Events Manager

About the role

As a Marketing Events Manager here at Solstice Advanced Materials, you will lead the planning, execution, and optimization of the global events program. This role will manage high-impact trade shows, customer-facing events, internal sales-related programs, and virtual experiences that support customer engagement, brand visibility, and commercial growth. Working within a fast-moving corporate marketing function, the Marketing Events Manager will partner closely with customer marketing, field marketing, sales, finance, procurement, leadership, and external agency partners to deliver events that are strategically aligned, operationally excellent, brand consistent, and measurable. This position is based in Morris Plains, NJ, USA, and will report the Senior Director, Corporate Marketing on a hybrid work schedule.

Responsibilities

• Manage event operations agencies and external vendor partners, including planning, coordination, execution, issue resolution, and performance management
• Plan and execute trade shows, hosted customer events, and large internal sales programs globally in close collaboration with customer marketing and field marketing leaders
• Own and maintain the global events calendar, event planning trackers, and event budget governance across priority programs
• Lead end-to-end execution for large-scale internal and customer-facing events, including project plans, sourcing, contract support, budget management, registration, logistics, vendor coordination, onsite support, and post-event closeout
• Own planning and execution for key flagship programs, including President's Club and Global Sales Kick Off, from budget development through delivery and post-event evaluation
• Partner with customer marketing, field marketing, sales, finance, procurement, legal, communications, and leadership stakeholders to align event goals, timelines, roles, deliverables, and success metrics
• Ensure all events reflect Solstice brand standards, messaging priorities, compliance requirements, and consistent customer experience across regions and formats
• Track event performance against established KPIs, including budget performance, attendee engagement, marketing-generated pipeline, ROMI, campaign effectiveness, and post-event follow-up
• Lead event closeout activities, including documentation, lessons learned, stakeholder transition, results reporting, and recommendations for continuous improvement
• Develop and improve event playbooks, tools, templates, reporting processes, and standardized ways of working for the broader customer marketing and events teams
• Support marketing procurement and budget operations, including purchase order processes, agency/vendor spend tracking, and coordination with finance and procurement partners
• Identify opportunities to automate reporting, improve process adoption, increase efficiency, and strengthen visibility into event performance and marketing operations
• Communicate process changes, tool enhancements, optimization opportunities, and adoption expectations clearly to stakeholders across a global, matrixed organization
• Manage project communications, risks, dependencies, and changes to ensure issues are documented, escalated, and resolved with the appropriate team members

Requirements

• Minimum of eight years of professional experience in event planning, event operations, or event marketing
• Experience managing large-scale live, virtual, and/or hybrid events, including trade shows, customer programs, executive meetings, or internal sales events
• Minimum of two years of experience supporting change management, process improvement, or marketing operations transformation
• Strong project management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities, timelines, budgets, stakeholders, and vendors simultaneously
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills
• Experience working with planning and tracking tools, such as budget trackers, project timelines, logistics plans, event specifications, meeting agenda, action trackers, and deliverable schedules
• Ability to travel up to approximately 40%-50% based on business and event needs

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Events, Business, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in event planning, event marketing, customer marketing, or marketing operations
• B2B marketing experience, preferably in a global organization
• Experience managing agencies, vendors, contractors, and cross-functional project teams
• Experience leading or mentoring event resources, project teams, or agency partners
• Experience in executive, hospitality and sporting events
• Strong business writing, editing, presentation, and stakeholder communication skills
• Results-oriented mindset with strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
• Experience with event performance reporting, marketing analytics, ROMI measurement, campaign effectiveness, and optimization
• Proficiency in Microsoft 365; experience with Power BI, Power Automate, Power Apps, or similar reporting and automation tools is a plus
• Experience with event technology, registration platforms, CRM systems, marketing automation tools, or lead capture processes (iCapture, Cvent, Marketo, Salesforce)
• Highly developed organizational skills with strong attention to detail and a continuous improvement mindset

Pay

The annual base salary for this position is $126,987-$158,734. Please note that this salary information serves as a general guideline. Solstice considers various factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to the scope and responsibilities of the position, the candidate's work experience, education and training, key skills, as well as market and business considerations.

Benefits

• Employer-subsidized Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance
• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
• 401(k) match
• Flexible Spending Accounts, Health Savings Accounts, EAP, and Educational Assistance
• Parental Leave
• Paid Time Off (for vacation, personal business, sick time, and parental leave)
• 12 Paid Holidays

About Solstice Advanced Materials

Solstice Advanced Materials is a leading global specialty materials company that advances science for smarter outcomes. Solstice offers high-performance solutions that enable critical industries and applications, including refrigerants, semiconductor manufacturing, data center cooling, nuclear power, protective fibers, healthcare packaging and more. Solstice is recognized for developing next-generation materials through some of the industry's most renowned brands such as Solstice®, Genetron®, Aclar®, Spectra®, Fluka™, and Hydranal™. Partnering with over 3,000 customers across more than 120 countries and territories and supported by a robust portfolio of over 5,700 patents, Solstice's approximately 4,000 employees worldwide drive innovation in materials science. For more information, visit Advanced Materials.