Strategic Event Experience Lead

2 weeks ago


Old Toronto, Canada Sun Life Financial Full time

At Sun Life Financial, we are committed to delivering exceptional experiences for our employees, advisors, clients, and guests. We are seeking a highly skilled Strategic Event Experience Lead to join our team.

Job Summary

The Strategic Event Experience Lead will be responsible for leading a robust program to support Sun Life's Excel at Hybrid objectives, delivering outstanding services and enabling business communications for a vibrant and engaged employee culture. This includes thousands of virtual, in-person, and hybrid conferences, town halls, webinars, celebrations, meetings, and other corporate event activities as well as multimedia, hospitality, and workplace experience services.

The ideal candidate will have expert event and workplace experience knowledge to advise on the development of new services and space requirements, evolve our technology strategy, and drive a complex roadmap to effectively leverage industry best practices.

This role requires collaboration with cross-departmental partners, including consultation on capital project space design, technology, and operational modeling for experience programs and site upgrades. The successful candidate will provide strategic counsel to business leaders on event and resource strategy to improve service effectiveness.

About the Role
  • Innovation: Identify opportunities to accelerate the Excel at Hybrid program and deliver outstanding event experiences to support leaders and engage employees, advisors, clients, and guests.
  • Strategic and Project Planning and Delivery: Collaborate with cross-departmental partners to deliver robust solutions to enrich employee experience.
  • Digital Leadership: 10+ years of progressive senior business leadership and leading large corporate events, hospitality, and/or employee experience service teams.
  • Data Analytics and Financial Management: Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
Requirements

To be successful in this role, you will need:

  • Proven experience in leading large-scale events, hospitality, and/or employee experience service teams.
  • Expertise in event management, operations, and logistics.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
What We Offer

We offer a competitive salary range of $135,000 - $220,000 per year, depending on experience. Additionally, we provide a comprehensive benefits package, including health insurance, retirement savings plan, and paid time off.

Sun Life Financial is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from diverse candidates. If you are passionate about delivering exceptional experiences and have the skills and expertise required for this role, please submit your application today.



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