Customer Experience & Events Manager, Troup

Position: Customer Experience & Events Manager, Troup County
## Customer Experience & Events Manager, Troup County
* Interface is a global flooring solutions company and sustainability leader, offering an integrated portfolio of carpet tile and resilient flooring products that includes Interface carpet tile and LVT, nora rubber flooring, and FLOR premium area rugs for commercial and residential spaces. Made with purpose and without compromise, Interface flooring brings more sophisticated design, more performance, more innovation, and more climate progress to interior spaces.

A decades-long pioneer in sustainability, Interface remains “all in” on becoming a restorative business. Today, the company is focusing on carbon reductions, not offsets, as it works toward achieving its verified science-based targets by 2030 and its goal to become a carbon negative enterprise by 2040.
* Interface is seeking a
** Customer Experience & Events Manager
** for our Troup county (LaGrange, GA) location who will be responsible for leading the planning, management, and delivery of innovative, inspiring, and memorable customer experiences for a purpose-driven company. This role serves both internal and external customers and ensures alignment with our sales and marketing strategy.

As an integral part of the sales process, this position requires close collaboration with account executives, sales leadership, and senior leadership to shape and execute impactful experiences at our facilities. A successful candidate would have the innate creative capacity to craft thoughtful hospitality experiences, have a proven track record of next-level organization, have a passion for building relationships and is internally motivated to constant evolution and improvement.

In the primary function of customer experience planning, the manager will partner with our internal customers to define the strategy, create a customized experience plan and then schedule and execute in partnership with internal experts, business leaders and other members of the marketing team based on the scope of the visit or event, in person or virtual. This likely includes but is not limited to:
* Shared responsibility for the Customer Experience (CX) team calendar and ongoing management of support requests, budgeting and approval process via Salesforce CRM.
* Prioritization, scheduling and coordinating customer visits or event support for sales or marketing-led events (mill visits, summits, promotional events, trade shows, sales meetings and other priority customer-engagement activities).
* All logistics coordination – transportation, lodging, catering, recreation – and management of internal and some external communication. That may include phone or email follow up, digital invites, app set up and management, surveying and more.
* Be accountable for bringing ideas to the table when planning any event, not just execute the status quo; creativity is required, not preferred.
* Coordinate subject matter experts, internal teams and vendors to deliver a curated customer experience; creating, communicating and managing the agenda.
* Establish and maintain relationships across departments with our key subject matter experts and resources; absorb internal knowledge and brand stories and continuously consider updates and improvements to the information shared with customers.
* Be the on-site contact prior to and during visits or events, actively managing and ensuring that all is well executed, meets or exceeds expectations and adheres to schedule. Support any miscellaneous needs or changes throughout.
* Managing all event and visit costs to a pre-established budget, and reconciling all expenses.
* Working with Customer Experience counterparts, implement and execute a consistent process for gathering feedback, insights and measuring the success of experiences. Use insights to inform future event plans through a lens of continuous improvement.
* Maintain a high standard of communication with stakeholders, vendors and participants/attendees at each stage of planning, as deemed appropriate by the situation, and to meet or exceed customer expectations every day.
* Manage the integrity of the Interface experience, brand and values across all of…