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Senior Marketing Manager - Events

MorganFranklin Consulting LLC, atlanta, ga, United States


Role Overview

We're looking for a Senior Marketing Manager, Events to fully own and evolve our global events program and team—from strategy and planning through execution, measurement, and optimization. This is a high‑visibility role with broad exposure to senior leadership, business unit leaders, and field teams across the organization.

This role is ideal for a strategic, detail‑oriented marketer who thrives in complexity, enjoys building scalable programs, and can manage a team of events specialists. You'll act as the quarterback of our events engine, ensuring events are not one‑off moments, but a repeatable, revenue‑driving system.

Your Impact

People management

  • Lead, mentor, and empower a high‑performing events team
  • Build and manage a skilled events team, fostering an environment of growth, collaboration, and accountability
  • Set clear goals and expectations, providing ongoing feedback and coaching to develop talent and maximize team performance
  • Champion diversity, inclusion, and professional development—ensuring all team members are empowered to contribute and advance
  • Lead by example in operational excellence, strategic thinking, and results orientation, inspiring the team to achieve ambitious business goals

Global Events Program Ownership

  • Designing and executing a balanced event portfolio across webinars, CPE programs, executive dinners, roundtables, conferences, and flagship in‑person experiences
  • Translating business goals (pipeline, revenue, brand, community) into a clear annual events roadmap
  • Applying and evolving our tiered event model to ensure the right level of support, consistency, and scalability across markets
  • Serving as the single point of accountability for event outcomes, timelines, and quality
  • Advise on where events fit into the buyer journey and how they support pipeline creation and account growth
  • Assist in guiding stakeholders toward the right event formats based on audience, objectives, and budget
  • Balance global consistency with local flexibility—empowering offices while protecting brand, data integrity, and ROI

Operational excellence and execution

  • Manages and optimizes the company's presence at industry events, trade shows, webinars, and partner‑hosted activations to ensure brand consistency, audience engagement, and alignment with broader marketing goals
  • Develops and executes multi‑channel event promotion strategies across email, digital, and partner platforms to drive awareness, registrations, and ROI
  • Enables field by coordinating materials for sales‑led attendee outreach
  • Own and continuously improve event planning workflows, timelines, and playbooks
  • Ensure consistent use of tools and platforms (registration, email automation, check‑in, reporting)
  • Partner with creative, content, digital, and operations teams to deliver cohesive event experiences
  • Proactively identify risks, bottlenecks, and opportunities to improve speed and quality
  • Manage event‑related web pages, content, and registration workflows to ensure alignment with campaign goals and seamless audience experience

Measurement, Reporting & ROI

  • Define and track core event KPIs: registrations, attendance, engagement, pipeline influenced, revenue, and ROI
  • Partner with marketing analytics to maintain clean, standardized reporting
  • Deliver executive‑ready insights that highlight what's working, what's not, and where to invest next
  • Use data to optimize event mix, formats, budgets, and follow‑up strategies

Your Experience

  • Action Oriented — Embraces new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm
  • Collaborative — Partners and connects with others to achieve shared goals or objectives, seeking input and inspiring others to value the same, building trust with each collaborative interaction
  • Growth Mindset — Embraces challenges, seeks out inspiration in others, and is open to continuously improving and developing skills and business knowledge
  • Learning Agility — Demonstrates courage and a willingness to learn by proactively accepting or requesting participation with unfamiliar tasks or projects
  • Planning Forethought and Alignment — Plans and prioritizes work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals
  • Results Oriented — Consistently achieves results, even under tough circumstances
  • Strategic Mindset — Looks from above to provide objective perspectives to represent strategies creating lasting business value
  • Team mentorship — Encourages open communication and transparency within the team to foster trust and resolve conflicts efficiently

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Marketing or related field.
  • 6‑8 years of experience in B2B marketing, with significant ownership of events or experiential programs.
  • Proven track record managing both organic and paid event strategies and execution.
  • Deep understanding of social media platform best practices, algorithms, and audience engagement tactics.
  • Experience with employee advocacy platforms (e.g., DSMN8) and executive thought leadership.
  • Experience with people management is preferred, but not required.
  • Strong writing and storytelling skills with the ability to tailor messages to different audiences.
  • Analytical mindset with the ability to pull insights from data and make recommendations.
  • Content Planning & Creation — Strong editorial and visual eye with the ability to collaborate on or oversee the creation of compelling content.
  • Campaign Management — Experience running targeted campaigns with clear KPIs and conversion goals.
  • Must be willing to travel at least 25% for events.

Base Compensation Range

$100,000 – $120,000 USD

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