Circana

Senior Director II, Events

Circana

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $160,000 - $180,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Accountable for the end-to-end delivery and success of enterprise meetings, conferences, and leadership events, ensuring programs meet defined business objectives, timelines, budgets, and experience standards, from intake through post-event evaluation
  • Translate business and departmental objectives into event-level strategies, establishing clear goals, execution roadmaps, and measurable success criteria that enable consistent evaluation of impact and value of core events
  • Serve as the senior operational leader during live events, making timely decisions to resolve issues, mitigate risk, and drive positive attendee experience, brand reputation, and business outcomes
  • Own venue, hotel, and event space sourcing outcomes, ensuring RFPs, site evaluations, and comparative analyses result in selections that align with program requirements, budget targets, and experience objectives
  • Leverage event industry expertise to negotiate and finalize complex event contracts with hotels, venues, and vendors, ensuring terms support execution needs, financial discipline, and risk mitigation
  • Own room block strategy and management, including pickup optimization, forecasting, adjustments, and stakeholder communications, to deliver positive budget outcomes and attendee experience
  • Be accountable for vendor performance and service quality across AV/production, transportation, staffing, catering, and ancillary services, ensuring delivery against scope, timelines, and experience standards
  • Lead and develop direct reports by setting clear objectives, prioritizing workloads, providing ongoing coaching, and holding team members accountable for execution quality and results
  • Lead cross-functional workstreams across marketing, communications, sales, product, client teams, procurement, legal, finance, and external agencies to ensure alignment from strategy through execution

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience
  • 7–10+ years of progressive experience in corporate or enterprise event management
  • CMP strongly preferred
  • Demonstrated expertise in hotel sourcing, event space evaluation, and contract negotiation and management
  • Hands-on experience with Cvent for registration, badge printing, housing block management, sourcing and reporting
  • Proven experience managing room blocks, large vendor portfolios, and six– to seven–figure event budgets
  • Experience leading and developing teams in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
  • Strong understanding of corporate procurement, legal review, and risk mitigation frameworks
  • Ability to manage multiple complex programs simultaneously while maintaining attention to detail and service excellence
  • Strategic event leadership and stakeholder partnership
  • Proven financial acumen
  • Cvent and event technology mastery
  • Team leadership and operational governance
  • Strong executive presence and decision-making under pressure
  • Travel per year approximately 40% for on-site management of events and related activities
Benefits
  • paid time off
  • medical/dental/vision insurance
  • 401(k)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools
event managementhotel sourcingevent space evaluationcontract negotiationvendor managementbudget managementroom block managementevent technology masteryfinancial acumenrisk mitigation
Soft Skills
team leadershipstrategic event leadershipstakeholder partnershipdecision-making under pressureattention to detailservice excellencecoachingcross-functional collaborationproblem-solvingorganizational skills
Certifications
Bachelor's degreeCMP