Senior Manager, Event Planning

Make a lasting impact at Vanguard

At Vanguard, we're on a mission to take a stand for all investors, treat them fairly, and give them the best chance for investment success. As the Senior Manager of the Workplace Marketing Events team, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping how we engage with Clients and Consultant-driving memorable experiences and deepening relationships that elevates Vanguard's presence in the institutional retirement space.

Core Responsibilities

• Leads the development of the Workplace Events strategy and vision, identifies OKRs, and socializes with stakeholders for approvals.
• Hires, evaluates, and supervises crew. Provides guidance and training as necessary to develop crew. Sets performance standards, reviews performance, and makes informed compensation decisions in accordance with all applicable Human Resources policies and procedures.
• Consults with senior leaders in one or more business areas to deliver top-quality and cost-effective meetings and events in line with business objectives and Vanguard's brand strategy.
• Strategizes and manages large-scale conferences and events. Recommends and implements creative and innovative practices to continuously improve upon existing meeting and event planning processes.
• Develops and maintains broad knowledge and awareness of conference and event industry forces, competition, and trends to act as a trusted advisor throughout the conference and event strategy. Monitors conference and event financial, legal, and other regulatory considerations to ensure conference and events are aligned with the overall company strategy and market practices.
• Creates detailed plans consistent with marketing and business objectives, develops cost/benefit analyses, and leads continuous-improvement efforts. Manages business plans and budgets. Oversees metrics on performance, quality, and costs for meetings and events.
• Fosters effective communication and partnership with external partners. Liaises between internal and external partners as needed.
• Assesses team capacity and works with businesses to prioritize requests. Ensures that contingency plans are developed, tested, and updated.
• Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.

• Minimum of eight years related work experience, with at least three years of marketing or event-planning experience.
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience required. Graduate degree preferred.