Consultant, Event Experience & Execution

Make every moment matter

Bring big ideas to life as an Event Experience & Execution Consultant at Nationwide. You’ll shape memorable meetings, incentive experiences, and events that connect people, deliver business impact, and make every detail count.

What you’ll do

• Partner with teams across Nationwide to understand event goals and create compelling proposals, experiences, and budgets.
• Lead complex meetings and events from concept through execution, whether in person, virtual, or hybrid.
• Source and negotiate with venues and vendors, building partnerships that deliver quality, value, and strong return on investment.
• Manage every moving part, from travel, accommodations, speakers, and entertainment to registration, attendee experience, and technology.
• Track budgets, mitigate risk, measure results, and turn insights into even stronger future events.

What we’re looking for

• Typically 8+ years of meeting and event industry experience
• Strong project management skills and confidence leading complex programs and cross-functional teams.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and relationship-building skills, including executive presence and vendor savvy.
• Sound judgment with budgets and business decisions, plus the flexibility and creativity to solve problems under pressure.
• CVENT experience and CMP certification preferred.

If you love turning ambitious ideas into seamless, high-impact experiences, we’d love to meet you!

This hybrid position is based in Columbus, OH. Candidates located near a Nationwide campus will collaborate in office 2 days per week.

Job Description Summary

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Drives interactions with meeting sponsors to resolves event goals, objectives and collaborate across Nationwide to ensure the successful implementation of events.

• Conceptualizes, develops and presents comprehensive event proposals including projected budget, creative elements, site and property recommendations, business content support, activities/entertainment, destination management and other related event operational components.

• Sources, negotiates, and contracts vendors to meet business goals, ensures return on investment and ensure financial value to Nationwide. Consistently looks for strategic partnerships to add value to individual programs and collective Nationwide event offerings.

• Leads project teams for large sophisticated meetings, incentive conferences and events.

• Operationalizes all event details and components, regardless of in-person, virtual, or hybrid including, but not limited to travel, lodging, attendee management, speakers, entertainment, production, print collateral, etc.

• Develops and leads event budgets focusing on cost avoidance, value to Nationwide, return on investment, and risk mitigation.

• Collects data and evaluates program success, developing recommendations for future programs. Measures return on investment.

• Establishes and manages relationships with meeting industry suppliers, influencers, and leaders with vision to ensure quality support, competitiveness and responsiveness to Nationwide needs.

• Uses cloud-based programs (i.e. CVENT) to lead events from intake through registration, project management, budgeting, attendee management, sourcing, reporting, and on-site management of mobile app technology.

May perform other responsibilities as assigned.

Reporting Relationships: Reports to Director/Associate Vice President. This is an individual contributor role.

Typical Skills and Experiences:

Education: Undergraduate studies in related business field preferred.

License/Certification/Designation: CMP required, CVENT and/or PMP certification preferred.

Experience: Typically, eight or more years of demonstrated experience working in the meeting and event industry.

Knowledge, Abilities and Skills: Strong and tested project management skills. Exceptional verbal and written communication skills used to interact with wide variety of audiences including Nationwide management, meeting planning networks, and vendors. Strong interpersonal skills and executive presence with the ability to develop and present program recommendations. Validated ability to analyze and make decisions based on sound practices and budgetary considerations. Ability to be flexible and agile to innovatively resolve problems and issues under stress. Provide ability to analyze and make decisions on process strategies. Skilled at professionalism and political savvy.

Other criteria, including leadership skills, competencies and experiences may take precedence.

Staffing exceptions to the above must be approved by the hiring manager’s leader and HR Business Partner.

Values: Regularly and consistently demonstrates Nationwide Values.

Job Conditions:

Overtime Eligibility: Not Eligible (Exempt)

Working Conditions: Normal office environment. Travel required. Non-standard or extended work may be required based on project needs.

ADA: The above statements cover what are generally believed to be principal and essential functions of this job. Specific circumstances may allow or require some people assigned to the job to perform a somewhat different combination of duties.

Benefits

We have an array of benefits to fit your needs, including: medical/dental/vision, life insurance, short and long term disability coverage, paid time off with newly hired associates receiving a minimum of 18 days paid time off each full calendar year pro-rated quarterly based on hire date, nine paid holidays, 8 hours of Lifetime paid time off, 8 hours of Unity Day paid time off, 401(k) with company match, company-paid pension plan, business casual attire, and more. To learn more about the benefits we offer, click here.

Nationwide is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone feels challenged, appreciated, respected and engaged. Nationwide prohibits discrimination and harassment and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to any characteristic (or classification) protected by applicable law.

NOTE TO EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES:

We value the partnerships we have built with our preferred vendors. Nationwide does not accept unsolicited resumes from employment agencies. All resumes submitted by employment agencies directly to any Nationwide employee or hiring manager in any form without a signed Nationwide Client Services Agreement on file and search engagement for that position will be deemed unsolicited in nature. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is subsequently hired as a result of the referral or through other means.

About Us

At Nationwide, we find purpose in protecting people, businesses and futures with extraordinary care – and we’ve been doing that since 1926. Our financial strength and caring culture extend beyond our associates into the communities we serve. You really can feel the difference at Nationwide, which is why we continue to be named one of the Fortune 100 Best Companies To Work For. Check out why others think we're a great place to work, too, and let us know – can you see yourself at Nationwide?

Nationwide is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone feels challenged, appreciated, respected and engaged. Nationwide prohibits discrimination and harassment and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to any characteristic (or classification) protected by applicable law.