13 Oct
AWS EMEA SARL (UK Branch) - F93
London
Job description
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a talented, self-directed EMEA Event Manager to develop and grow the cloud computing businesses in Europe, Middle East and Africa.
This is a unique opportunity to play a key role in an exciting, industry leading technology business.
The EMEA Event Manager role is responsible for developing, improving, executing and measuring highly impactful B2B event programs.
This is a fixed term contract for 14 months (maternity cover).
Key tasks will include :
- Drive and improve scalable event programs and enablement across EMEA
- Own event projects end-to-end, incl. strategy, goal setting, budget management, project planning, stakeholder management, delivery, result tracking and de-briefs
- Adapt global event programs to local needs
- Improve scalable processes to provide marketing event support efficiently to a variety of internal stakeholders
- Manage event agencies and vendors
- Use data and customer feedback to constantly improve event programs and the customer experience
- Develop and manage marketing material and assets such as branded booths and swag
- Deliver results including clear ROI reporting
- Think around the corner and drive innovation
The preferred location for this role is London (UK). Other locations that can be considered are Munich (Germany) and Amsterdam (Netherlands).
About the team
The EMEA Events & Sponsorship Team is a diverse team of driven event, program and sponsorship managers. We are known to deliver bar-raising event strategy, planning, enablement and execution for AWS events and third party trade shows.
We work backwards from our external and internal customers and innovate on their behalf. We work hard, have fun and make history.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations :
London, GBR
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, or a related field
- 3-5 years of work experience in an event-related role
- Experience in developing, owning and executing successful B2B event programs end to end
- Experience in driving scale and event enablement across local teams
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Innovative mind-set, ad-hoc problem-solving and ability to deal with ambiguity
- Prior experience working with cross-functional and international teams.
- Experience using data and metrics to measure impact and determine improvements
- A willingness to travel and ability to work independently and autonomously,
and work across time zones
- Pivots easily from generating big, creative ideas to executing and driving process improvement
- Proven ability to influence without authority
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Masters’s degree in Marketing, Business, or a related field
- Work history in a (global) tech company
- Experience in managing events similar to AWS Summits, AWS Cloud Days and AWS re : Invent
- Experience in driving innovative brand presence at large B2B trade shows
▶️ EMEA Event Manager, AWS (Fixed Term - 14 Months)
🖊️ AWS EMEA SARL (UK Branch) - F93
📍 London