Senior Events & Partnerships Manager

Kitty Hawk Kites, Inc.; Kill Devil Hills (NC); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental plan

Vision plan

401K plan

Retail discounts

Recreational discounts

Job summary

Kitty Hawk Kites is seeking an experienced Events Manager to lead planning and delivery of signature festivals, community activations, sponsorship programs, Kids Days, and in-store experiences. This role owns the event portfolio from concept to closeout, including timelines, budgets, staffing, and marketing milestones.

Reporting to the Director of Marketing, you will coordinate with Marketing, Retail, Recreation, Warehouse and Operations, ensuring events are on-brand, financially responsible,

Qualifications

• 3+ years of progressive experience in event management, hospitality, tourism, recreation, retail, or guest-experience-driven environments.
• Demonstrated experience independently planning and executing multiple events with budgets, timelines, logistics, vendors, partners, staff, and on-day problem-solving.
• Experience supervising, scheduling, training, and coaching employees, seasonal staff, interns, or volunteers.

Responsibilities

• Own the annual events calendar and event portfolio, including signature festivals, recurring programs, community activations, sponsorships, retail events, and partner-led opportunities.
• Develop event strategies, scopes, timelines and milestone schedules, budgets, staffing models, site and logistics plans, marketing requirements and success metrics.
• Maintain events boards and source-of-truth documents, establishing owners, milestones, dependencies, approvals and escalation paths.
• Lead cross-functional planning with Marketing, Creative, Social Media, Retail, Recreation, Warehouse, Operations, Finance, and leadership.
• Build and maintain relationships with sponsors, tourism partners, community organizations, municipalities, vendors and local businesses.
• Hire, train, schedule, coach and supervise the Events Coordinator, seasonal staff, interns and volunteers; provide on-site leadership during events.
• Oversee event materials, equipment, promotional inventory, transportation, storage, distribution and reconciliation; ensure safety and on-brand activation.
• Track event expenses and deliver timely post-event recaps covering attendance, engagement, sponsor fulfillment, feedback, issues and lessons learned.

Job description

Kitty Hawk Kites is seeking an experienced Events Manager to lead planning and delivery of signature festivals, community activations, sponsorship programs, Kids Days, and in-store experiences. This role owns the event portfolio from concept to closeout, including timelines, budgets, staffing, and marketing milestones.

Reporting to the Director of Marketing, you will coordinate with Marketing, Retail, Recreation, Warehouse and Operations, ensuring events are on-brand, financially responsible,