Responsibilities

• Establishes and champions best practices in strategic event planning and execution and serve as a strategic advisor to firm leaders, attorneys, and business development professionals on event strategy, audience engagement, format, investment, and expected outcomes.
• Collaborates with Marketing and Client Development teams’ senior leaders to develop an event strategy that supports revenue-generation goals, including designing events for core firm focus areas and client groups.
• Partners with CMO and Director of Client Service to develop signature client experiences that strengthen the firm’s relationships.
• Partners with internal teams (marketing, digital, communications, operations, IT) to ensure event collateral, branding, registration platforms and hybrid/virtual event infrastructure are on point
• Works with the business development team to define event strategy and ensure the firm maximizes on business development and brand-building opportunities and interactions
• Oversees vendor and contractor relationship (venues, caterers, A/V, transportation, hotels, even design, etc) ensuring competitive pricing and service excellence.
• Develops and oversees annual events budgets, track expenses, reconcile invoices and collaborate with Finance
• Maintains an event calendar and integrate with broader BD/marketing calendar; ensure alignment across offices/regions.
• Develops and implements best practices, event process templates, checklists, and vendor/venue databases. Ensure consistent brand and client experience standards across offices and event formats.
• Leads, develops, and manages a sophisticated events team, including setting priorities, allocating work, coaching performance, and supporting profressional development.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree
• Minimum of ten years of related experience, including a minimum of five years of corporate event management experience, preferably in a law firm
• Knowledge of MS suite and internet research and other commonly used business applications to source event locations and destinations
• Advanced knowledge of Vuture, ON24, Zoom, EMS, and InterAction/CRM Platforms
• Demonstrated ability to communicate clearly and effectively, both orally and in writing with internal and external contacts
• Demonstrated project and team management experience
• Ability to adapt to changing priorities and maintain a productive and committed work effort, meeting deadlines and managing workload

Preferred

• CMP designation preferred.