Full-Time | Senior Leadership Role
Location: Banff / Canmore / Harvie Heights, AB
Built Your Own Wedding Business? Ready to Lead Without Carrying It All Alone?
If you’ve:
- Built your own planning brand or book of business
- Managed clients, vendors, timelines, and chaos
- Stayed through late-night tear-downs
- Carried the weight of every contract, payroll decision, and revenue target
And you’re ready for:
- Leadership instead of constant execution
- Stability without sacrificing ambition
- Growth without carrying all the financial risk
This role was designed for you.
The Collective is hiring a Weddings & Events Manager to run:
- Rocky Mountain Wedding & Events
- Rocky Mountain Elopements
This is not a coordinator role. This is not just a senior planner role.
This is a divisional leadership position. You will run the Weddings & Events division.
About The Collective
The Collective is a multi-experience hospitality group based in the Canadian Rockies.
Our ecosystem includes:
- The Gem Event Centre
- Mainspace
- Sevenfold
- Luxury short-term stays
- Photography & Videography
- Florals
- Transportation
- Decor & Rentals
Rocky Mountain Wedding & Events and Rocky Mountain Elopements are core revenue drivers within this ecosystem.
You will lead this silo.
Why This Role Is Different
This is a leadership seat inside an established hospitality ecosystem that already generates strong lead flow and cross-brand demand.
You gain:
- A stable base salary
- Full benefits package
- Paid time off
- Performance bonuses and commission opportunities
- The ability to manage your own schedule
- Remote work flexibility during off-season months
You move from solo operator → supported executive
You keep the ambition. You lose the constant financial pressure.
What You’ll Own Leadership & Team Management
- Lead and manage full-time and associate planners
- Oversee hiring, onboarding, and performance
- Build structure, accountability, and culture within the division
- Develop future leaders
Revenue & Growth
- Drive divisional booking targets and profitability
- Influence pricing strategy and packaging
- Collaborate with Sales and Marketing on conversion and cross-selling
- Identify growth opportunities within The Collective ecosystem
- Track KPIs and performance metrics
Operations & Standards
- Oversee planning systems, workflows, and documentation
- Maintain high standard of communication and service standards
- Handle escalated client situations
- Protect and elevate brand integrity
You will have a voice in strategy and growth.
Required Experience
- 5+ years in wedding or event planning
- 2–3+ years in leadership or team management
- Experience overseeing multiple events simultaneously
- Strong operational and systems mindset
- Comfort with revenue accountability
Highly Valued:
- Experience planning in Banff, Canmore, or the Bow Valley
- Strong local vendor relationships
- Familiarity with mountain venue logistics and Parks regulations
Compensation & Long-Term Opportunity
- Base Salary: Starting at $70,000
- Performance-based bonuses tied to divisional growth
- Extended health & dental benefits
- Access to Company Vehicle
- 3 Weeks Vacation
- Off-season flexibility and/or partial remote work
*We are open to thoughtful compensation structures for candidates transitioning from operating their own planning business.
*Strategic integration or acquisition conversations may be considered for the right fit.
This role offers stability, structure, leadership, and real upside within a growing hospitality group.
Who You Are
- Strategic and systems-minded
- Calm and decisive under pressure
- Emotionally intelligent and confident
- Comfortable having difficult conversations
- Motivated by performance and growth
- Ready to move beyond constant late-night tear-downs into executive leadership
You still love weddings.
You’re just ready to lead at a higher level.
Application Requirements
To apply, please email:
- Your resume
- A cover letter outlining:
- Your leadership philosophy
- Why you’re ready to step into a management role
- A short video introducing yourself and sharing:
- How you would grow the Weddings & Events division
- How you build team culture
Send to:
Kristin Decorato, General Manager via email to [email protected]
Subject Line: Weddings & Events Manager – The Collective
We are not hiring someone to manage weddings.
We are hiring someone to lead the division.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: From $70,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company events
- Dental care
- Disability insurance
- Extended health care
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Paid time off
- Vision care
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Harvie Heights, AB T1W 2W2: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Education:
- Secondary School (preferred)
Work Location: In person
