Zafin is an AI platform company helping regulated institutions modernize how critical work is designed, governed, and delivered. Our technology enables organizations to move faster while maintaining the governance, accountability, and control required in highly regulated environments.

Our portfolio includes

Zafin AIOS , an agent orchestration platform for governed AI work; the

Zafin Banking Platform , which helps banks modernize product, pricing, offers, billing, loyalty, and relationship management; and

Zafin IO , an integration platform that connects data, systems, and workflows across complex enterprise environments.

Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, Zafin partners with leading financial institutions across North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific. As AI transforms the future of financial services, we're building the platforms that help regulated organizations adopt AI responsibly and at scale.

What is the Chance? The

Manager, Global Events

role reports to the Senior Manager, Event Programs and independently leads the end-to-end delivery of an assigned portfolio of events across in-person, hybrid, sponsored, partner, and regional formats.

This role converts approved event briefs into detailed delivery plans, owns day-to-day execution and stakeholder coordination, and ensures each assigned event is delivered on time, within budget, on brand, and to a consistently high attendee-experience standard.

This highly organized and detailed oriented individual works closely with the Senior Manager, Event Programs, who will oversee the enterprise event portfolio and program governance.

What Will You Do? Event planning and program delivery

Serve as the accountable delivery lead for an assigned group of events,



developing event-level project plans, workback schedules, budgets, staffing requirements, risk registers, and success checkpoints within the portfolio framework established by the Senior Manager.

Lead event kick-offs and working sessions for assigned programs, coordinate owners and dependencies, maintain decisions and action items, resolve delivery issues, and elevate material risks or trade-offs.

Translates the approved event brief and attendee journey into detailed logistics, floor plans, production schedules, registration workflows, staffing plans, run-of-show documents, hospitality requirements, and onsite operating procedures. Present/share with internal stakeholders from marketing, sales, industry advisory teams accordingly.

With guidance from Senior Manager, develop and maintain event-level templates and playbooks in line with portfolio standards for run-of-show documents, staffing plans, stakeholder briefings, speaker prep, sponsor fulfillment, post-event recaps, and risk mitigation.

Budget, vendor and logistics management

Manage purchase requests, vendor quotes, invoice reviews, reconciliations, and identification of cost efficiencies within approved parameters.

Manage venue, hotel, production, catering, registration, freight, exhibit, promotional, and other suppliers for assigned events; confirm scope,



deliverables and deadlines, and elevate contract or performance concerns as required.

Research venues, restaurants, vendors, regional event opportunities, competitor event participation, and destination considerations to support future planning. Leverage vendors to support research, where needed.

Event communications, content and stakeholder coordination

Coordinate event-specific communications and content deliverables, including Jira tickets, invitations, registration pages, attendee reminders, speaker materials, signage, briefing documents, event-app content, and post-event messages, securing approvals from the appropriate owners.

Manage sponsor, exhibitor, speaker, executive and VIP deliverables for assigned events, ensuring requirements, deadlines, rehearsals, credentials, and onsite support are confirmed and documented.

Ensure event materials follow brand standards and are accurate, polished, accessible, and ready for internal teams, attendee, speaker, sponsor, or sales audiences.

Onsite event execution and attendee experience

Lead onsite delivery for assigned events, including registration desk coverage, vendor coordination, signage checks, staffing, run-of-show execution, attendee experience, room set-up reviews, and issue resolution.

Event performance and continuous improvement

Coordinate lead-capture readiness and post-event handoff with sales and marketing operations; validate event records, surveys, invoices, and required follow-up inputs before closing the event file.

Produce event-level recaps that document delivery results, budget performance, attendee feedback, vendor performance, risks, and recommended improvem

📌 Manager, Global Events (Winnipeg)
🏢 Zafin
📍 Winnipeg