Senior Marketing Manager - Events

Highspring
  • Nashville, Tennessee
    13 days ago

    Job Description

    Role Overview

    We’re looking for a Senior Marketing Manager, Events to fully own and evolve our global events program and team—from strategy and planning through execution, measurement, and optimization. This is a high‑visibility role with broad exposure to senior leadership, business unit leaders, and field teams across the organization.

    This role is ideal for a strategic, detail‑oriented marketer who thrives in complexity, enjoys building scalable programs, and can manage a team of events specialists. You’ll act as the quarterback of our events engine, ensuring events are not one‑off moments, but a repeatable, revenue‑driving system.

    Your Impact:

    People Management 

    • Lead, mentor, and empower a high-performing events team
    • Build and manage a skilled events team, fostering an environment of growth, collaboration, and accountability
    • Set clear goals and expectations, providing ongoing feedback and coaching to develop talent and maximize team performance
    • Champion diversity, inclusion, and professional development—ensuring all team members are empowered to contribute and advance
    • Lead by example in operational excellence, strategic thinking, and results orientation, inspiring the team to achieve ambitious business goals

    Global Events Program Ownership

    • Designing and executing a balanced event portfolio across webinars, CPE programs, executive dinners, roundtables, conferences, and flagship in‑person experiences
    • Translating business goals (pipeline, revenue, brand, community) into a clear annual events roadmap
    • Applying and evolving our tiered event model to ensure the right level of support, consistency, and scalability across markets
    • Serving as the single point of accountability for event outcomes, timelines, and quality
    • Advise on where events fit into the buyer journey and how they support pipeline creation and account growth
    • Assist in guiding stakeholders toward the right event formats based on audience, objectives, and budget
    • Balance global consistency with local flexibility—empowering offices while protecting brand, data integrity, and ROI

    Operational Excellence and Execution 

    • Manages and optimizes the company’s presence at industry events, trade shows, webinars, and partner-hosted activations to ensure brand consistency, audience engagement, and alignment with broader marketing goals
    • Develops and executes multi-channel event promotion strategies across email, digital, and partner platforms to drive awareness, registrations, and ROI
    • Enables field by coordinating materials for sales-led attendee outreach
    • Own and continuously improve event planning workflows, timelines, and playbooks
    • Ensure consistent use of tools and platforms (registration, email automation, check‑in, reporting)
    • Partner with creative, content, digital, and operations teams to deliver cohesive event experiences
    • Proactively identify risks, bottlenecks, and opportunities to improve speed and quality
    • Manage event-related web pages, content, and registration workflows to ensure alignment with campaign goals and seamless audience experience

    Measurement, Reporting & ROI

    • Define and track core event KPIs: registrations, attendance, engagement, pipeline influenced, revenue, and ROI
    • Partner with marketing analytics to maintain clean, standardized reporting
    • Deliver executive‑ready insights that highlight what’s working, what’s not, and where to invest next
    • Use data to optimize event mix, formats, budgets, and follow‑up strategies

    Your Experience:

    • Action Oriented- Embraces new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm
    • Collaborative- Partners and connects with others to achieve shared goals or objectives, seeking input and inspiring others to value the same, building trust with each collaborative interaction
    • Growth Mindset- Embraces challenges, seeks out inspiration in others, and is open to continuously improving and developing skills and business knowledge
    • Learning Agility- Demonstrates courage and a willingness to learn by proactively accepting or requesting participation with unfamiliar tasks or projects
    • Planning Forethought and Alignment- Plans and prioritizes work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals
    • Results Oriented- Consistently achieves results, even under tough circumstances
    • Strategic Mindset- Looks from above to provide objective perspectives to represent strategies creating lasting business value
    • Team mentorship - Encourage open communication and transparency within the team to foster trust and resolve conflicts efficiently.

     Minimum Qualifications

    • Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing or related field.
    • 6-8 years of experience in B2B marketing, with significant ownership of events or experiential programs
    • Proven track record managing both organic and paid event strategies and execution.
    • Deep understanding of social media platform best practices, algorithms, and audience engagement tactics.
    • Experience with employee advocacy platforms (e.g., DSMN8) and executive thought leadership.
    • Experience with people management is preferred, but not required.
    • Strong writing and storytelling skills with the ability to tailor messages to different audiences.
    • Analytical mindset with the ability to pull insights from data and make recommendations.
    • Content Planning & Creation – Strong editorial and visual eye with the ability to collaborate on or oversee the creation of compelling content.
    • Campaign Management – Experience running targeted campaigns with clear KPIs and conversion goals.
    • Must be willing to travel at least 25% for events

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    Numbers & Facts

    LocationNashville, Tennessee
    Websitehttps://www.highspring.com/about/careers/current-openings/

    Skills

    • Algorithmsunmatched
    • Analysis Skillsunmatched
    • Best Practicesunmatched
    • Budgetingunmatched
    • Business Developmentunmatched
    • Business Skillsunmatched
    • Business-to-Business (B2B) Marketingunmatched
    • Campaignsunmatched
    • Channel Strategiesunmatched
    • Coachingunmatched
    • Communication Skillsunmatched
    • Conferencesunmatched
    • Content Developmentunmatched
    • Continuous Improvementunmatched
    • Data Qualityunmatched
    • Detail Orientedunmatched
    • Diversityunmatched
    • Email Promotionsunmatched
    • Email Softwareunmatched
    • Establish Prioritiesunmatched
    • Event Managementunmatched
    • Event Strategy Developmentunmatched
    • Information/Data Security (InfoSec)unmatched
    • Leadershipunmatched
    • Marketingunmatched
    • Mentoringunmatched
    • Operational Strategyunmatched
    • People Managementunmatched
    • Performance Managementunmatched
    • Performance Metricsunmatched
    • Promotional Strategyunmatched
    • Purchasing/Procurementunmatched
    • Quality Managementunmatched
    • Return on Investment (ROI)unmatched
    • Risk Analysisunmatched
    • Salesunmatched
    • Scalable System Developmentunmatched
    • Set Goalsunmatched
    • Social Mediaunmatched
    • Storytellingunmatched
    • Strategic Planningunmatched
    • Talent Managementunmatched
    • Team Lead/Managerunmatched
    • Team Playerunmatched
    • Thought Leadershipunmatched
    • Trade Showsunmatched
    • Webinarunmatched
    • Willing to Travelunmatched
    • Writing Skillsunmatched

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