Portfolio Manager - Events

McKinsey & Company; Newark (NJ); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

McKinsey & Company is seeking a role within the Optimize Events team to lead and advise on a portfolio of client events across North America. You will collaborate with event managers, vendors, and internal stakeholders to ensure flawless execution aligned with firm objectives.

The position offers involvement ranging from hands-on project management to strategic advisory, with travel to planning site visits and events as needed.

Qualifications

• Experience in event management and program operations.
• Strong client-facing communication and stakeholder management.
• Ability to work across multiple teams and locations.

Responsibilities

• Advise on execution of a portfolio of client events, ensuring event managers and vendors align with stakeholders' vision and goals.
• Level of involvement varies from hands-on project management to high-level advisory support.
• Guide teams on collaboration with internal stakeholders, resolve issues, and oversee budgets across meetings.
• Be part of the Optimize Events team in a North American location.
• Leverage technology and experts to actualize event visions, enabling connectivity and knowledge exchange.
• Advise and lead on the execution of a portfolio of meetings.
• Work with stakeholders under a Senior Portfolio Manager to ensure flawless execution.
• Serve as primary contact for internal clients and learn their event team roles and pipelines.
• Use this knowledge to manage how event managers support operations across the portfolio with practices, offices, and groups.
• Provide creative inspiration to integrate location and firm messaging into programs.
• Foster collaboration across client events, enabling stakeholders to engage, exchange insights, and address challenges.
• Help drive progress toward regional and firm objectives and create opportunities for regional engagement.
• Travel and attend planning site visits and scheduled events as needed.

Job description

• Atlanta
• Boston
• Connecticut - Darien
• Miramar
• New Jersey
• New York City
• Philadelphia
• Tampa
• Washington DC

Do you want to do work that matters, alongside supportive leaders who will help you grow faster than you ever thought possible? Are you a creative problem-solver who is energized by challenges? You've come to the right place.

YOUR IMPACT

You will play an active strategic advisory role across all client events, ensuring that event managers and vendors responsible for program operations execute in alignment with stakeholders' event vision and goals.

Your level of involvement will vary from event to event, ranging from hands-on project management to high-level advisory support. Responsibilities include guiding teams on effective collaboration with internal stakeholders, resolving issues as they arise, and providing oversight of the budget across the portfolio of meetings.

You'll be part of our Optimize Events team in one of our locations in North America. Our Optimize Events team's purpose is to deliver a range of solutions for McKinsey's in-person meetings and events, that enable purposeful, responsible, and collaborative experiences to achieve the objectives of both McKinsey and event attendees. We harness technology and leverage our team of experts to actualize event visions, enabling connectivity and the exchange of knowledge and ideas.

You will advise and lead on the execution of a portfolio of meetings. Although the portfolio of events and/or projects may change over time as the needs of the firm evolve, your work will be initially focused on a portfolio of firm client events.

Under the leadership of a Senior Portfolio Manager, you will work closely with event stakeholders to ensure event managers may provide flawless execution of all meetings within the portfolio. You will serve as the primary point of contact for internal clients and will develop a deep understanding of their event team roles and meeting pipelines. This knowledge will enable you to efficiently manage how our event managers support operational elements across the portfolio in collaboration with practices and offices, and other key groups involved in client events across the firm.

You will be expected to support the internal stakeholders and the event managers by providing creative inspiration for integrating the event location and important firm messaging into the program (through activities, communications, branding, etc.).

Your work will play a vital role in fostering collaboration across our client events, enabling diverse stakeholders to engage, exchange insights, and work collectively to address shared business challenges. By facilitating these connections, you will help drive meaningful progress toward regional and firm objectives, while creating opportunities for impactful engagement and partnership on a regional scale.

Your work will involve travel and there is an expectation to attend key planning site visits and scheduled events as needed.

YOUR GROWTH

You are someone who thrives in a high-performance environment, bringing a growth mindset and entrepreneurial spirit to tackle meaningful challenges that have a real impact.

In return for your drive, determination, and curiosity, we'll provide the resources, mentorship, and opportunities to help you quickly broaden your expertise, grow into a well-rounded professional, and contribute to work that truly makes