Director, Conference Logistics (Strategic Project Management)
About The Position
The Director of Conference Logistics, Strategic Project Management leads high-impact initiatives that support the priorities of the Global Logistics leadership team and strengthen the Conferences portfolio. As a visionary, hospitality-driven leader, this role partners across Conference Logistics to optimize, scale, and elevate the global conference experience through innovative, customer-centric solutions. With a deep understanding of the Conferences organization, this individual sets direction for project execution, manages a portfolio of strategic initiatives, and ensures alignment to business goals while driving efficiency, continuous improvement, and meaningful impact in a fast-paced environment.
Requirements
- Bachelors degree with focus on project management
- 10 years of project management experience
- Experience leveraging project management technology programs to record project milestones and track status updates.
- Experience of large, complex events
- Proven budget management abilities
- Management of indirect project team
- Experience of working in a complex multi layered environment with multiple stakeholders
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end projects which support the priorities of the global logistics team through effective stakeholder management, project planning and implementation.
- Identify and leverage data-driven metrics to measure the success of projects and initiatives, creating a compelling storyline and presentation for senior leaders across the organization.
- Manage Key Initiative Meetings (KIMs) to report on the progress of projects and key initiatives through defining meeting objectives, agenda and content creation, meeting preparation, meeting notes & action items and timeline management
- Collaborate with our Logistics team and Centers of Excellence to advance initiatives that harness customer insights, enabling the delivery of an elevated, innovative on-site experience that aligns with attendee needs.
- Build trusted partnerships with team members and leaders across the organization, leveraging in office time to connect with stakeholders, learn from your peers and keep a pulse on priorities across the teams
- Partner with key stakeholders and leaders across the logistics team to drive forward strategic changes, identify compelling solutions and ensure alignment of conference portfolio priorities
- Track attendee feedback responses and scores flagging trends within the data to translate the needs of our audience.
- Continuously seek opportunities to expand knowledge across the competitive market, emerging trends and all functions of the logistics team
Benefits
- world-class benefits
- highly competitive compensation
- disproportionate rewards for top performers
- generous PTO
- 401k match up to $7,200 per year
- opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
