Remote Leader, Enterprise Event Strategy & Experience

Humana Inc; Trenton (NJ); Remote; USD 150,000 - 206,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus incentive plan

Job summary

Humana Inc. seeks a Director, Event Strategy & Experience to own the enterprise event strategy, lead a team of event planners, and translate business objectives into high-impact experiences for executives and stakeholders.

You will manage budgets, governance, vendor partnerships, risk management, and post-event evaluation, ensuring on-brand, financially disciplined delivery across leadership meetings, conferences, and customer events.

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.

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.

Job description

Humana Inc. seeks a Director, Event Strategy & Experience to own the enterprise event strategy, lead a team of event planners, and translate business objectives into high-impact experiences for executives and stakeholders.

You will manage budgets, governance, vendor partnerships, risk management, and post-event evaluation, ensuring on-brand, financially disciplined delivery across leadership meetings, conferences, and customer events.