Description POSITION SUMMARY: The Event Strategist is responsible for helping Milliman maximize the impact and enhance the value of our internal and external events. Combining a strong creative vision, excellent marketing skills, and extensive experience planning and executing successful events, this person will collaborate with a wide range of colleagues and stakeholders to elevate the quality of high-impact client events, multi-day internal forums, webinars, and sponsored events and tradeshows. The ideal candidate will possess strong strategic planning abilities, excellent communication and interpersonal skills, marketing savvy, and the confidence to lead discussions with senior leaders, including the C-suite. RESPONSIBILITIES: Partner with practices and stakeholders to help define and realize the business objectives of their events. Develop comprehensive event strategies that align with the company's brand and mission and inform decision-making at every phase of the event lifecycle. Research and identify relevant industry events, conferences, trade shows, and other opportunities to interact with prospects and promote the brand. Assist the marketing team in creating and implementing event marketing plans designed to engage audiences, generate leads, and elevate the Milliman brand. Evaluate the success of each event across a range of predefined criteria, report back to event sponsors, and incorporate learnings into future event strategies. Work with marketing managers to ensure that leads are effectively captured and reported back to event stakeholders; collaborate with meeting planners to ensure metrics for internal events are captured, analyzed, and turned into actionable reports. Design an outcomes-based event strategy, including critical event marketing metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs). Develop a repeatable reporting process for providing post-event assessments to key stakeholders, as well as a process for providing quarterly event updates to the Milliman C-suite and Board of Directors. Stay updated on industry trends and innovations. SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED: Bachelor's degree, preferably in communications, business, marketing, or related field The ideal candidate must have minimum of 6+ years of experience working on events or marketing strategy. The ideal candidate must be an SME in developing and deploying event strategy. The ideal candidate must have a comprehensive knowledge of event planning and strategy, including contracting, negotiating, analytics, event technology platforms, and digital marketing. The ideal candidate must have experience with a variety of event mediums (sponsorships, virtual and in-person meetings, webinars, and client events) Must have exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, professionalism, and the ability to work collaboratively with multiple stakeholders. Must be extremely organized, strong attention to detail, and the highest standards or service-delivery and audience/participant engagement. Must have excellent judgement, and creative problem-solving skills, including contract negotiation, dispute resolution, and contingency planning. Must have experience working in a fast-paced and highly cross-functional global organization. Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and meet deadlines. Must have experience with project management tools, Microsoft Dynamics, Cvent, and virtual event platforms. Must have outstanding written and verbal communication skills. Must have willingness to travel. LOCATION: This is a remote role. This job posting is expected to close on March 30th, 2024 COMPENSATION: The salary range for this role is $72,000 to $142,000, depending on a combination of factors, including, but not limited to, education, relevant work experience, qualifications, skills, certifications, location, etc. <