Director, Enterprise Meetings and Congresses

Recordati•Bridgewater, NJ

5d•$160,000 - $205,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Director, Enterprise Meetings and Congresses serves as the strategic and execution partner for congresses, customer-facing events, and internal meetings at Recordati Rare Diseases, Inc. (RRD), North America. The role works with business units to translate business objectives and meeting strategies into actionable plans and high-quality execution, providing planning expertise, infrastructure, governance, and operational capabilities. It helps business units define meeting and congress requirements, plan investments, timelines, logistics, and execution, and integrate unit plans into enterprise events such as national sales meetings, POAs, and customer-facing congresses. The Director establishes scalable and consistent planning processes to strengthen organizational alignment, customer engagement, field effectiveness, financial stewardship, and meeting effectiveness. The position manages enterprise meeting and congress strategy, governance, operations, customer engagement planning, portfolio management and investment prioritization, budget oversight, meeting technology and enablement platforms, field communications, training, and operational excellence programs. It reports to the Senior Director of Commercial Operations or designee and has no direct reports. The role is based in the Bridgewater, New Jersey office and is hybrid, with at least three days per week in the office. Travel may be required up to 20% of the time, including out-of-state travel over weekends and nights as needed. The role operates in a professional office environment and uses standard office equipment. It is largely sedentary, with frequent standing, walking, handling objects, reaching, talking, and hearing, and occasional lifting or moving of items up to 25 pounds. The employee must be able to travel by commercial air carrier, car, train, or plane and have a valid driver's license and means of transportation.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree required.
At least 12 years of progressive experience in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, healthcare, or life sciences industry, including leadership responsibility for meetings, congresses, field engagement, and event operations.
Demonstrated success developing and executing enterprise meeting and congress strategies that support commercial, medical, and organizational objectives.
Extensive experience leading national sales meetings, leadership meetings, product launch events, advisory boards, customer engagement programs, and medical congress participation.
Experience managing large, multi-million-dollar budgets, forecasting expenditures, monitoring performance, and exercising disciplined fiscal stewardship.
Strong cross-functional leadership, relationship-building, and influencing skills, with the ability to align Commercial, Medical, Finance, Compliance, Procurement, and executive leadership teams.
Hands-on leadership experience providing onsite event oversight, issue resolution, and executive support during critical meetings and congresses.
Strong analytical, communication, organizational, project management, prioritization, problem-solving, and risk management skills, with exceptional attention to detail.
Comprehensive knowledge of meeting and congress strategy, governance, planning, execution, and performance measurement.
Effective negotiation, vendor management, and relationship management skills.
Strong financial management skills, including budgeting, forecasting, expense management, investment prioritization, and fiscal stewardship.
Ability to evaluate workflows, identify improvement opportunities, and implement scalable, efficient solutions.
Knowledge of pharmaceutical industry compliance requirements, meeting regulations, and applicable corporate policies and governance standards.
Ability to travel and provide onsite leadership and support for meetings, congresses, and events as required.
Ability to travel by commercial air carrier, car, train, or plane; valid driver's license and means of transportation.
Ability to perform the stated physical demands, including occasionally lifting or moving items up to 25 pounds.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree or relevant professional certification, such as CMP, CMM, or equivalent.

Responsibilities

Support the planning, coordination, and execution of national and regional congresses, customer-facing events, and internal meetings, translating business-defined objectives and requirements into high-quality execution.
Partner with business units to execute event participation and engagement strategies that support customer reach, field effectiveness, and organizational impact across Commercial and Medical functions.
Provide onsite operational leadership during meetings and congresses, address execution issues proactively, and help ensure a consistent, high-quality participant experience aligned with business objectives.
Coordinate across Commercial, Medical, Compliance, Finance, Procurement, and external partners to support stakeholder alignment and seamless meeting and congress execution.
Support planning and management of meeting and congress investments through cost estimates, forecasting, financial tracking, reporting, and decision-making visibility.
Establish and maintain meeting and congress operational processes, controls, and standards in partnership with business units, Compliance, Finance, and Procurement.
Evaluate and optimize meeting technologies, operational workflows, and vendor partnerships to improve execution, transparency, consistency, and business value.
Support communications related to meetings, congresses, and field engagement, including operational updates, announcements, policies, tools, and best practices.
Advise Commercial, Medical, and functional leaders on translating business-defined objectives, engagement strategies, and investment decisions into effective execution.
Support field-facing meeting technology, communications, and enablement processes, providing operational infrastructure for planning, execution, attendee engagement, and post-event follow-up.
Promote continuous improvement and collaboration through knowledge sharing, performance feedback, best-practice dissemination, and cross-functional partnership.