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Location: San Diego, CA (Hybrid)
Travel: Up to 25%
The Senior Manager, Global Tradeshow Strategy & Programs, within Global Marketing, is responsible for leading and coordinating Illumina’s global Tier 1 and Tier 1+ event ecosystem to ensure maximum enterprise impact, consistency, and operational efficiency.
This role serves as the central coordination and governance layer across Global Marketing, Field Marketing, and cross-functional stakeholders, acting as the connective “glue” that aligns strategy, messaging, design standards, and execution readiness across regions.
The position is accountable for ensuring that global events operate as an integrated portfolio, not isolated activations, by driving alignment across planning, resource allocation, and experience design, while enabling Field Marketing to execute locally with clarity and consistency.
Field Marketing owns regional planning and in-market execution, this role will focus on global strategy, alignment and enablement as well as the end-to-end execution for select global events without clear regional ownership, and build scalable toolkits, standards, and playbooks to elevate performance across all events.
This role also owns the biannual Illumina-sponsored International Precision Healthcare Summit (IPHS) and leads execution for strategic global events that emerge outside the annual Field Marketing plan, ensuring agility in response to market dynamics.
Job Responsibilities
1. Global Orchestration & Portfolio Integration
2. Global Strategy & Governance
3. Process Standardization & Enablement
4. Execution Leadership (Targeted & Intentional)
5. Cross-Functional Alignment
6. Vendor Strategy & Resource Optimization
7. Measurement & Continuous Improvement
Key Success Metrics
Job Requirements
Preferred
The estimated base salary range for the Senior Manager, Global Tradeshows & Programs role based in the United States of America is: $129,400 - $194,000. Should the level or location of the role change during the hiring process, the applicable base pay range may be updated accordingly. The range reflects long‑term growth in the role. Most candidates are hired between the minimum and middle of the range. Placement depends on experience, skills, location, and internal equity. Additionally, all employees are eligible for one of our variable cash programs (bonus or commission) and eligible roles may receive equity as part of the compensation package. We offer a wide range of benefits as innovative as our work, including access to genomics sequencing, family planning, health/dental/vision, retirement benefits, and paid time off.
We are a company deeply rooted in belonging, promoting an inclusive environment where employees feel valued and empowered to contribute to our mission. Built on a strong foundation, Illumina has always prioritized openness, collaboration, and seeking alternative perspectives to propel innovation in genomics. We are proud to confirm a zero-net gap in pay, regardless of gender, ethnicity, or race. We also have several Employee Resource Groups (ERG) that deliver career development experiences, increase cultural awareness, and offer opportunities to engage in social responsibility. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to providing employment opportunity regardless of sex, race, creed, color, gender, religion, marital status, domestic partner status, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, pregnancy, military or veteran status, citizenship status, and genetic information. Illumina conducts background checks on applicants for whom a conditional offer of employment has been made. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable local, state, and federal laws. Background check results may potentially result in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment. The background check process and any decisions made as a result shall be made in accordance with all applicable local, state, and federal laws. Illumina prohibits the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in the application and interview process. If you require accommodation to complete the application or interview process, please contact accommodations@illumina.com. To learn more, visit: https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf. The position will be posted until a final candidate is selected or the requisition has a sufficient number of qualified applicants. This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
At Illumina, our goal is to apply innovative technologies and revolutionary assays to the analysis of genetic variation and function, making studies possible that were not even imaginable just a few years ago. These studies will help make the realization of personalized medicine possible. With such rapid advances in technology taking place, it is mission critical to have solutions that are not only innovative, but flexible, scalable, and complete with industry-leading support and service. As a global company that places high value on collaborative interactions, rapid delivery of solutions, and prioritizing the needs of its customers, we strive to meet this challenge. Illumina’s innovative, array-based solutions for DNA, RNA, and protein analysis serve as tools for disease research, drug development, and the development of molecular tests in the clinic.
