Meeting Services Manager - Remote

At the American Cancer Society, we're leading the fight for a world without cancer. Our employees and 1.5 million volunteers are raising the bar every single day. We actively seek candidates from diverse backgrounds including communities of color, the LGBTQ community, veterans, and people with disabilities. The greater the diversity of our people, the better we can serve our communities.

The people who work at the American Cancer Society focus their diverse talents on our lifesaving mission. It is a calling. And the people who answer it are fulfilled.

The Meeting Services Manager plays a key role in advancing the American Cancer Society’s vision to end cancer as we know it by ensuring that the stories that we tell about our work are heard loud and clear through creating successful, engaging, and on-brand virtual, in-person and hybrid events. From small meetings to large conferences, this position ensures each event has impact and optimizes resources to create a seamless experience for attendees to engage with the American Cancer Society. To that end, they will provide meeting planning services for high profile meetings, support internal stakeholders with meeting design. They will also work to create compelling attendee experiences while searching for ways to innovate and evolve solutions. This position has autonomy to provide information and drive resolution for issues consistent with company policies and performance standards. This position will provide support to other team members as needed.

***This is a remote position that can be home based anywhere in the United States. This role will involve limited travel for internal meetings, site inspections, and onsite meeting coordination support.***

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES

Meeting Management Operations

• Works closely with Sr. Meetings Manager to provide support in planning and implementation of effective virtual, hybrid and in-person events.
• Consults with key internal stakeholders to plan and implement effective virtual, hybrid, and in-person meetings by participating in planning sessions to establish meeting goals, objectives, timelines, as it relates to budgets, speakers, venues, technology, equipment, logistical requirements, and attendee registration management.
• Manage progressive methods for meeting logistics and planning including, but not limited to catering requirements, air and ground transportation, registration and housing processes and audio-visual/technical needs.
• Works with Meeting Specialist to consult, build and test registration websites and mobile applications to be effective for each meeting.
• In partnership with manager, recommends and implements process improvements to support continuous improvement to maintain modern registration systems and processes.
• Serves as …