Event Marketing Manager, Trade Shows & Sponsorships - Retail

The role

You will own a pipeline-driven events program and the strategy behind it. You will manage trade shows, conferences, and sponsorships across the retail, healthcare, and transportation industries.

What you will do

• Own Flip's conference calendar end to end
• Negotiate sponsorships, speaking opportunities and booth packages
• Partner with Business Development and Sales to identify right events
• Use speaking slots, satellite events, and executive dinners to open doors with priority accounts
• Build detailed event plans and timelines
• Manage vendor relationships, contracts, and deadlines
• Manage booth production including design, fabrication, AV, shipping, install and teardown
• Partner with creative and content for brand activations and content capture
• Own each event budget from estimate through reconciliation
• Lead the team on the ground at every event

Required qualifications

• 5+ years owning B2B trade shows, executive dinners and industry conferences at a SaaS company
• Retail industry experience
• Exceptional organizational and project management skills
• Comfortable utilizing technology, including Ai tools, hubspot and notion
• Proven budget ownership and ROI fluency
• Commercial instincts
• Strong leadership on the ground
• Natural collaborator
• Relentless attention to detail
• Adaptable and calm under pressure

Nice to have

• hands-on experience with HubSpot or Salesforce, including building event attribution reports

Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare
• Competitive vacation package
• Mandatory half week for everyone over July 4
• Full week off at the end of the year
• Equity

About the company

Flip is a B2B AI company focused on customer support for industries like retail and healthcare. They are a team of 100+ with offices in NYC, LA, and the UK.