Matt Lydon

Work experience
Nuun Hydration
Experiential Marketing Manager | 03/2020 - Current
- Manage 84 event partnerships across the country.
- Facilitate items and services needed for the execution of events, including, but not limited to: fulfilling orders using NetSuite, creating Virtual Booths for Virtual Expos, and ensuring partner's content for social media and email engagements.
- Use innovative approaches to help each partner navigate the ever-changing look of large-scale events due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Nuun Hydration
Regional Field Marketing Manager | 05/2017 - 03/2020
- Managed, maintained, and generated new event partnerships within the Midwest, Texas, and Southern California Regions.
- Managed two full-time Field Marketing Managers and helped them to facilitate over 300 event days, reaching over 420,000 participants.
- Traveled to major national events and expos, such as the Boston Marathon, Chicago Marathon, Hot Chocolate series, and the LA Marathon.
- Facilitated and scheduled in-store demo crews that executed sampling demos at Whole Foods and REI.
- Worked cross-functionally with the design team to create bottle designs and apparel.
Decker's Brands
Customer Service Representative Supervisor/Hoka Product Specialist | 08/2016 - 04/2017
- Responsible for providing world class customer service and maintaining professional relationships with Customers, Peers, and Internal Business Partners.
- Act as a subject matter expert in all Deckers product lines (UGG, Teva, Sanuk, Hoka, Ahnu), systems, policies, and procedures.
Accomplishments
- Planned and orchestrated a virtual all-company meeting for a team of 80.
- Lead the Chicago Marathon expo team to all-time high event sales three years in a row.
- Implement new sampling technique that increased Nuun's engagement at finish line by 100%.
- Assisted operations team members by approving orders during peak periods.
- Planned Field Marketing Summer Camp for two years in a row.