Senior Manager, Marketing Events

WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH

You’ll join Bain’s Global Marketing team and play a critical leadership role within our Events function. Working closely with senior leaders across Marketing, Corporate Relations, Market Reputation, Brand, Digital, PR, Media, Video, and Practice Marketing, you will help shape and deliver some of Bain’s most important global events and conference activations.

In this highly collaborative role, you will partner with stakeholders across the firm to create exceptional experiences that strengthen Bain’s reputation, deepen client relationships, and support commercial objectives globally.

As Senior Manager, Marketing Events, you will serve as a senior leader within the Events team, balancing strategic oversight, operational excellence, and hands‑on event delivery. Reporting to the Senior Director, you will oversee day‑to‑day team operations, lead priority global programs, manage a team of event professionals, and drive continuous improvement across event planning and execution.

You will be responsible for delivering high‑profile global initiatives, including flagship activations such as the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting and Cannes Lions, while ensuring consistency, quality, and operational excellence across the broader event portfolio.

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of event professionals, providing clear direction, ongoing feedback, and performance management.
• Allocate event assignments across the team to balance workloads and support professional development.
• Serve as an escalation point for complex questions, challenges, and decisions.
• Lead regular team meetings to establish priorities, track progress, and ensure alignment.
• Foster a collaborative, inclusive, and high‑performing team culture.

• Lead the end‑to‑end planning and execution of priority global events and conference activations.
• Manage flagship programs including the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting (Davos) and Cannes Lions.
• Oversee event logistics including venue operations, production, hospitality, hotel room blocks, delegate management, dinners, forums, and receptions.
• Coordinate planning, execution, and on‑site delivery across multiple stakeholders and work streams.
• Anticipate and mitigate risks to ensure seamless execution.
• Develop and deliver event briefings for delegates and executive assistants.
• Ensure all events are executed to a consistently high standard and aligned with firm priorities.

• Define Bain’s approach to conference sponsor ships and evaluate opportunities based on strategic alignment, audience relevance, and commercial impact.
• Advise Bain stakeholders participating in sponsored conferences on engagement strategies and event participation.
• Manage relationships with conference organizers and commercial partners.
• Lead sponsorship negotiations in partnership with Procurement and Legal teams.
• Identify opportunities to align sponsorship investments with broader firm initiatives and partnerships.

• Maintain oversight across the event portfolio to ensure timelines, deliverables, and quality standards are met.
• Drive adoption of best practices, processes, and tools across the team.
• Develop and maintain event playbooks and continuously incorporate lessons learned.
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency and optimize event delivery.
• Support implementation and adoption of event management technologies and systems.

• Partner with the Senior Director to measure the impact and return on investment of event and conference programs.
• Develop reporting, dashboards, and insights to inform future event strategies and investment decisions.
• Collaborate with Analytics teams to integrate event data into broader firm reporting.
• Support annual planning, budgeting, and portfolio management activities.
• Establish scalable and repeatable operating models across teams and stakeholders.

• Partner closely with Corporate Relations on shared initiatives, including the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across Marketing, Brand, Digital,…