LabCentral

LabCentral

Manager, Events & Partnerships

LabCentral, Cambridge · Full-time

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About the role

  • Are you passionate about making a big impact by connecting people through compelling events and programming?
  • Have you enjoyed leading a team and serving as a mentor?
  • Do you love the work of events as much as the events themselves?

Responsibilities

  • Your day-to-day is focused on making sure our events and programming are well planned, well executed, and genuinely valuable to residents and sponsors, while leading the team that delivers them.
  • Manage and support two direct reports on the events team
  • Drive performance and manage growth and development across your team
  • Own the budget for events and programming, with particular accountability for our strategic events
  • Collaborate with the Partnerships, Startup Success, and Science Strategy teams to shape engagements that deliver real value for residents and sponsors
  • Help sponsors and partners make full use of their engagement opportunities
  • Own the events database and keep event information and attendee tracking clean
  • Bring unexpected care and clear expectation setting to how we host partners, sponsors, and residents
  • Take on other responsibilities as needed to support the team and our residents
  • You will own our largest strategic events, manage a team of two, and drive the content calendar that shapes what we bring to residents, sponsors, and partners across a program of 300+ events and engagements a year.

Requirements

  • Comfort using AI tools in your everyday work and a sense of where they can raise the whole team's impact without sacrificing human touch and service
  • Track record of developing direct reports and guiding a team to consistent high standards through busy events seasons
  • Demonstrated ability to deliver exceptional service and build lasting relationships with clients, sponsors, vendors, and external partners
  • An eye for visual design, with Canva, Adobe Suite, or InDesign familiarity preferred
  • Curiosity to learn the LabCentral community, to continue to build skills and grow, and to learn our systems and strategies related to event programming and partnerships. Enjoy being part of and leading a team while being capable of working independently.

Skills

  • 5 or more years of experience planning and executing events and programming, including 3 or more years managing full-time team members
  • Evidence of growing responsibilities within large teams or across organizations
  • Comfort owning a budget, making sound tradeoffs against it, and evolving it to meet the needs of internal and external stakeholders
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, especially Outlook, Excel, Word and PowerPoint, along with Zoom and Microsoft Teams
  • Familiarity with event management platforms such as Swoogo and CRM systems such as HubSpot
  • Desired competencies and behaviors:
  • Ability to adapt and thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth environment with a strong sense of urgency.
  • Results-oriented, motivated with high attention to detail, time management, prioritization, problem solving and organizational skills.
  • Good professional judgment and decision-making skills.
  • Works professionally, ethically and with integrity.

Compensation

  • Own LabCentral's major strategic events end to end, roughly three to six per year, from concept through logistics, execution, and follow-through
  • Work with the Director and partners across the organization to build an annual content calendar, then drive it by curating ideas and needs from across our community into opportunities sponsors and partners can bring to life

Benefits

  • Bonus points if you are the kind of person who finds yourself loving the nitty gritty details of planning and straightening out chairs no matter where you are.

Company info

  • About LabCentral Founded in the heart of Kendall Square in 2013, LabCentral is a network of shared laboratory spaces and scientific communities that serve as a launchpad for high-potential life-sciences and biotech start-ups.
  • Enjoy being part of and leading a team while being capable of working independently.
  • Founded in the heart of Kendall Square in 2013, LabCentral is a network of shared laboratory spaces and scientific communities that serve as a launchpad for high-potential life-sciences and biotech start-ups.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • Guide the team's regular resident and sponsor communications, from email newsletters to digital signage, and jump in when needed
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