Director, Event Strategy & Experience

Humana Inc; Honolulu (HI); Remote; USD 150,000 - 206,000; Full time

Job summary

Humana Inc is seeking a Director, Event Strategy & Experience to own the enterprise event portfolio and guide a team of experienced planners. You will translate business objectives into high-impact executive experiences while maintaining governance, contracts, and disciplined financial oversight.

You will partner with senior leaders to deliver leadership meetings, conferences, and customer events, while managing budgets and cross-functional governance to achieve strong ROI across the portfolio.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive experience in corporate events or related fields with large programs.
• Experience leading enterprise-scale events and executive experiences, incl. C-suite meetings.
• Strong financial and operational management with ownership of budgets and ROI.
• Experience in a Fortune 500 environment or with an agency partner.

Responsibilities

• Partner with senior executives to translate priorities into leadership meetings and events.
• Own end-to-end event execution across strategy, planning, production, logistics, and onsite delivery.
• Build and lead a high-performing team of event planners with clear vision and standards.
• Manage significant event budgets, forecasts, and expenditures; optimize investments.
• Lead cross-functional governance with communications, legal, procurement, IT, and others.
• Oversee strategic agencies, vendors, venues, and production partners; negotiate contracts.
• Establish analytics to measure event effectiveness, ROI, and continuous improvement.
• Ensure on-brand, risk-managed experiences with contingency planning.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Stakeholder management

Event strategy

Budget management

Vendor management

Contract negotiation

Team leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

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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.

Key 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, 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.

Attributes for Success

• 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.

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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

Additional Information

• 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 Humana's offices for training or meetings may be required.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Pay Range

The compensation range below reflects a good faith estimate of starting base pay for full time (40 hours per week) employment at the time of posting. The pay range may be higher or lower based on geographic location and individual pay will vary based on demonstrated job related skills, knowledge, experience, education, certifications, etc.

$150,000 - $206,300 per year

This job is eligible for a bonus incentive plan. This incentive opportunity is based upon company and/or individual performance.

Description of Benefits

Humana, Inc. and its affiliated subsidiaries (collectively, "Humana") offers competitive benefits that support whole-person well-being. Associate benefits are designed to encourage personal wellness and smart healthcare decisions for you and your family while also knowing your life extends outside of work. Among our benefits, Humana provides medical, dental and vision benefits, 401(k) retirement savings plan, time off (including paid time off, company and personal holidays, paid parental and caregiver leave), short-term and long-term disability, life insurance and many other opportunities.

Application Deadline

10-04-2026

About us

About Humana: Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is a leading U.S. healthcare company. Through our Humana insurance services and our CenterWell healthcare services, we make it easier for the millions of people we serve to achieve their best health - delivering the care and service they need, when they need it. These efforts are leading to a better quality of life for people with Medicare and Medicaid, families, individuals, military service personnel, and communities at large. Learn more about what we offer atHumana.comand atCenterWell.com.

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