Manager, Conventions and Events

Azurity Pharmaceuticals - US; Raleigh (NC); Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Health coverage

401K match

Vacation days

Tuition reimbursement

Recognition program

Job summary

Azurity Pharmaceuticals seeks a Manager, Conventions and Events to plan, coordinate, and execute its national and regional conference presence. You will manage day-to-day conference operations, vendor coordination, internal tracking, and budget documentation across a high-volume calendar.

This role sits within Corporate Communications and works closely with brand marketing, sales leadership, Medical Affairs, Compliance, agency partners, interns, and conference vendors to keep complex workstreams

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in event planning, conference operations, project coordination, marketing operations.
• Ability to manage multiple events, deadlines, vendors, and details at the same time.
• Proficiency with Microsoft 365 tools, including Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, Excel.
• Experience coordinating vendors, contracts, invoices, budgets, or cross-functional project details.
• Excellent organization, follow-through, and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Manage booth reservations, exhibitor registrations, floor plan reviews, conference portal requirements, and related deadlines.
• Coordinate with vendors on booth setup, storage, shipping, print materials, branded assets, estimates, and statements of work.
• Support hotel blocks, attendee logistics, travel details, and onsite planning needs.
• Serve as a day-to-day contact for conference vendors, exhibitor services teams, and meeting planners.
• Coordinate ancillary events such as meeting rooms, product theaters, private events, and related logistics.
• Maintain the Conference Tracker as the primary source of truth for deadlines, logistics, approvals, and status updates.
• Create and maintain detailed conference briefs for priority events.
• Support the distribution and tracking of conference-related work across internal team members and interns.
• Keep SharePoint folders, Outlook conference folders, contracts, invoices, portal documents, creative files, and shipping details organized by event.
• Submit and track conference contracts through Ironclad or the appropriate legal review process.

Skills

Event planning

Project coordination

Vendor management

Microsoft 365

Communication

Attention to detail

Tools

Outlook

Teams

SharePoint

Excel

Job description

Azurity Pharmaceuticals is a privately held, specialty pharmaceutical company that focuses on innovative products that meet the needs of underserved patients. As an industry leader in providing unique, accessible, and high-quality medications, Azurity leverages its integrated capabilities and vast partner network to continually expand its broad commercial product portfolio and robust late-stage pipeline. The company’s patient-centric products span the cardiovascular, neurology, endocrinology, gastro-intestinal, institutional, and orphan markets, and have benefited millions of patients. For more information, visitwww.azurity.com .

Azurity Pharmaceuticals is proud to be an inclusive workplace and an Equal Opportunity Employer. Azurity's success is attributable to our incredibly talented, dedicated team that focuses on benefiting the lives of patients by bringing the best science and commitment to quality into everything that we do. We seek highly motivated individuals with the dedication, integrity, and creative spirit needed to thrive in our organization.

About the Role

The Manager, Conventions and Events supports the planning, coordination, and execution of Azurity’s national and regional conference presence. This role manages day-to-day conference operations, vendor coordination, internal tracking, compliance follow-through, and budget documentation across a high-vol-ume conference calendar. The ideal candidate is highly organized, detail-oriented, comfortable managing multiple deadlines, and able to keep complex workstreams moving in partnership with internal stakehold-ers and external vendors. This role sits within Corporate Communications and works closely with brand marketing, sales leadership, Medical Affairs, Compliance, agency partners, interns, and conference ven-dors.

Key Responsibilities

Conference Operations & Logistics

• Manage booth reservations, exhibitor registrations, floor plan reviews, conference portal requirements, and related deadlines.


• Coordinate with vendors on booth setup, storage, shipping, print materials, branded assets, estimates, and statements of work.


• Support hotel blocks, attendee logistics, travel details, and onsite planning needs.


• Serve as a day-to-day contact for conference vendors, exhibitor services teams, and meeting planners.


• Coordinate ancillary events such as meeting rooms, product theaters, private events, and related logis-tics.

Conference Tracker & Systems Management

• Maintain the Conference Tracker as the primary source of truth for deadlines, logistics, approvals, and status updates.


• Create and maintain detailed conference briefs for priority events.


• Support the distribution and tracking of conference-related work across internal team members and in-terns.


• Keep SharePoint folders, Outlook conference folders, contracts, invoices, portal documents, creative files, and shipping details organized by event.

Compliance & Approval Process

• Manage conference approval steps and help ensure required documentation is submitted accurately and on time.


• Track compliance portal submissions, approval status, and required follow-up.


• Coordinate COI requests, HCP reporting needs, and other applicable compliance requirements.


• Submit and track conference contracts through Ironclad or the appropriate legal review process.

Budget & Financial Management

• Track conference spend across brand budgets and shared cost centers.


• Maintain cost splits, actuals, and budget notes for shared conferences.


• Support invoice tracking, payment status follow-up, and budget documentation for sponsorships, booth services, AV, food and beverage, shipping, and related costs.

Pre-Conference & Post-Conference Execution

• Send attendee communications, including save-the-dates, travel guidance, agendas, and logistics re-minders.


• Coordinate pre-conference logistics calls and capture questions, expectations, schedules, and next steps.


• Support pre-conference engagement efforts, including email campaigns, LinkedIn content coordination, attendee targeting, and teaser communications.


• Manage lead retrieval orders, app access, login details, and pickup instructions.


• Support post-conference wrap-up, including lead status, follow-ups, lessons learned, and next-year rec-ommendations.

Strategy & Process Improvement

• Support a proactive, ROI-focused conference model by keeping planning, execution, and follow-up or-ganized.


• dentify opportunities to simplify workflows, reduce missed deadlines, and improve team visibility.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in event planning, conference operations, project coordination, marketing opera-tions, preferably in the pharmaceutical or healthcare field,


• Ability to manage multiple events, deadlines, vendors, and details at the same time.


• Proficiency with Microsoft 365 tools, including Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, Excel, and related track-ing or collaboration platforms.


• Experience coordinating vendors, contracts, invoices, budgets, or cross-functional project details.


• Excellent organization, follow-through, and attention to detail.


• Comfortable working with tight timelines, shifting priorities, and last-minute changes. · Clear written and verbal communication skills.


• Experience supporting email campaigns, CRM tools, or pre- and post-event engagement.

Physical & Mental Requirements:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Must be able to sit for long periods of time


• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand; walk; sit; talk and/or hear


• May occasionally climb stairs and/or ride elevators


• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds


• Employee must be able to manipulate keyboard, operate a telephone and hand-held devices


• Other miscellaneous job duties as required

Benefits We Offer:

• Unlock Your Earning Potential: Join our team and be rewarded with a competitive compensation package, including an annual bonus based on company performance, that recognizes your exceptional talent.
  
  
  
  • Sales - In lieu of annual bonuses, we offer an Incentive compensation program that allows you to earn more - even over plan.
  
  
  • Fuel Your Success: *Sales Only* - We understand the value of your hard work and provide a car reimbursement program and gas card for both business and personal use as part of our commitment to supporting you.
  
  
  
  


• Comprehensive Health Coverage: We value your well-being and offer excellent medical, dental, vision, and prescription coverage to ensure you and your family are always taken care of.


• Flexibility for Your Lifestyle: Achieve work-life balance with our hybrid work model, allowing you to work two days from home and three days in the office. *Excludes Sales, Manufacturing, and some Operations positions*


• Invest in Your Future: Our Retirement Savings Plan (401K) is designed to help you secure a comfortable retirement by matching dollar for dollar up to 5%.


• Time Off That Counts: Take advantage of our generous time off policy, which offers up to 15 vacation days annually + rollover (up to 40 hours) as well as five sick/wellness days. For new employees, vacation accrual will be prorated based on your start date.


• Meaningful Time with Your Loved Ones: We close between Christmas and New Year’s to give you an extra week off to spend quality time with your family and recharge.


• Enjoy the Holidays: Over the course of the year, Azurity recognizes 13 holidays.


• Invest in Your Education: We support your professional growth with tuition reimbursement for undergraduate and graduate level courses or certifications.


• Recognize and Be Recognized: Our Azurity High Five peer recognition platform allows you to celebrate your colleagues' accomplishments and receive recognition for your own outstanding work.

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