# Manager, Forbes on Fifth **Company**: Forbes **Location**: New York, NY **Work arrangement**: onsite **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $80,000 - $90,000 **Category**: Hospitality **Industry**: Media & Entertainment **Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/forbes/jobs/6238324004?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/job/manager-forbes-on-fifth-1f1f09df-84b/ ## Description Forbes is seeking a hands-on, hospitality-first manager to oversee the day-to-day readiness and operations of Forbes on Fifth, our flagship New York event venue. The Manager will serve as the venue's primary on-site steward, ensuring the space is polished, clean, well maintained, operationally sound, and fully prepared to host a wide range of internal, editorial, partner, licensee, and revenue-generating events. **Responsibilities:** **Venue Readiness, Maintenance & Hospitality** - Maintain a consistently polished, welcoming, and event-ready environment at Forbes on Fifth. - Conduct regular venue walkthroughs to identify maintenance, cleanliness, safety, furniture, technology, supply, and presentation needs. - Coordinate the timely resolution of facility-related issues with Corporate Facilities, building management, cleaning partners, and other outside service providers. - Ensure all guest-facing and back-of-house areas are clean, organized, well stocked, and aligned with Forbes' hospitality standards. - Anticipate each day's space, hospitality, and operational needs based on the venue calendar. - Manage venue-specific inventory, including event furnishings, supplies, signage, hospitality materials, and beverage inventory. **Calendar, Space Booking & Stakeholder Service** - Own and maintain the master calendar for Forbes on Fifth, ensuring all reservations, holds, changes, room assignments, and event details are accurate and current. - Serve as the central point of contact for venue requests, confirming availability, gathering required event information, and managing the intake process. - Coordinate room assignments and resolve scheduling conflicts in partnership with stakeholders and ForbesLive leadership. - Lead venue walkthroughs and planning conversations with internal teams, partners, licensees, and other event stakeholders. **Non-Revenue Event Management** - Independently manage end-to-end venue operations for non-revenue events, including internal programs, content productions, and licensee events. - Develop and manage detailed event logistics, including vendor timelines, floor plans, room setups, service orders, delivery schedules, load-in, event-day operations, load-out, and room reset. - Coordinate with vendors and stakeholders to ensure all event elements are delivered to a high standard and within approved scope and budget. **ForbesLive Event Support** - Partner with ForbesLive producers and event leads to serve as the venue operations lead for revenue-generating programs hosted at Forbes on Fifth. - Support venue readiness, vendor access, room setup, hospitality, deliveries, load-in, load-out, and post-event reset for ForbesLive events. **Vendor, Financial & Compliance Coordination** - Maintain strong working relationships with preferred venue vendors across audio/visual, catering, staffing, security, furniture rental, photography, cleaning, and other operational needs. - Request and evaluate vendor quotes, prepare event cost estimates, and coordinate event-related expenses with stakeholders. - Track invoices, receipts, event costs, and budget codes, partnering with Finance to support accurate chargebacks, billing, and expense reconciliation. **Systems, Standards & Continuous Improvement** - Build and maintain venue operating procedures, event checklists, intake forms, vendor guides, floor-plan standards, inventory records, and other tools that create consistency and scalability. - Identify opportunities to improve the venue experience, reduce operational friction, strengthen vendor performance, and elevate service standards. **The Ideal Candidate:** - Experience in venue operations, event operations, hospitality, facilities coordination, hotel operations, or a comparable high-touch guest environment. - Experience overseeing a premium event venue, hospitality space, cultural institution, corporate event space, hotel, restaurant, or similar setting. - A hospitality-first mindset with exceptional attention to cleanliness, presentation, detail, and guest experience. - Demonstrated ability to manage multiple events, stakeholder requests, vendors, deadlines, and competing priorities at once. - Strong knowledge of event logistics, including catering, audio/visual, security, staffing, furniture, load-in/load-out, and room setup. **Salary:** The annual base salary range for this role is $80,000 - $90,000. For more fresh new jobs, check out [yubhub.co](https://yubhub.co/). ## Skills ### Required - event operations - hospitality - facilities coordination - venue management --- Source: [Apply at job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/forbes/jobs/6238324004?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)