Senior Events Manager

Senior Events Manager

TRUE Network of Advisors | Remote (U.S. Central Time Preferred) | Remote | Full-Time

Why This Role Matters

As a Senior Events Manager, you'll be at the center of creating memorable experiences that strengthen relationships, elevate brands, and support business growth across a nationwide network of employee benefits leaders. This role combines event strategy, project management, stakeholder coordination, and operational execution to deliver exceptional experiences from concept through completion.

You'll partner with member agencies, sponsors, speakers, vendors, venues, and internal teams to execute high-touch events that reflect the professionalism and collaborative spirit of TRUE Network of Advisors. Your work will directly impact member engagement, partner relationships, and the overall success of the organization.

How You'll Make an Impact

• Lead the full event planning lifecycle for corporate meetings, executive retreats, educational conferences, shareholder meetings, incentive trips, client events, and virtual programs.
• Develop and manage detailed pre-event, onsite, and post-event plans, including rooming lists, event orders, audiovisual requirements, runs of show, staffing schedules, and contingency plans.
• Build and maintain registration websites, mobile event applications, attendee communications, surveys, and event technology platforms.
• Coordinate agenda development, speaker preparation, content reviews, and stakeholder planning meetings to ensure every event achieves its business objectives.
• Serve as the onsite lead and primary point of contact for attendees, sponsors, speakers, vendors, and partners while ensuring seamless event execution.
• Manage virtual event production, webinar support, and technical event logistics.
• Source, negotiate, and oversee vendors, venues, destination management companies, hotels, transportation providers, speakers, entertainment partners, and gifting suppliers.
• Partner with marketing, creative, and partnership teams to deliver branded experiences, sponsorship fulfillment, event communications, and attendee engagement initiatives.
• Manage event budgets, track expenses, support ROI analysis, and develop post-event recommendations and reporting.
• Coordinate attendee travel, accommodations, logistics, and customer support throughout the event lifecycle.
• Simultaneously manage multiple events while maintaining exceptional attention to detail, proactive communication, and operational excellence.

Who You Are

• A highly organized project manager who thrives in fast-moving environments with multiple competing priorities.
• A relationship builder who can earn trust with executives, sponsors, clients, vendors, and internal stakeholders.
• Calm under pressure and comfortable making decisions when plans change unexpectedly.
• Equally comfortable behind the scenes managing complex logistics and in front of attendees serving as a polished representative of the organization.
• A proactive communicator who anticipates challenges and solves problems before they impact the event experience.
• Detail-oriented without losing sight of the larger business objectives behind each event.
• Collaborative, adaptable, and motivated by delivering exceptional experiences that create lasting impressions.
• Resourceful and self-sufficient while also enjoying being part of a highly collaborative team environment.

What You Bring

Day One:

• 5+ years of experience planning and executing events in a professional services, corporate, hospitality, insurance, financial services, technology, or similar environment.
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Hospitality, Event Management, Marketing, Communications, or a related field.
• Experience managing high-touch corporate events, executive meetings, educational conferences, retreats, client events, or comparable professional experiences.
• Experience utilizing event technology platforms such as Cvent, Guidebook, Zoom Webinars, registration systems, mobile event applications, and survey tools.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
• Strong project management skills with the ability to manage multiple events, budgets, stakeholders, vendors, timelines, and deliverables simultaneously.
• Exceptional written, verbal, interpersonal, and presentation skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work under tight deadlines while adapting quickly to changing priorities.
• Strong vendor management and negotiation experience.
• Ability to build and maintain relationships across clients, sponsors, speakers, venue teams, vendors, internal teams, and executive stakeholders.
• Experience serving in both logistical and front-facing event roles, including attendee support, event hosting, session moderation, or onsite leadership.
• Ability to travel domestically up to 35%, including occasional trips lasting up to seven days.

Valuable Additions:

• Experience within employee benefits, insurance, professional services, consulting, association, or membership-based organizations.
• Experience managing executive retreats, board meetings, shareholder events, or incentive travel programs.
• Experience supporting hybrid and virtual event production.
• Familiarity with sponsorship fulfillment and partner engagement strategies.
• Experience developing event metrics, ROI reporting, and post-event analytics.
• Experience managing branded attendee experiences, gifting programs, and event merchandising initiatives.
• Demonstrated success improving processes, simplifying workflows, and creating efficiencies within an event management function.

Real Benefits for Real Life

At Patriot, great benefits mean more than coverage; they mean being there through every stage of life: your health, your family, your financial future, or simply time to recharge. Whether you're working or not, life doesn't stop. Neither should your benefits.

Highlights Include:

• Multiple medical plan options, with preventive care covered at 100%
• Free virtual medical and mental healthcare for employees and their families, plus a dedicated healthcare concierge to help you navigate benefits, compare prescription costs, and make more confident, personalized care decisions
• Employer-paid short-term and long-term disability coverage
• Paid parental leave
• Personalized PTO that lets you take time away when you need it, without traditional accruals, plus separate sick leave
• Competitive 401(k) company match to help you build your financial future
• Comprehensive dental and vision coverage
• Employee Assistance Program with confidential mental health, legal, financial, and work-life support

About TRUE Network of Advisors

TRUE Network of Advisors is a nationwide, exclusive group of employee benefit firms with a dynamic and forward-thinking approach to employee benefits consulting. Our members receive a unique, collaborative experience, allowing them to share best practices across all aspects of their agencies while benefiting from national strategic partner relationships.

Currently made up of 93 member firms, over 30,000 employers nationwide receive employee benefits guidance from the Network. TRUE's mission is simple: to help our agencies and their people grow, develop, and prosper.

About Patriot Growth Insurance Services

At Patriot, we build our teams around a simple idea: people do their best work when they feel supported as whole people, not just managed as employees. We're invested in your growth, not just your output, and we back that up with a competitive salary and a comprehensive health and welfare program that extends to your family and domestic partners too, because who you're building a life with matters to us as much as the work you do.

Founded in 2019, Patriot is a growth-focused national insurance services firm that partners with employee benefits and property and casualty agencies across the United States. We're currently ranked the 25th-largest broker in the U.S. by Business Insurance and were named to the 2025 Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies. With over 2,100 employees operating in 150+ locations across more than 45 states, our collaborative model gives every person and every agency the resources and support they need to grow, while each agency keeps its own identity, culture, and way of doing business. That growth has never been about numbers alone, it's about the people behind them.

Patriot Growth Insurance Services is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship or immigration status, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.

This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, and training. Patriot makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time. For more information, read through our EEO and DE&I Policy located on our website at

Pay Range: Posted below*

*Any job offer is based upon a salary analysis to comply with applicable state pay transparency laws, considering relevant experience, education, certifications, and seniority as compared to others doing substantially similar work. There is no guarantee an offer will be at the top of the posted range based on the salary analysis. Roles may also be eligible for a supplemental compensation, such as performance-based bonus, commission, or equity. Specific eligibility will be discussed with Talent Acquisition team.

Patriot Growth Insurance Services offers a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision insurance; a 401(k) with company match; personalized time off and company paid holidays.

Pay Range

$80,000—$100,000 USD