Senior Director, Events

Our growing Marketing team is looking for a Senior Director, Events to produce outstanding client experiences. You will be responsible for management of events, including budgets, agendas, onsite execution, follow-up, and final cost analysis, ensuring all activity adds value at each stage of the customer journey and reinforces Unanet's brand and industry expertise.
The ideal candidate will have experience with annual planning of overall event management, not limited to theme ideation, vendor sourcing, selection, and coordination and venue/vendor negotiations.
What You'll Do

• Management of event agencies, vendors, and suppliers to ensure delivery at the highest standard and cost efficiencies
• Lead and mentor a team of Event Managers and Specialists
• Develop relationships with our Sales team to ensure event needs are fulfilled in a strategic manner; educating stakeholders, managing expectations and ensuring marketing expertise is utilized where required
• Provide strategic input and new ideas on specific events across business lines
• Drive strategy, planning, and execution for external customer events
• Proactively create impactful team events; ensuring we're positively engaging our clients, employees and building strong relationships with our Partner Marketing organization and business partners
• Work closely with leadership in the concepting and approval of events

Your First 90 Days
In your First 30 Days: You will familiarize yourself with our Marketing Team and how it operates. You will learn about our products, the industries we support and how we support them. You will get to know and understand the strengths and opportunities of your direct team, and you will begin providing coaching and mentorship. You will ramp on our industry events calendar, our annual user group conference, and our competitive landscape.
In your First 60 Days: You will meet with and learn our external ecosystem of partners and vendors. You will dig into and evaluate the budget and our existing events calendar. You will meet with leaders from Professional Services, Product, and Sales to understand their event needs and identify areas of improvement.
In your First 90 Days: You will begin crafting our events strategy for 2023 and beyond, including evaluating contracts with venues and vendors as well as finding efficiencies and improvements to produce awe-inspiring events. You will perform a gap analysis and make recommendations to our VP, Creative Service & MarCom on what we can be doing even better as you lend your expertise in producing our next annual users group conference, "Champions."
Who You Are

• 8+ years of experience in events and marketing, preferably in B2B software
• Multi-disciplinary, end-to-end event management experience
• Excellent organizational, leadership, and communication abilities
• Ability to manage multiple, concurrent projects while remaining flexible and agile
• Comfortable with, and an advocate for, ongoing change and evolution of events
• Highly collaborative and solutions-oriented
• Confident and skilled negotiator
• Ability to be location flexible as some travel will be required

Your Differentiators

• Experience working remotely within complex organizations and across time zones
• Experience in Government Contracting (GovCon) or Architecture, Engineering & Construction (AEC) industries preferred

Our Values

• We are a Team. Employees, customers, and partners working together.
• We are Customer-Focused. Customers are the heart of everything we do.
• We are Driven. Seeking exceptional outcomes.
• We Own our Success. Every employee has a stake in our company.
• We do the right thing and have fun in the process

The salary range for this opportunity is $150,000 - $165,000 per year. You will be eligible for discretionary bonus compensation, subject to plans that may be in effect from time to time. You will further be eligible to participate in Unanet's employee benefits plans and programs. For more details on Unanet's benefits offerings, please visit https://unanet.com/employee-benefits
Unanet is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants will be considered for positions without regard to race, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws.