Careers
Working at Kenes
Kenes is keen on building and maintaining a global team of confident, competent, customer-oriented employees. We are more than 300 strong – a true ‘family’ of dedicated professionals who provide the best possible service and support to clients around the globe. Simply put, Kenes employees are initiative-takers, doers, starters and finishers.
At Kenes, we ask you to bring your personality to work. We aim to reflect the diverse nature of society and value our employees’ contributions irrespective of age, sex, race, or religion. We are a team of multinational, multicultural, multilingual and multitalented individuals. Kenes is looking for creative, ambitious and dedicated individuals to join our team. We offer the opportunity for personal and professional growth, with a competitive salary and benefits package.
If you are interested in joining a uniquely professional and enthusiastic team, view the open positions below or send your CV to [email protected].
Position Number #14-2016
Kenes is looking for a Meeting Planner to join our Operations department. The Meeting Planner will manage all operational aspects of conferences in accordance with the provided timeline, specs and budget. The Meeting Planner will also manage an operational Gantt including schedules set for supporting departments (i.e. managing project timelines of additional team members, such as volunteers). The Meeting Planner will further ensure that the client expectations are met, coupled with ensuring the highest level of service and adherence to company standards.
Main Areas of Responsibility
- Lead the conference operational team (from various supporting departments) and excel with interpersonal and management skills necessary to ensure the success of the conference
- Manage overall conference operational Gantt, including schedules set for supporting departments
- Responsible for day-to-day budget expense management per conference, including obtaining proposals, updating budgets, purchase orders and payment approvals
- Work closely with the client on conference logistics (i.e. clients preferred conference set-up, styles, designs, and production)
- Work with suppliers on conference production, including (but not limited to) builders, AV, IT, freight, Internet, signage, bags, printing, staffing, catering, and social events
- Maintain the master project plan, manage project scope, and client expectations; function as a liaison between clients and project team members (logistics, budget, preparatory meetings and site visits, and on-site arrangements including social events)
Logistical / Technical tasks
- Congress layouts: exhibition planning and management, IT infrastructure, conference building requirements (i.e. registration desks and poster sessions), catering, meeting rooms, signage, shipments and material handling, social events logistics (decor, entertainment, etc.)
- Review/assure quality of conference products, including from supporting departments (i.e. managing timelines, tracking software used for congress requirements)
- Critical analysis of working processes and onsite conclusions – regular feedback to team and management, including presentation of possible solutions
Skills and Qualifications
- Excellent time management skills
- Multi-tasking
- Service oriented (high level)
- Experience in managing budgets / financial targets
- Leader and at the same time can work as “one of the team”
- High degree of accuracy
- Outstanding communication skills (spoken and written)
- Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
- Independent with high level of discipline
Education and Experience
- Academic degree – required
- Ability to work long hours, overtime as needed, including weekends
- Global citizen in spirit – position requires frequent travel abroad
- Fluent/high-level of English; knowledge of other European languages – an advantage
- Excellent computer skills, including all Microsoft Office programs (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
Position Number #13-2016
Kenes is looking for a highly motivated Marketing Researcher and Data Analyst to support congress management, marketing activities, and business development for Kenes International’s clients, through the preparation of background profiles of the clients and their competitive landscape. To provide the organisation with forecasts of future event turn-outs based on internal data of participant behaviour patterns, and to prepare special research reports for projects on demand.
Responsibilities
- The Researcher independently maps out the knowledge requirement for each project, identifies gaps in the existing knowledge and devises solutions to fill those gaps
- The Researcher produces research reports that include the overview of the client’s background and competitive environment for each of the company’s events in a timely manner
- The Researcher creates and applies queries to scientific databases and quickly assimilates medical and scientific information from multiple sources, distilling the essence into written reports in a clear and communicative fashion, for the layperson
- The Researcher supports the business development projects and new initiatives that company rolls out on demand
- The Researcher prepares forecasts based on analysis of past and current participation patterns and delivers them in a timely manner
Skills and Qualifications
- Be a self-directed learner with an inquisitive nature and an analytic mind
- Excellent reading & writing skills in English
- Be computer & information literate with an emphasis on Excel skills
- Strong collaboration skills and a good team player
- Customer service-oriented
- Self-motivated with ability to work independently
- Highly detail-oriented
Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in marketing/ business/ social sciences, or a related field – an advantage
- Minimum 2 years professional experience in research, statistical data, analysis and interview techniques – an advantage
- Specify market research, analytics, and experience with preparation of RFPs for research projects
- International experience in a global work environment
- English level – native or mother tongue, other European languages – an advantage
- Excellent computer skills, including all Microsoft Office programs
Position Number #12-2016
In order to fulfil the Kenes clients’ needs and improve the quality of their programs, we are offering a position with both professional challenges and development perspectives.
With the objective of delivering innovative educational solutions designed to improve physician knowledge and competencies, Kenes Education is looking for a Continuing Education Specialist, focused on continuing medical education. As a specialist in (e-)learning design and development, you will create impactful and fun e-learning interventions contributing towards improved physician knowledge and competencies, and ultimately improved patient care.
Together with the Kenes Education team, the Continuing Education Specialist will work on exciting (e-)learning projects for clients, and manage the development process of e-learning projects. Next to this, the Continuing Education Specialist supports the Kenes Education team in the CME/CPD accreditation process.
Responsibilities
- Design engaging (e-)learning programs and tools for a variety of medical topics and healthcare professionals
- Implement learning content including writing, editing and delivery of high-quality educational resources produced together with healthcare professionals (content experts), according to project needs, timelines and specifications
- Coordinate communication with educational committees (healthcare professionals/ content experts)
- Support and maintain the online learning platforms on a daily basis
- Ensure that all developed, written content is copy edited and clear prior to finalisation
- Assess the usage reports of the online learning platforms and activities, inform stakeholder and take appropriate actions if required
- Conduct ongoing review of different methods of materials and make recommendations to improve the way we offer our content, service and support to our clients
- Provide needs assessments and gap analysis on different topics in healthcare
- Continually seek improvements in external vendor management and supplier strategy
- Coordinate and support on the roll out of (e-)learning initiatives
- Support the Kenes Education CME/CPD Accreditation and Compliance Office
- Advise on blended learning delivery strategy
- Other tasks as needed
Education and Experience
- Bachelor degree in education and/or academic background
- Minimum of three (3) years work experience, preferably in medical education
- Experience and knowledge about online learning systems (LMS and CMS/ authoring tools)
- Proven ability to develop and implement pragmatic and innovative learning solutions with an understanding of adult learning principles
- Fluent English (spoken and written) and clear communication skills
- Copywriting skills with a command of writing conventions and the ability to self-edit
- Strong computer literacy including Microsoft Office (e.g. Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Excel) and Adobe PDF
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work collaboratively with colleagues from different departments and with healthcare professional clients
- Flexible and responsive to tight timelines
- Project management skills – capable of working on multiple projects at the same time
Position Number #11-2016
Kenes is looking for a highly motivated VIP Administrative Assistant to join our Senior Account Managers division. The VIP Administrative Assistant provides support to association VIP’s: coordinating meetings, travel arrangements, visa requirements and other administration activities according to the association’s needs.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate off-congress meetings with the associations, including responsibility for logistics and operational arrangements
- Prepare relevant materials for meetings
- Organize travel arrangements, visa requirements, and itineraries
- Prepare and track expense reports, purchase orders and budgets of different meetings
- Responsible for the written communication and correspondence with the association (in English)
- Work with associates in Israel and abroad, including association VIP’s, committee members and invited speakers
- Perform other related duties and managing projects as assigned
Requirements
- Excellent time management and multi-tasking skills
- Outstanding communication skills in both written and verbal English
- Highly detail-oriented, very well organized
- Service oriented (high level)
- Efficient and responsible
Education and Experience
- Previous experience as personal assistant – a significant advantage
- Native English speaker or mother tongue level – a must
- Willingness to work flexible hours as needed
- Strong computer skills, including Microsoft Outlook, Excel and Word
Position Number #10-2016
Kenes is looking for a Registration Specialist to join the Registration department. The Registration Specialist is responsible for the registration of congress participants, invited speakers, committee members and other targeted audiences in the global events network of Kenes.
Responsibilities
Participant Registration
- Registration management in accordance with predefined work plan/timetable and in keeping with Kenes’ congress registration policies/guidelines
- Responsible for entire registration “life cycle” including entering participant data, communication with all parties involved in the registration process, generating registration reports based on relevant data to finalize accounts with all suppliers post-congress
Accommodation
- Manage hotel room block for all invited speakers in sync with the Accommodation Sales team
Requirements
- Highly detail-oriented, very well organized and reliable
- Ability to work independently and in a team, reporting problems as they arise
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment; multitasking during all congress phases (prior to or during the event), with ability to work well under pressure for long periods, to prioritize and meet tight deadlines
- High level of customer service
- Excellent communication skills – ability to hold correspondence in English
- Ability to work long hours, overtime as needed, including weekends
- Ability to travel abroad (5-6 times per year)
Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree – an advantage
- Fluent English, verbal and written communication (mother-tongue level)
- Computer skills – high level comprehension/ability, including Microsoft Office, ERP systems
- Experience in Hotels, Tourism, Travel or Professional Event Management industry – an advantage
- Knowledge of rates, established concepts and role of employees in the hotel industry – an advantage
- Experience working in an international/global environment – an advantage
Position Number #09-2016
Kenes is looking for a highly motivated Email Marketing Coordinator to join our Marketing division. The Email Marketing Coordinator will be responsible for the smooth operation of the company’s e-mail marketing campaigns, implementing them through an automated email marketing system (Marketo) and subsequently creating dashboards and reports to show outcomes and marketing ROI.
Responsibilities
- Ensure messages are sent in proper form and template.
- Coordinate with the various departments in the company to execute swift launching of email marketing campaigns
- Coordinate the multi-client email campaign system
- Maintain on-time schedules of the various email campaigns
- QA on all outgoing email campaigns
- Creating behavioral segmentations of databases for email campaigns
Requirements
- 2+ years experience in Email Marketing
- Strong analytical abilities – analytics tools
- Solid understanding of usability within the web and email channels
- Experience with Email Marketing tools
- Marketo experience – an advantage
- Salesforce knowledge – an advantage
- Knowledge in HTML and CSS
- Creative and quick learner
Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in marketing/ business/ social sciences, or a related field – an advantage
- Experience with a CRM – an advantage
- Native English speaker/mother tongue level, verbal and written – an advantage
- Excellent computer skills, including all Microsoft Office programs, familiarity with additional computer programs
- Reading HTML – an advantage
Position Number #08-2016
Kenes is looking for Scientific Programme Coordinator to join our Operations Department. The Scientific Programme Coordinator will be responsible for international Kenes congresses, with a focus on Europe.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for written communications, promotional and printed materials in relation to the congress programme
- Preparation and management of all aspects of the scientific programme
- Contact with congress VIPs, including committee members and invited speakers
- Create/track initiated and dictated correspondence in English, with clients and other VIPs
- Work closely with the committee on the scientific programme, including abstract processing/scheduling
- Receive/upload information/data to the congress database
- Provide texts (in English) for project literature, including proofreading
- Responsible for print production of congress materials; coordinate/plan with graphics department
- Manage, track and QA the scientific programme
- Adhere to work procedures and production deadlines
- Track project material (e.g. abstracts)
- Plan/prioritize tasks for work schedule; report to Operations Manager
Requirements
- Highly detail-oriented, well organized, attention to detail and accuracy processing vast amounts of data
- Ability to prioritize and multitask (4-6 projects simultaneously)
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and work under pressure for long periods of time
- Pro-active approach – ability to foresee problems before they occur
- Service oriented – ability to communicate effectively with clients
- Strong collaboration skills and a good team player
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with ability to draft correspondence in English
Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree – an advantage
- Minimum 1-2 years’ professional experience in an administration support role
- English – fluent – native speaker/mother tongue level, verbal and written – a must
- Foreign passport- strong advantage
- Excellent computer skills, including Microsoft Office, Outlook, Internet, ERP systems; familiarity with additional computer programmes, CMS and website back office editing – an advantage
Position Number #07-2016
Kenes is looking for an entrepreneurial spirit, commercially oriented, proactive Marketing Manager to join the Kenes Group Innovation team. The Innovation team leads the group’s new direction, developing concepts and activities that are implemented globally. The Marketing Manager will assume responsibility for identifying business opportunities and developing the innovation pipeline for the company. Together with the Innovation team, he/she will evaluate the potential growth for each opportunity, and recommend a course of action. In addition, an initial strategy and branding of the selected activities will be defined.
Responsibilities
- Proactively generate, brainstorm, develop & filter new meeting concepts/models
- Develop and maintain new channels and partnerships
- Meet with key customers, stakeholders and partners in order to acquire an in-depth understanding of their needs and wishes
- Research the viability of commercial aspects of selected opportunities
- Able to draw conclusion from research and assertively recommend course of action
- Recommend and implement a strategy and consequent action plans based on an in-depth understanding of the market, key channels and target groups
Skills and Qualifications
- High level of English, additional languages are an advantage
- Experience with developing and executing marketing strategies and plans
- Self-driven and customer oriented individual, confident with public speaking
- Entrepreneurial and results oriented individual able to work well in a dynamic and changing business environment with natural desire to drive solutions and change
- Result oriented with excellent interpersonal skills
- Experience with international market research and analysis
- Strong project management skills
- Strong analytical skills
- Develop RFP process, response process, suppliers/partners contracts
- Team player
- Ability to travel internationally (20 %)
Education and Experience
- A Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications or business administration with a marketing focus – MBA is an advantage
- Minimum of three (3) years marketing experience
- Advantage-experience in a matrix-based organization
Position Number #04-2016
Kenes is looking for a highly motivated Planner-Researcher to support the Market Development Team. The Planner-Researcher will be responsible for providing strategic level informational and consultative support to decision makers regarding planned future products and initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Demonstrating a comprehensive understanding of the company’s mission, services on offer, business initiatives, and competitive landscape as well as the customer views and any legal liabilities
- Adding up to a strategic-level awareness necessary for providing focused and clear guidance for brand activities
- Familiarity with a diverse range of research methodologies, and ability to match them to projects accordingly and to manage their execution and delivery, utilizing in-house and external resources
- Post-research – ability to draw conclusions from the research and provide a holistic overview across disciplines leading to concrete recommendations
Skills and Qualifications
- Excellent research and summary reporting capabilities
- Good analytical and numerical skills
- Accuracy and attention to detail
- Self-motivated initiator
- Excellent organizational skills
- Business awareness
- Creativity and problem-solving skills
- Customer service-oriented
- Strong collaboration skills and a good team player
Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in marketing/ business/ social sciences, or a related field – an advantage
- Prior experience in research, statistical data, analysis and interview techniques – an advantage
- Specify market research, analytics, and experience with preparation of RFPs for research projects
- International experience in a global work environment
- English level – native or mother tongue, other European languages – an advantage
- Excellent computer skills, including all Microsoft Office programs
Position Number #01-2016
Kenes is looking for a highly motivated Social Media Intern to manage our client’s social media channels, including Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and YouTube, from strategy to execution and content creation. Position is part-time – 3 days p/week.
Responsibilities
- Maintain all aspects of daily community engagement for our clients’ social media channels
- Collaborate with marketing/project managers to develop strategic social media plans for our clients
- Execute highly effective social media campaigns within the limits of the scope of service, including posting, monitoring and replying to user interactions, taking initiative in building client brands
- Participate in online conversations and reply to comments related to our content/brand
- Identify and resolve client issues quickly and professionally, using appropriate internal resources, as required
- Respond quickly to changes in social networks and adapt to capitalize on new opportunities
- Generate internal/external activity reports for clients
- Lead workshops for clients on social media
Requirements
- Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced, high stress environment, ensuring follow-through on all tasks/projects
- Strong collaboration skills and a good team player
- Experience generating ideas, self-motivated and ability to work independently
- Excellent communication skills – oral and written
- Organizational and Internet research skills
Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in communications, marketing, advertising or related field
- Minimum 1-2 years’ professional experience with social media
- Thorough understanding of and expert-level user of all social media technologies
- Excellent social media conversation skills with history of active participation on behalf of an organization/brand
- Experience building online interaction between members of a large-scale online community
- English – native or mother tongue level, written and spoken
- Excellent computer skills, including all Microsoft Office programs
- Basic understanding of Photoshop or similar, basic HTML






