Director, Enterprise Event Strategy & Experience — Remote

Humana Inc; Augusta (ME); Remote; USD 150,000 - 206,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision benefits

401(k) retirement savings plan

Paid time off and holidays

Disability and life insurance

Job summary

Humana Inc. is seeking a Director, Event Strategy & Experience to own the enterprise event portfolio and translate business objectives into high-impact experiences.

You will guide a team of seasoned event planners and partner with senior executives to deliver leadership meetings, conferences, and customer events. This remote role oversees substantial budgets, contract negotiations, and cross-functional governance to drive ROI while maintaining brand standards.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive experience in corporate events, experiential marketing, meetings, or a related field, including responsibility for large programs.
• 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.
• Experience working in a Fortune 500 environment or with an agency partner.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Own significant event budgets and financial performance by establishing budgets, managing forecasts and expenditures, optimizing investments, negotiating contracts.
• Lead cross-functional alignment and governance by bringing together communications, business units, executive offices, legal, procurement, accounting, IT, AV, security, and other stakeholders.
• Manage strategic agency, vendor, venue, and production partnerships by selecting and overseeing external partners, negotiating contracts, and holding agencies accountable.
• Establish performance measurement, analytics, and continuous improvement practices to evaluate event effectiveness, ROI.
• Ensure on-brand, risk-managed experiences with contingency plans for issues that may arise.

Skills

Executive leadership

Budget management

Contract negotiation

Vendor management

Job description

Humana Inc. is seeking a Director, Event Strategy & Experience to own the enterprise event portfolio and translate business objectives into high-impact experiences.

You will guide a team of seasoned event planners and partner with senior executives to deliver leadership meetings, conferences, and customer events. This remote role oversees substantial budgets, contract negotiations, and cross-functional governance to drive ROI while maintaining brand standards.