Senior Manager, Events

Overview

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Position Summary

The Senior Manager, Events is responsible for strategic oversight, portfolio performance and team leadership for the Americas event portfolio, including in-person, virtual and hybrid events, workshops, and webinars. You will set priorities, success metrics and operating frameworks to ensure events deliver strong member engagement, brand impact and revenue performance. You will also serve as the global program owner for ISC2s virtual events and webinar portfolio, driving continuous improvement in program design technology, scalability and attendee experience. 

 

In addition, you will lead and coach a high-performing team of event planners, providing direction and coaching, and ensuring the team's delivery of financially successful events that support organizational goals for engagement, education, and growth.  

 

**This position is not available to residents of California**.

Responsibilities

Team Leadership & Collaboration 

• Provide strategic leadership, oversight, and governance for the Americas Event team, ensuring consistent delivery across in-person, hybrid, virtual, and webinar programs
• Lead annual planning, set team goals, success metrics and timelines for the Americas event portfolio, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities
• Oversee regional event budgets, forecasts, pricing models and cost-of-delivery analysis to support informed decision-making  
• Review event performance, financial outcomes and attendee insights to guide portfolio optimization and future planning
• Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure audience acquisition, optimized member programming, and content alignment
• Establish team priorities, operating procedures and resource allocation to support balanced workloads, operational excellence and scalable delivery
• Foster an inclusive, collaborative and ISC2 values-aligned team culture 

Budgeting and Reporting 

• Oversee and deliver regional event performance reporting, including expenses, revenue contribution, attendee and sponsor feedback, and ROI analysis 
• Translate performance data into clear recommendations and decisions for leadership regarding investment, prioritization and future improvements
• Conduct competitive analysis and audience insights to benchmark performance and identify growth opportunities
• Manage event budgets, ensuring accuracy, responsible spending, and allocation across events
• Develop and maintain scalable processes, SOPs and operational frameworks for the Americas event team
• Identify operational, technical and financial risks and develop mitigation strategies

Program Ownership: Virtual Events & Webinars 

• Define the vision, success metrics and roadmap for ISC2’s virtual events and webinar portfolio, ensuring scalability, consistency and long-term value
• Serves as the strategic owner of ISC2’s global virtual event and webinar program, setting direction for programming, technology, attendee engagement and partner integration
• Provide oversight and governance to ensure consistent, high-quality delivery by production teams
• Collaborate with marketing, communications, business development, member engagement and content teams to optimize virtual audience acquisition and engagement
• Oversee the global webinar calendar, intake process and production team to ensure consistency and quality 

Operational &