Corporate Events Manager

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Corporate Events Manager leading premium executive, client, and employee experiences for Prologis, a global logistics real estate company. Managing strategy, production, budgets, vendors, and onsite delivery.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead strategy, design, and delivery of a portfolio of high-touch corporate experiences for clients, brokers, executives, and employees
  • Lead assigned event programs from initial brief through post-event analysis
  • Partner with business and marketing leaders to define objectives, audiences, messaging, and success measures
  • Align stakeholders across Marketing, regional teams, executive offices, Sales, Communications, Legal, Security, and Procurement
  • Develop plans of record covering objectives, audiences, narratives, experience principles, success measures, scope, decision rights, and milestones
  • Advise stakeholders on feasibility, investment levels, and tradeoffs
  • Shape creative direction and guest journeys across invitations, destinations, venues, hospitality, travel, entertainment, gifting, branding, production, and onsite service
  • Manage end-to-end planning and delivery, including RFPs, site selection, contracts, room blocks, food and beverage, audiovisual production, transportation, registration, communications, staffing, run of show, and contingency planning
  • Develop and manage event budgets, forecasts, commitments, change orders, invoices, and final reconciliation
  • Lead venue, hotel, agency, production, destination management, and other vendor partners
  • Identify risks and develop contingency plans
  • Define success measures and evaluate attendance, engagement, relationship value, satisfaction, and business contribution
  • Lead post-event reviews and present findings, budget results, and recommendations
  • Track hospitality, travel, event technology, and production trends and contribute to team standards
  • Demonstrate financial success and comprehension of applicable real estate market/submarket

Requirements:

  • Six or more years of corporate events, experiential marketing, hospitality or related experience
  • Record of leading complex, multi-day programs for executive or client audiences
  • Ability to develop event strategy, connect programs to business and marketing priorities, and advise senior stakeholders
  • Experience designing premium guest experiences requiring high service standards, detailed travel coordination, and complex onsite production
  • Strong financial judgment, including budget development, forecasting, scenario planning, contract negotiation, expense management, and reconciliation
  • Experience leading agencies, production partners, venues, and cross-functional teams without direct reporting authority
  • Self-starter with a strong ownership mindset
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills
  • Strong project leadership, organization, attention to detail, and calm problem-solving
  • Working knowledge of hotel and venue contracts, food and beverage, audiovisual production, guest travel, registration, event technology, and onsite operations
  • Ability to travel frequently and work outside standard business hours when required by event schedules
  • Willingness and capability to leverage emerging technology, automation, and AI tools
  • Preferred: experience with destination programs, executive retreats, sports hospitality, luxury hospitality, or comparable high-touch events
  • Preferred: B2B or commercial real estate experience
  • Preferred: experience with Bizzabo or a comparable event platform, Salesforce, and Wrike
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience is preferred
  • CMP, CMM, or related industry certification is a plus

Benefits:

  • Healthcare, dental, and vision insurance for employees and eligible dependents
  • 401(k) retirement plan with a company match of 50% up to 12% of eligible compensation
  • Paid time off with a starting accrual of 22 days per year
  • Paid holidays
  • Volunteer time
  • Wellness, financial, and work/lifestyle-specific benefits
  • Generous total rewards package
  • Leadership development
  • Career advancement opportunities