Director, Events & Experiences
Dun & Bradstreet
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Jacksonville • Florida • United States
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About the role
- Lead D&B’s enterprise-wide event strategy, planning, and execution to advance business objectives, elevate brand perception, and deepen client engagement.
- Amplify the brand through high impact experiential programs including immersive brand activations, integrated event marketing, standout customer experiences, team member moments, and strategic sponsorships aligned to commercial priorities.
- Lead a geographically dispersed team, fostering alignment, collaboration, and consistent delivery across priority markets.
- Champion strong cross functional partnership with marketing peers, business leaders, and senior stakeholders in different time-zones to translate priorities into experiential and sponsorship strategies with measurable business outcomes.
- Concept, refine, and deliver innovative event programs that consistently raise the bar, strengthen relationships with clients and partners, and accelerate commercial growth.
- Manage the global events budget, including forecasting, vendor negotiations, cost optimization, and reconciliation in line with internal policies.
- Lead the successful execution of proprietary and third-party events and sponsorships across the organization’s portfolio, overseeing agenda and content development, production and vendor management, contracting and financial oversight, logistics, food and beverage, AV, and post event reporting and measurement.
Requirements
- 10 or more years of related experience in event marketing, experiential programs, or event operations within a B2B or fast paced environment.
- At least three years of prior leadership experience across multiple region and ability to manage a results-driven team.
- Hands-on experience delivering successful, ROI driven events across formats and regions, including planning, programming, sponsorships, and execution.
- Demonstrable strategic and creative thinking skills, effective decision-making skills.
- Superior collaboration skills, team-oriented with ability to manage multiple projects and prioritize.
- Excellent verbal, presentation and written communications skills, proficiency in MS Office.
- Ability to rapidly pivot from one project to the next, work well under pressure and manage deadlines.
- Strong cross-cultural leadership skills and ability to influence global stakeholders.
- Show an ownership mindset in everything you do; be a problem solver, be curious and be inspired to take action, be proactive, seek ways to collaborate and connect with people and teams in support of driving success.
- Continuous growth mindset, keep learning through social experiences and relationships with stakeholders, experts, colleagues and mentors as well as widen and broaden your competencies through structural courses and programs.
- Where applicable, fluency in English and languages relevant to the working market.
Benefits
- Generous paid time off in your first year, increasing with tenure.
- Up to 16 weeks 100% paid parental leave after one year of employment.
- Paid sick time to care for yourself or family members.
- Education assistance and extensive training resources.
- Do Good Program: Paid volunteer days & donation matching.
- Competitive 401k with company matching.
- Health & wellness benefits, including discounted Wellhub membership rates.
- Medical, dental & vision insurance for you, spouse/partner & dependents.
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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
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