Senior Manager, Global Meeting Planning

Praxis Precision Medicines, Inc.; Boston (MA); Remote; USD 145,000 - 168,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) matching

Stock incentives

Discretionary bonus

PTO & holidays

Wellness benefits

Job summary

Praxis Precision Medicines, Inc. is seeking a Senior Manager, Congress Operations to lead planning and execution for medical and scientific congresses.

You will own the portfolio end-to-end, coordinating with Medical Affairs, Marketing, Sales, Communications, and Legal/Compliance to deliver compliant, high-impact events. You will manage a Meeting Planner, drive cross-functional execution, and ensure on-brand experiences across US and international events, with travel as needed.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience leading events or congresses in life sciences, biotech, healthcare, or a regulated environment.

Responsibilities

• Own the congress portfolio from planning to execution for medical/scientific congresses globally.
• Maintain integrated congress calendar and critical-path milestones across abstracts, housing, registration, freight, and print.
• Lead and develop the Meeting Planner; establish priorities, ownership, and on-site coverage.
• Manage relationships with meeting management, booth/exhibit, A/V, production, freight, and housing/registration vendors.
• Ensure seamless onsite execution including staffing, materials, logistics, and speaker engagement logistics.

Skills

Congress events leadership

People management

Budget & vendor management

Cross-functional collaboration

Travel readiness

Job description

Location:

This position may be performed remotely, but requires the flexibility and willingness to travel as needed.

The Opportunity

Praxis is hiring a highly motivated, detail-obsessed Senior Manager, Congress Operations, to lead our planning for medical and scientific congresses. You will own the congress portfolio end-to-end: setting plans and timelines, managing vendors and budgets, driving cross-functional execution, and ensuring a high-quality onsite experience.

You will partner closely with Medical Affairs, Marketing, Sales, Communications, and Legal / Compliance to bring our science, story, and patient mission to life in a way that is on-brand, compliant, and high impact. You will also lead and develop a Meeting Planner, establishing clear ownership and backup coverage across the portfolio.

Primary Responsibilities

• Own the congress portfolio. Lead planning and execution for medical and scientific congresses—including AAN, AES, EEC and MDS—as well as meetings in the US and abroad. Establish clear objectives, plans, owners, timelines, and measures of success.
• Drive disciplined cross-functional execution. Maintain the integrated congress calendar and critical-path milestones across abstracts, exhibits, housing, registration, freight, and print. Align stakeholders on decisions and dependencies and elevate conflicts early enough to protect delivery.
• Lead and develop the team. Manage the Meeting Planner, setting priorities, ownership, and high standards for execution. Build redundancy and onsite coverage so critical congresses never depend on a single person’s availability or knowledge.
• Own vendors and budgets. Lead relationships with meeting management, exhibit/booth, A/V and production, freight, and housing/registration partners. Set expectations and checkpoints, enforce lead times, hold vendors accountable for performance, and track spend against plan.
• Deliver seamless onsite execution. Oversee staffing, materials, production, logistics, and real-time troubleshooting. Support speaker engagement logistics, including travel, honoraria, and contracts, in partnership with Medical Affairs and Legal/Compliance.
• Raise the bar with every congress. Capture performance, stakeholder feedback, and lessons learned and turn them into concrete improvements for future events.
• Operate with a strong compliance mindset. Execute congress activities in partnership in accordance with applicable requirements, including the PhRMA Code, Sunshine Act/Open Payments, and fair-market-value requirements.

Qualifications And Key Success Factors

• 8+ years of experience leading events or congresses in life sciences, biotech, healthcare, or a similarly regulated environment, including direct experience with large-scale medical or scientific congresses.
• Demonstrated people-management experience, or clear readiness to lead and develop a direct report.
• Proven ownership of congress budgets and third-party vendors, including scope, timelines, performance accountability, and escalation.
• Exceptional planning and organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple complex workstreams without losing the details that matter.
• Strong judgment and ownership—you anticipate issues, raise them early, and solve problems rather than waiting for direction.
• Clear, direct communicator who works effectively across functions, geographies, and time zones.
• Comfortable moving quickly as priorities change while maintaining a high bar for quality and execution.
• Knowledge of relevant industry compliance requirements is a plus.
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally around the congress calendar.
• The physical and mental requirements of our roles include but are not limited to regular use of a computer, devices or other office equipment, clear communication, and occasional movement. You'll need comfort with screen work, basic hand coordination, and focus. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these functions.

Compensation & Benefits

At Praxis, we believe that taking care of our people (and their people) is important, so we provide a world class benefits package to help you thrive. This includes 99% of the premium paid for medical, dental and vision plans. We also provide company-paid life insurance, AD&D, disability benefits, and voluntary plans to personalize your coverage. Thinking about the future? We match dollar-for-dollar up to 6% on eligible 401(k) contributions and sweeten the deal with long-term stock incentives and ESPP. We provide a discretionary quarterly bonus, an extremely flexible wellness benefit, generous PTO, paid holidays and company-wide shutdowns. Not to mention, you'll also be joining a phenomenal crew of colleagues who are smart, engaged and inspiring. We aim high, collaborate hard, and produce results. Let’s achieve the impossible together!

To round out our world-class total rewards package, we provide annualized base salary in the range listed below. This range reflects the base salary the Company reasonably expects to pay for the position at the time of posting. Placement within the range will be based on job-related factors, including experience, qualifications, scope of responsibilities, and demonstrated track record of delivering results in similar roles.

Annualized Base Salary: $145,000 USD - $168,000 USD

Company Overview

Praxis Precision Medicines is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company translating genetic insights into the development of therapies for central nervous system disorders characterized by neuronal imbalance. At Praxis we share a common vision of reshaping the human condition into a more freeing and fulfilled existence by developing high impact medicines for patients and families affected by and living with complex brain disorders. Our core Values of Trust, Ownership, Curiosity and Results are foundational to every aspect of our business and are exemplified by each and every one of our team members.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Guided by our core values, at Praxis Precision Medicines, Inc. we continue to DARE FOR MORE® to advance, promote, and champion diversity, equity, and inclusion by encouraging individuals to bring their authentic selves and perspectives to work each day. We are an equal opportunity employer and committed to providing opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, religious creed, color, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, genetics, military service and veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

Praxis does not accept unsolicited submissions from recruitment agencies for open positions. We ask all recruitment agencies to refrain from contacting any Praxis employee regarding any position. All unsolicited resumes submitted by recruitment agencies to any Praxis employee in any form or method will be deemed to be the property of Praxis, and Praxis explicitly reserves the right to hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruitment agency.