Marketing Communications - Trade Show Coordinator

Elessent Clean Technologies is seeking a Trade Show Coordinator to plan and execute industry trade shows and customer events, ensuring alignment with corporate strategy. Responsibilities include liaising with vendors, managing logistics, and coordinating promotional items. The role requires 5-7 years of experience in managing trade shows and proficiency in MS Office. This position is based in St. Louis, MO, indicating it is not a remote job.
Elessent Clean Technologies is a global leader in process technologies to drive sustainability and carbon neutrality in the metal, fertilizer, chemical, and oil refining industries with an unwavering commitment to customer support. We provide extensive global expertise across our portfolio of offerings in key applications – MECS® sulfuric acid production, STRATCO® alkylation, BELCO® wet scrubbing, and IsoTherming® hydroprocessing. Offering critical process equipment, products, technology, and services, we enable an array of industrial markets, including phosphate fertilizer, non-ferrous metals, oil refining, petrochemicals, and chemicals, to minimize their environmental impact and optimize productivity. We are dedicated to helping our customers produce high-quality products used in everyday life in the safest, most environmentally sound way possible, with a vision to make the world a better place by creating clean alternatives to traditional industrial processes.

Trade Show Coordinator

About Us
• Elessent Clean Technologies is a leading source of solutions for decarbonizing the industrial manufacturing sector and transitioning the industry to a sustainable future. Our clean technology solutions minimize environmental impact and optimize productivity while remaining cost competitive. As a responsible supplier and partner to the metal, fertilizer, chemical, petrochemical, and oil refining industries, our technology portfolio includes MECS® sulfuric acid production, STRATCO® alkylation, BELCO® gas cleaning, and IsoTherming® hydroprocessing. Offering critical process equipment, products, technology, and services, we are dedicated to helping our customers produce high‐quality, cleaner products for the world.

About the Role
• The Trade Show Coordinator is a self-starter responsible for the planning and execution of industry trade shows and external, customer-facing events to ensure alignment with corporate strategy and trade show objectives.
• In this role, the Trade Show Coordinator reports to the Marketing Director and works closely with the marketing team as well as interfaces with all Elessent business lines.

Responsibilities
• Plan and execute key industry trade shows, collaborating with various business lines.
• Liaise with trade show organizers and third-party vendors for exhibit details, show services, and booth assets.
• Lead planning & debrief meetings.
• Generate timely and clear communications with attendees, staff, and stakeholders.
• Manage trade show tracker and/or develop an event plan for each trade show.
• Manage promotional item selection, to include procurement and tracking.
• Manage logistics including booth selection, staff registration, trade show material coordination, booth asset shipping (domestic & international), and brochure/signage printing.
• Manage trade show spending against budget.
• Develop a lead management process and ensure alignment with forecasting.
• Coordinate Elessent-sponsored customer events, including venue management and F&B selection.
• Travel to and support on-site execution of key trade shows and events.

Experience Requirements
• 5-7 years’ experience managing various sized trade shows, meetings and events. Lead management experience is a strong plus.
• Proficiency in MS Office Suite required.
• Strong project management skills with proven ability to prioritize effectively and manage workload in order to meet multiple competing deadlines.
• Must be a self-starter capable of working in a fast-paced environment.
• Some meetings are hosted/attended in different time zones; evening work may occasionally be required.
• Must be well organized.

Soft Skills
• Strong Time Management Skills
• Attention to Detail
• Excellent Written and Verbal Communication
• Creative Thinking and Problem-solving Skills
• Building Relationships (Internal + External)

Location & Commitments
• Full-time, hybrid position located in St. Louis, MO
• Anticipated travel approximately 10 to 20% (domestic)
• Ability to lift up to 50 lbs.