Director, Meetings & Events (Corporate Events & Tradeshows)

Leads teams and serves as the primary client contact for corporate meetings, conferences, leadership programmes, and trade shows, ranging from executive meetings for 75 guests to conferences and trade shows for 2,000+ attendees for Fortune 500 companies. Responsibilities span meeting production, registration, hotels, travel, transportation, food and beverage, and VIP hospitality. Working alongside agency leadership, the postholder helps strengthen planning practices, develop talent, and identify opportunities to expand client work.

• Lead the planning and execution of corporate meetings, conferences, executive events, and client experiences.
• Develop programmes that align with client objectives and deliver exceptional attendee experiences.
• Serve as the primary client lead, building trusted relationships, providing recommendations, and ensuring programme success.
• Lead cross-functional teams, establishing staffing plans, priorities, accountability, and resource allocation.
• Oversee all aspects of event delivery, including venue sourcing and contracting, attendee management, logistics, production, hospitality, transportation, registration, and on-site operations.
• Manage event budgets, forecasting, financial tracking, and post-event reconciliation.
• Partner with MKTG creative, finance, and agency leadership to coordinate resources and support programme execution, and review client deliverables, presentations, event documentation, post-event reports, and recommendations.
• Provide on-site leadership, managing teams, vendors, and stakeholders while resolving issues in real time.
• Evaluate programme performance and identify opportunities to improve processes, enhance attendee experiences, and strengthen future programmes.
• Coach, mentor, and develop team members, fostering a collaborative, high-performing culture, and support business development efforts, including client pitches, proposals, and expanding opportunities within existing accounts as they arise.

• 8+ years of demonstrated experience planning and executing corporate meetings, conferences, leadership programmes, and/or trade shows.
• Experience leading teams and managing complex programmes.
• Strong knowledge of meeting logistics, attendee experience, and coordination with content and production teams.
• Ability to manage multiple clients, complex programmes, and competing priorities from planning through on-site execution in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
• Strong people leadership skills, including team development, delegation, and accountability.
• Excellent client relationship, communication, and presentation skills.
• Resourcefulness, sound judgment, and the ability to remain calm under pressure.
• Strong budgeting, negotiation, and vendor management skills.
• Confidence, collaboration, and detail orientation, with the ability to bring structure to complex projects, advise clients, manage budgets, and help teams do their best work.
• Ability to delegate effectively, step in when needed, and keep multiple programmes moving through planning and on-site execution.
• Willingness to travel and support events outside traditional business hours, including evenings and weekends as needed.
• Willingness to assist with on-site event setup, breakdown, and operational support when required.

• Experience in an event, experiential, or marketing agency environment is strongly preferred.

• Hybrid working arrangement.

• Placement within the salary range is based on relevant experience, knowledge, skills, and other factors permitted by law.
• Eligible for discretionary incentive compensation.

• Medical, vision, and dental insurance.
• Life insurance.
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance.
• 401k.
• Flexible paid time off.
• At least 15 paid holidays per year.
• Paid sick and safe leave.
• Paid parental leave.