Corporate Event Manager

District of Columbia, USA (Remote)

$70K/yr – $75K/yrMid Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 4 days ago

Job Summary

Own and manage high‑value corporate events end‑to‑end, balancing client priorities with vendor negotiations, logistics, and budgets.

  • Lead event lifecycle planning, execution, and post-event wrap
  • Oversee vendor sourcing, RFPs, and contract management
  • Collaborate with Sourcing on location selection and budgeting

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Serve as Event Manager for Corporate clients, ability to effectively prioritize
  • Serve in a support role for other client events, as needed
  • In collaboration with Sourcing team, work with client on location RFP, solicitation, negotiations, contracting and management
  • Manager vendor solicitation, RFP process, contract negotiations and management
  • Manage comprehensive event logistics in advance, on-site, and post-conference to include site selection, room sets, audio visual, food & beverage, décor, signage, etc.
  • Manage and coordinate all vendors and staff through comprehensive event resume to include logistical facets for hotel, convention center, and applicable vendors.
  • Evaluate and maintain event budgets from creation through post-event reconciliation. Provide clients with accurate budget estimates pre-event and ensure post-event billing reflects these estimates.
  • Maintain department files and historical documentation

Requirements

  • 5-7 years of event experience
  • Experience in corporate market and multi-client environment preferred
  • Experience and understanding of how to create complex event specs
  • Creative ideation for memorable event activations
  • Experience drafting and managing event budgets
  • Travel: Approximately 20%, chiefly 4–5-day blocks of time

Preferred

  • Cvent registration, website and mobile app experience, a plus
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MCI USA

The power of people united in purpose is unstoppable.MCI is a global engagement marketing agency that creates human-centric touchpoints that unleash the power of people to deliver innovation and growth.We are firm believers in the power of building community since 1987, helping brands, associations and not-for-profit organizations solve their key people challenges through our core expertise:- Live & virtual events- Strategic & digital communications- Consulting & community solutionsWe are an independently owned agency headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, with a global presence of 60 offices in 31 countries.

Founded in 1987
McLean, Virginia, USA
326 employees (35 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$70K/yr – $75K/yr

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Corporate Event Manager

MCI USA · District of Columbia, USA · Remote