Senior Events Specialist, USCAN Field Marketing

San Diego, CA (On-site)

$83K/yr – $124K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 3 days ago

Job Summary

Own planning and execution of USCAN Field Marketing events end-to-end, coordinating vendor, registration, budgeting, and post-event analysis across a cross-functional team.

  • Lead high-volume regional events and vendor shows
  • Ensure compliance and value reporting with follow-up improvements

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • In partnership with the marketing business partners and the sales team, plan, coordinate, and execute assigned USCAN Field Marketing events, including a high volume of regional sales events and local vendor shows.
  • Maintain detailed project timelines, deliverables, and stakeholder communication to ensure assigned events are delivered on time and aligned with business objectives.
  • Prepare RFPs, source venues, support contract routing, and coordinate hotel, food and beverage, audiovisual, housing, transportation, and ancillary vendor needs for assigned complex marketing events.
  • Build and manage event registration sites, attendee communications, and reporting workflows using Cvent and related event technology platforms.
  • Track event budgets, reconcile final expenses, process invoices, and provide accurate spend reporting to support financial accountability.
  • Collect, manage, and report Transfers of Value for Health Care Providers and ensure adherence to applicable corporate, legal, and government compliance requirements.
  • Manage external speaker logistics and contracting
  • Support post-event measurement, including attendee reporting, stakeholder feedback, lead capture coordination, and recommendations for future process improvements.

Requirements

  • Typically requires 5+ years of corporate event planning experience, including budget tracking, sourcing, contracting, registration, speaker management, audiovisual coordination, and post-event reporting with a Bachelor's degree; or equivalent experience
  • Demonstrated experience supporting a high volume of customer-facing field marketing events, user group meetings, or life sciences customer programs.
  • Strong working knowledge of Cvent, including sourcing, event website development, email communications, registration management, and reporting.
  • Experience coordinating hotel and vendor contracts, banquet event orders, and on-site logistics.
  • Strong project management skills with the ability to manage multiple assigned programs, timelines, and stakeholders simultaneously.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a proactive, customer-focused approach.
  • Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively in a matrixed, highly cross-functional business environment.
  • Experience in medical device, pharmaceutical, diagnostics, healthcare, or life sciences meetings desired.
  • Experience with Transfers of Value and compliance reporting highly desired.
  • Ability to travel occasionally to support on-site event execution

Preferred

  • Experience with Transfers of Value and compliance reporting highly desired.
  • Experience in medical device, pharmaceutical, diagnostics, healthcare, or life sciences meetings desired.

Benefits

  • We offer a wide range of benefits as innovative as our work, including access to genomics sequencing, family planning, health/dental/vision, retirement benefits, and paid time off.

Illumina

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At Illumina, our goal is to apply innovative technologies and revolutionary assays to the analysis of genetic variation and function, making studies possible that were not even imaginable just a few years ago. These studies will help make the realization of personalized medicine possible. With such rapid advances in technology taking place, it is mission critical to have solutions that are not only innovative, but flexible, scalable, and complete with industry-leading support and service. As a global company that places high value on collaborative interactions, rapid delivery of solutions, and prioritizing the needs of its customers, we strive to meet this challenge. Illumina’s innovative, array-based solutions for DNA, RNA, and protein analysis serve as tools for disease research, drug development, and the development of molecular tests in the clinic.

Founded in 1998
San Diego, California, USA
9.3K employees (329 in marketing)
62% recommend to a friend
75% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$83K/yr – $124K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
247 (3% of company)
Median Career Experience
16 years
Median Tenure
5.1 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2

Funding

Total Funding
$1.3B
Last Raise
$500M
Post IPO Debt, 2 years ago

Funding History

  • Sep 2024
    Post IPO Debt • $500M
  • Jan 2023
    Post IPO Debt • $750M
  • Jan 2000
    Series Unknown • $28M

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
828K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$27.5K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
46.3%
Direct
42.2%
Referral
9.4%
Social
1.2%
Paid
0.8%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~9.3K

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