Senior Manager, Enterprise Events

RBC; Toronto; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading Canadian bank is seeking a Senior Manager to represent their Meetings & Events team. The ideal candidate will oversee event planning, focusing on creating high-impact events that align with the bank's objectives. Responsibilities include managing large-scale meetings, negotiating contracts, and leading a team. Candidates should possess strong leadership and communication skills, along with expertise in budgeting and event technologies. Join a progressive team committed to delivering exceptional results in a dynamic environment.

Benefits

Comprehensive Total Rewards Program

Leadership support for development

Collaborative high-performing team environment

Opportunities for challenging work

Qualifications

• 8+ years experience in corporate meeting and event planning.
• Proven ability to lead project management and budgeting.
• Confident team collaborator with autonomous work capability.

Responsibilities

• Act as strategic partner to senior stakeholders for events.
• Manage high-profile global meetings and national events.
• Oversee budgeting and contract negotiations for events.
• Manage supplier activities during events.
• Create event-related materials and oversee budgets.

Skills

Leadership in project management

Expertise in event management

Strong communication skills

Budget management

Creative thinking

Tools

WebEx

AV production

Video webcast technology

Job description

Job Description

What is the opportunity?

In this role you will represent the Meetings & Events team as a leader and events expert, collaborating with senior partners and cross-functional colleagues to design and deliver high-impact events that strengthen RBC’s brand.

As a Senior Manager, you’ll oversee all aspects of event planning and execution for large programs – from concept to delivery. This may include acting as a meeting manager, executive producer and technical director, ensuring the seamless integration of logistics and technical elements. Your focus will be on creating professional, engaging and memorable events that support RBC’s business objectives.

If you’re passionate about driving results through strategic event management, we’d love to hear from you!

What will you do?

• Be a strategic partner to senior stakeholders across the organization, providing events advice and counsel on large scale programs for both internal and external audiences.
• Manage select high profile global meetings and national events, including sponsorship events, internal executive conferences and town hall meetings. This means aligning to key objectives, helping to develop the agenda, designing the event theme, negotiating supplier/vendor contracts and managing those relationships as well as managing appropriate logistical details.
• Manage large budgets with oversight by the business, including negotiating and executing new and renewed contract agreements. This means evaluating and negotiating rights, rates, terms & conditions, presenting opportunities, options and recommendations to senior stakeholders and managing the contracts through the legal and procurement process.
• Manage and oversee all supplier activity during events, including but not limited to event related video production, staging, facility staff and audio-visual production.
• Create event-related materials including reports, critical paths, pre-event plans, registration and proposals and oversee reconciliation of budgets and post-event summaries.
• Coach other members of the team, including managers, coordinators, interns and co-op students. Provide guidance to more junior members of the team on materials for the team’s webpage, including relevant best practices as well as event templates and tutorials.

What do you need to succeed?

• Minimum 8+ years of work experience in corporate meeting and event planning
• Proven track record of leadership in project management, event management, organization and budgeting skills
• Initiative and confidence; ability to work collaboratively in a team environment while also acting and producing autonomously, when necessary
• Strong verbal and written communications skills with customer service orientation and the ability to build relationships with senior leaders
• Fresh, innovative ideas to enhance event concepts and audience experience that align with brand standards
• High standards for quality and consistency with a flexible attitude, sound judgement and discretion
• Ability and willingness to travel for various event locations/sites
• Technical / tool knowledge in video webcast, WebEx, AV production

What’s in it for you?

We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.

• A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits and competitive compensation
• Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
• Opportunities to do challenging work

Job Details

• Address: BAY WELLINGTON TOWER, 181 BAY ST:TORONTO
• City: Toronto
• Country: Canada
• Work hours/week: 37.5
• Employment Type: Full time
• Platform: HUMAN RESOURCES & BMCC
• Job Type: Regular
• Pay Type: Salaried
• Posted Date: 2025-12-08
• Application Deadline: 2025-12-21

Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

Inclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment

At RBC, we believe an inclusive workplace that has diverse perspectives is core to our continued growth as one of the largest and most successful banks in the world. Maintaining a workplace where our employees feel supported to perform at their best, effectively collaborate, drive innovation, and grow professionally helps to bring our Purpose to life and create value for our clients and communities. RBC strives to deliver this through policies and programs intended to foster a workplace based on respect, belonging and opportunity for all.