Manager, Conferences (Portuguese speaking)

gartner; Stamford (CT); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Gartner, Inc. is seeking a strategic leader to head onsite branding and attendee experiences across a portfolio of global conferences and events.

You will drive the creative journey, align with the Conference Center of Excellence, and oversee branding, environmental design, and digital touchpoints. You will manage end-to-end planning, production, and on-site execution, mentor teammates, handle budgets, and partner with vendors to deliver high-quality, brand-consistent experiences for attendees

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree preferred.
• Fluent in English & Portuguese.
• 5+ years in event management, branding, or experiential/event marketing.
• Proven creative and operational leadership with team management.
• Strong event operational and project management skills.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities.
• Experience managing multiple agencies and vendors.
• Excellent people management and leadership abilities.
• Experience creating event spaces, environments, and floor plans.
• Strong time management and prioritization skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end creative journey for external conferences, overseeing branding and attendee experiences.
• Manage conference projects from concept through execution, including onsite or virtual delivery.
• Partner with stakeholders to align objectives on event experience and branding.
• Plan, produce, and implement signage, branding elements, furniture, and experiential components.
• Develop operational processes and best practices for scalable delivery across the team.
• Mentor junior team members and foster stakeholder engagement.
• Cultivate relationships with external vendors to ensure high-quality, brand-aligned solutions.
• Drive creativity, innovation, and continuous improvement in attendee experiences.

Skills

Creative leadership

Event management

Project management

Vendor management

Budget management

Multitasking

People management

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree preferred

Tools

MS Office

Google Suite

PowerPoint

Excel

Job description

As a key member of the Global Creative Journey and Branding team, this role is responsible for leading the planning, development, and execution of onsite branding and attendee experiences across a portfolio of client-facing global conferences and business unit events. The position combines strategic thinking, creative leadership, project management, and operational excellence to deliver impactful experiences that enhance the overall conference journey for attendees, clients, and prospects. This individual will collaborate closely with Conference Center of Excellence teams and internal stakeholders to ensure alignment across conference planning, branding, and experience delivery.

What you will do:

• Lead the end-to-end creative journey for external conferences, overseeing branding, environmental design, attendee experiences, and digital touchpoints across Gartner's LATAM and global conference portfolio.
• Manage conference projects from concept through execution, ensuring seamless planning, coordination, and onsite or virtual delivery of branding and experience initiatives.
• Partner with internal stakeholders to understand business objectives and provide strategic guidance on event experience, branding, and engagement opportunities.
• Project manage the planning, production, and implementation of conference signage, structures, branding elements, furniture, and experiential components in partnership with cross-functional teams and vendors.
• Support the development and implementation of operational processes, project management frameworks, and best practices to drive consistency, scalability, and efficiency across the team.
• Mentor and support junior team members, fostering professional growth, strengthening project management capabilities, and promoting effective stakeholder engagement.
• Cultivate strong relationships with external vendor partners, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, innovative, and brand-aligned solutions that meet Gartner standards.
• Drive a culture of creativity, innovation, and continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to enhance attendee experiences and optimize planning processes.
• Manage conference budgets with a high degree of accuracy, including forecasting, cost management, contract negotiations, risk identification, and resource allocation recommendations.
• Collaborate effectively across Conference Center of Excellence teams to ensure integrated planning and execution of business unit experiences that support the broader conference strategy.

What you will need:

• Bachelor's Degree preferred
• Fluent in both English & Portuguese
• 5+ Years Event Management, Branding and/or Experiential & Event Marketing Experience
• Proven creative and operational management responsibility & management of teams
• Proven event operational and project management skills
• Ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously and prioritize workload
• Management of multiple agency and vendor partners
• Effective people management skills and leadership
• Experience in creation of event spaces/environments/floor plans
• Proven and exceptional project management skills, effective management of time and prioritization
• Creative, innovative, strategic
• Strong financial management skills
• Client focused, solution oriented, and collaborative
• High sense of urgency, decisiveness, attention to detail and confidentiality
• Fully competent in Microsoft office and Google Suite, especially PowerPoint, Excel and similar in G-Suite
• Strong Oral & Written Communication Skills
• Ability to travel as needed, approx 30% domestically & internationally

Who are we?

At Gartner, Inc. (NYSE:IT), we guide the leaders who shape the world.

Our mission relies on expert analysis and bold ideas to deliver actionable, objective business and technology insights, helping enterprise leaders and their teams succeed with their mission-critical priorities.

Since our founding in 1979, we've grown to 20,000 associates globally who support over 13,000 client enterprises in ~90 countries and territories. We do important, interesting and substantive work that matters. That's why we hire associates with the intellectual curiosity, energy and drive to want to make a difference. The bar is unapologetically high. So is the impact you can have here.

What makes Gartner a great place to work?

Our vast, virtually untapped market potential offers limitless opportunities - opportunities that may not even exist right now - for you to grow professionally and flourish personally. How far you go is driven by your passion and performance.

We hire remarkable people who collaborate and win as a team. Together, our singular, unifying goal is to deliver results for our clients.

Our teams are inclusive and composed of individuals from different geographies, cultures, religions, ethnicities, races, genders, sexual orientations, abilities and generations.

We invest in great leaders who bring out the best in you and the company, enabling us to multiply our im