# Corporate Events Meeting Lead, Project Management & Execution Advisor **Company**: The Cigna Group **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: 90,800 - 151,400 USD / yearly **Category**: Operations **Industry**: Healthcare **Apply**: https://cigna.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/cignacareers/job/Bloomfield-CT/Event-Program-Manager---Meeting-Lead---Bloomfield--CT_26011507?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_a4d187d2-61e ## Description The Corporate Events Meeting Lead, Project Management & Execution Advisor is a seasoned event and project management professional responsible for leading large-scale, complex, and highly visible events from initial concept through post-event evaluation. The individual will drive complex, high-profile events from concept to completion, applying expert project management skills to align cross-functional teams, manage timelines and budgets, mitigate risk, and deliver seamless, high-impact experiences that exceed stakeholder expectations. **Key Responsibilities:** - Lead the strategic design, development, project management, and execution of assigned events and programs, both virtual and in-person, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and stakeholder expectations. - Develop and manage comprehensive project plans, including workstreams, timelines, milestones, dependencies, stakeholder communications, risk management strategies, and delivery schedules. - Drive complex, high-profile enterprise and executive events from concept through completion, ensuring seamless coordination across all phases of planning and execution. - Support the development and execution of strategy for flagship enterprise events, executive leadership meetings, incentive programs, and unique experiences in partnership with Communications and the CEO's Office. - Serve as a trusted advisor to executive and senior leaders, facilitating strategic discussions around event objectives, attendee engagement, content development, and experience design. - Establish governance structures and facilitate planning meetings to ensure alignment, accountability, issue resolution, and successful delivery across multiple cross-functional teams. - Develop integrated plans across Communications, Business Marketing, Branding, Human Resources, Production, Operations, and other business partners to ensure coordinated execution and achievement of business outcomes. - Manage event budgets, forecasting, vendor relationships, contracts, and resource allocation while maintaining fiscal responsibility and maximizing return on investment. - Identify risks, develop mitigation plans, anticipate challenges, and proactively resolve issues that could impact project success. - Recommend innovative solutions, process improvements, and best practices to continually enhance event effectiveness, efficiency, and attendee experience. - Measure event effectiveness through attendee feedback, business outcomes, ROI/ROO metrics, and executive reporting; develop actionable insights and recommendations for future events. - Develop tools, templates, processes, and operational standards that elevate event planning and project management capabilities across the organization. - Represent The Cigna Group with exceptional executive presence, professionalism, and credibility when engaging senior leadership, external stakeholders, agencies, vendors, and partners. - Remain calm, adaptable, and solution-oriented in fast-paced environments, effectively managing shifting priorities and compressed timelines. **Ideal candidates will offer:** - Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience. - Minimum 5+ years of experience in corporate event management, program management, project management, or a related field. - Demonstrated success managing complex, high-visibility events, executive meetings, leadership forums, and enterprise programs from concept through execution. - Strong expertise in project management disciplines, including project planning, timeline management, risk mitigation, stakeholder management, governance, and cross-functional coordination. - Proven ability to manage multiple concurrent projects while balancing competing priorities and meeting critical deadlines. - Strong financial acumen and experience developing, managing, and forecasting event and program budgets. - Exceptional executive presence, communication, facilitation, and relationship-building skills. - Experience influencing and collaborating with senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders in a matrixed organization. - Strong critical thinking, decision-making, and problem-solving capabilities. - Demonstrated ability to operate independently and drive results with limited direction. - Experience supporting CEO, executive, and senior leadership events. - Healthcare industry experience. - Knowledge of event production, destination management, hotel operations, registration platforms, virtual event technologies, and innovative event delivery methodologies. - Familiarity with event measurement frameworks, attendee engagement strategies, and ROI/ROO evaluation methodologies. - Ability to travel approximately 35% annually, including occasional nights and weekends. - Ability to work from a The Cigna Group office at least three days per week or travel to other company locations based on business and event needs. **Benefits:** - Comprehensive range of benefits, including medical, vision, dental, and well-being and behavioral health programs. - 401(k), company-paid life insurance, tuition reimbursement, a minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year, paid holidays, and leaves of absence. ## Skills ### Required - project management - event management - stakeholder engagement - budgeting - risk management - communication - facilitation - relationship-building ### Nice to have - healthcare industry experience - event production - destination management - hotel operations - registration platforms - virtual event technologies - innovative event delivery methodologies --- Source: [Apply at cigna.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com](https://cigna.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/cignacareers/job/Bloomfield-CT/Event-Program-Manager---Meeting-Lead---Bloomfield--CT_26011507?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)