Director, Event Strategy
Colchester, Chittenden County, Vermont, 05439, USA
Listed on 2026-10-02
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The Director, Event Strategy & Experience, owns and leads the enterprise event strategy and portfolio, prioritizing programs and ensuring events directly support corporate and business unit priorities. This leader manages a team of experienced event planners, serves as a trusted advisor to senior executives, translates business objectives into high-impact experiences, establishes strong governance and operational processes, negotiates contracts, and provides disciplined financial oversight.
This role is the primary point of contact for executive events.
Partner with senior executives to translate strategic priorities into compelling leadership meetings, conferences, employee experiences, customer events, and other programs.
Lead end-to-end event execution across a complex portfolio, including strategy, concept development, planning, production, logistics, onsite execution, post-event evaluation, and continuous improvement.
Build and lead a high-performing team of event planners by setting the vision and operating model, establishing priorities and standards, developing talent, creating accountability, and ensuring strategic and operational excellence.
Own significant event budgets and financial performance by establishing budgets, managing forecasts and expenditures, optimizing investments, negotiating contracts, and ensuring disciplined financial management across the portfolio.
Lead cross-functional alignment and governance by bringing together communications, business units, executive offices, legal, procurement, accounting, IT, AV, security, and other stakeholders around shared objectives, decision rights, and execution plans.
Manage strategic agency, vendor, venue, and production partnerships by selecting and overseeing external partners, negotiating contracts, and holding agencies and suppliers accountable for quality, cost, and delivery.
Establish performance measurement, analytics, and continuous improvement practices to evaluate event effectiveness, business impact, and return on investment.
Ensure exceptional, on-brand, and risk-managed experiences by identifying potential risks and implementing contingency plans to address issues that may arise.
Proven strategic and business leadership skills, with the ability to connect an event portfolio to enterprise priorities, advise senior executives, influence cross-functional stakeholders, and make sound strategic and financial decisions.
Exceptional leadership, communication, and relationship-building skills, with a track record of building high-performing teams and effective partnerships across functions such as communications, sales, legal, procurement, accounting, and executive leadership.
Required
Skills and Qualifications
10+ years of progressive experience in corporate events, experiential marketing, meetings, or a related field, including significant responsibility for large, complex programs.
Demonstrated experience leading enterprise-scale events and executive experiences, including C-suite meetings, leadership conferences, customer events, and major corporate gatherings.
Strong financial and operational management experience, including ownership of substantial budgets, vendor and agency management, contract negotiation, risk management, and the ability to demonstrate business impact and ROI.
Experience working in a large, complex corporate environment/Fortune 500 organization or Agency Partner
This role is fully remote within the U.S. with up to 40% travel is required, depending on the number of events annually.
This role reports to the Vice President of Associate Communications.
This role will lead 4-5 direct reports.
Work at Home Requirements:
To ensure Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees' ability to work effectively, the self-provided internet service of Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees must meet the following criteria:
At minimum, a download speed of 25 Mbps and an upload speed of 10 Mbps is required; wireless, wired cable or DSL connection is suggested. In certain roles, the minimum recommended internet speed required by Humana may not be sufficient for business needs. Humana reserves the right to require associates to upgrade their internet service if necessary. Work from a dedicated space lacking ongoing interruptions to protect member PHI / HIPAA information.
Travel:
While this is a remote position, occasional travel to…
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