Lead Director, Corporate Events

We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time.

Position Summary

The Lead Director of Corporate Events will be accountable for ensuring strategic and operational alignment of all meetings and conferences, and other internal and external events with the overall strategy with a primary focus on CVS Health's B2B/B2C business segments.

This role will develop an annual calendar, ensure Corporate Event assets foster business growth, manage overall budgets on behalf of business partners with a focus on increasing cost savings and efficiencies, and implementing KPI to measure our efforts. The candidate also will drive a disciplined and consistent customer experience, while measuring ROI.

Job Description

• Lead a team of 10 managers
• Strategically work with internal business partners across the Enterprise to understand, facilitate and support their goals and objectives while proactively and effectively integrating events into business plans that help grow our business and achieve desired outcomes.
• Collaborate with business leaders - with a particular focus on B2B/B2C events strategy - to deeply understand business strategies, develop an annual strategy and help drive and manage events  
• Create and enhance use of accurate and actionable analytics and reporting to support decision-making.
• Identify operational challenges and develop solution-based strategies/processes
• Collaborate with cross functional teams such as legal, IT, HR, and marketing to continue to implement operational efficiencies and reduce costs
• Partner with external agencies, vendors and works with cross-functional internal teams; creative services, marketing operations to develop and successfully execute programs.
• Ensure compliance policy and procedures are followed, completes all required approvals and processes.
• Lead internal business partners and teams to create compelling agendas, customer and employee engagement and influence overall design, ensuring consistent enterprise best practices are leveraged for some of the enterprise’s largest events
• Remain current and updated on industry trends in event management and integrates them into the design of the event, when applicable.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum 7-10 years of meeting management experience with internal and external customers.
• 7-10 years of leadership experience
• Cvent expertise (RFP, website development, overall management, communications, reporting)
• Ability to work strategically and effectively with complex clients with evolving business needs, using professional judgement to challenge thinking or behavior constructively when appropriate.
• Must be knowledgeable of Microsoft Suite. Powerpoint skills should be intermediate to advanced.

Travel required:

This position will require approximately 35% travel including weekends. Must be able to carry and lift heavy objects up to 35 lbs. Must have a valid driver’s license to rent cars.

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree preferred
• CMP certificate, preferred
• Cvent Certification, preferred

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:

This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls.  The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors.  This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above.  This position also includes an award target in the company’s equity award program. 
 

Our people fuel our future. Our teams reflect the customers, patients, members and communities we serve and we are committed to fostering a workplace where every colleague feels valued and that they belong.

Great benefits for great people

We take pride in our comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits – investing in the physical, emotional and financial wellness of our colleagues and their families to help them be the healthiest they can be. In addition to our competitive wages, our great benefits include:

• Affordable medical plan options, a 401(k) plan (including matching company contributions), and an employee stock purchase plan.

• No-cost programs for all colleagues including wellness screenings, tobacco cessation and weight management programs, confidential counseling and financial coaching.

• Benefit solutions that address the different needs and preferences of our colleagues including paid time off, flexible work schedules, family leave, dependent care resources, colleague assistance programs, tuition assistance, retiree medical access and many other benefits depending on eligibility.

For more information, visit https://jobs.cvshealth.com/us/en/benefits

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.