, team offsite’s and leadership offsites.
• Management of Cvent registration system and training for APAC Events team.
• Management of Corporate Event calendars across the business.
• Management of CRM system.

Company Overview: Australia’s largest corporate event provider of specialist conference and incentive services and is a fully accredited and licensed conference and travel management company. The range of services cievents provide their clients cover all the logistical, budgeting and on-site aspects of running an event – such as online registration, air travel arrangements, and all ground arrangements both in Australia and offshore.

• Maintaining client relationships and ensuring their objectives and requirements are achieved and exceeded
• Negotiating contracts with suppliers and monitoring critical paths with the client liaising with suppliers
• Preparing proposals and budgets for both new and repeat business
• Responsible for Event budget management and reconciliation of events
• Negotiation of rates with all third-party suppliers
• Managing and setting up and running all onsite components of conferences and incentives
• Managing delegate database and where necessary point of contact for conference and incentive delegates
• Managing air and accommodation inventories
• Preparing communications and documentation for delegates
• Designing and creating teaser, menus, invitations and other collateral
• Managing extension travel arrangements
• Managing support staff where necessary

Achievements & Overall Project Management

• Nestle National Sales Conference 2006, Sydney. (1500 delegates)
• IBM KYI Incentive Conference 2007, Ayers Rock. (135 delegates)
• Commonwealth Bank, ‘Global Markets’ 2007, Hunter Valley. (400 delegates)
• Woolworths Conference, 2006, Sydney (5000 delegates)
• Canon Australia BISG Dealer Incentives, 2005, Canada (80 delegates)
• Canon Australia Top Gun Incentives, 2003 - 2007
• Optus Franchises & Retail Conferences, 2007, Queensland (300 delegates)
• Eli Lilly, National Sales Conference 2006, Perth (500 delegates)
• Subaru Dealer Principal Incentives & Car Launches 2003 - 2005 (various)
• Merck Sharp & Dohme Sales Conference 2011 – 2012 Bangkok (500 delegates)
• Toyota Conferences and Dealer Principal Sales Incentives 2011 -2013 (various)
• Vodafone Annual Sales Conference 2011– 2012 Sydney (800 delegates)
• McDonalds Store Manager Convention 2012 (900 delegates)

Company Overview: Business and Private Banking is one of three client-facing businesses within the Commonwealth Bank and provides wealth and relationship management for the Bank’s premium personal, business, corporate and institutional clients. B&PB was developed to meet the many common needs of these premium client groups and ensure the Bank achieves its vision ‘to be Australia’s finest financial services organisation through excelling in customer service’ by providing clients with banking, broking, investment and insurance solutions.

• Organise a variety of engaging and creative events and entertainment in line with business needs. Liaison with third party suppliers, product areas, Bank and external speakers, co-ordinate invitations and RSVP’s and attendance at events to ensure consistently high standard of delivery
• Managed end to end overall events liaising with the communications team for pre and post event internal promotion
• Manage all budgets come within budget and continually negotiate prices with suppliers
• Ensure all events and associated materials are within brand guidelines
• Source and manage the supply of promotional materials including management of signage and merchandise
• Provide event advice and recommendations to stakeholders that will reach event objectives and drive outcomes
• Preparing thorough briefing notes and onsite materials
• Maintaining the master event calendar

Achievements & Overall Project Management

• PBS Wide General Managers Conference, Sydney
• PBS Wide Executive Managers Conference, Sydney
• Agricultural Field Days and Exhibitions (various)
• International Speaker Roadshow for Economist David Hale Australia wide
• Economic Briefings with Craig James, Chief Equities Economist, Comsec
• Small Business Forum Roadshow Peter Switzer, Expert on money and business
• Local Business Banking Conference & Rewards & Recognition Program
• IB&M Signature client events
• Broker Agency client events
• Corporate Financial Services Conference
• Australasian Fixed Income Conference

• Managed budgets and negotiated contracts with vendors, ensuring cost-effective event execution.

Company Overview: Hill and Knowlton is one of the 5 largest Public Relations consultancies in the world. Specialising public relations, public affairs and strategic communications.

• Media relations, press release writing, report writing, co-ordinating and running events, Public Relations Strategy
• Achievements & Overall Project Management
• Great Plains Software, organised analyst program secured top analyst houses, which included IDC, Gartner Group, Forrester, Frost and Sullivan, Meta Group and AMR Research.
• Organised media event for IBM launching EoN ‘Edge of Network’. This was the most successful launch with 90 journalists attending the event.