Forter Senior Strategic Events Manager 

United States, New York, New York 

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About the role:

This position will be based in New York and will follow a hybrid working model.

What you’ll be doing:

• Regularly update executive leadership on event strategies, progress, and outcomes. You’ll act as the primary point of contact between the events team and senior management, facilitating clear and effective communication.
• Create and implement a comprehensive global strategy for the IMPACT brand that aligns with Forter’s overall business objectives.
• Develop and maintain a multi-year roadmap for the IMPACT brand, including goals, key milestones, and performance metrics.
• Identify key markets and opportunities for expanding the IMPACT brand through targeted events and initiatives.
• Manage end-to-end event coordination of the annual IMPACT conference, including: event messaging/marketing, contract negotiation, vendor relations, site selection, participant registration, on-site production, and post-event reporting.
• Project manage and work with internal teams (Field, Creative, Content, Product Marketing, Customer, Ops, Sales) to deliver a holistic event plan to ensure delivery against program KPIs
• Build key relationships with the GTM teams by delivering (pre and post event) enablement materials and training to ensure we maximize investments
• Develop and maintain event budgets, track expenses and manage complete financial reconciliation post-event

What you’ll need:

• 3-5 years of relevant work experience in events management
• Creative mindset, good humor and positive, can-do attitude. We prefer new ideas to a proven playbook
• You must be organized and possess exceptional communication skills
• Proven experience in community building and engagement.
• Nothing phases you; when something doesn’t go according to plan, you use it as an opportunity to learn, experiment or entertain
• Strong communication, writing, and editing skills with a customer service-oriented mindset
• Demonstrated experience in measuring and improving the ROI of event marketing investments
• Proven track record of working cross-functionally and collaboratively within a team and organization
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Flexible and solution-oriented with excellent time management skills
• A keen attention-to-detail - you care about the little details in everything that you do!
• You are abreast of industry trends and competitor events to incorporate innovative ideas into Forter's event strategy.
• Comfort with using tools including Asana, iCapture, Salesforce, and Hubspot

Trust is backed by data – Forter is a recipient of over 10 workplace and innovation awards, including:

• Great Place to Work Certification (2021, 2022, 2023)
• in NYC (2022)
• #3 on of “Most Innovative Finance Companies” (2022)
• Forbes Cloud 100 (2021, )
• SAP Pinnacle Awards “ ” (2023)
• Fintech Breakthrough Awards – Best Fraud Prevention Platform (2023)

Benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
• Matching 401K Plan
• Comprehensive and generous health insurance, including vision and dental coverage
• Home office allowance
• Generous PTO policy
• Half day Fridays

Salary Range: $120,000 - $150,000 annually + bonus + equity + benefits