Title: Events Manager
Location: United Kingdom –London
Category: 503-Mktg Corp
JobDescription:
Veeva Systems is a mission-driven organization and pioneer in industry cloud, helping life sciences companies bring therapies to patients faster. As one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in history, we surpassed $2B in revenue in our last fiscal year with extensive growth potential ahead.
At the heart of Veeva are our values: Do the Right Thing, Customer Success, Employee Success, and Speed. We’re not just any public company –we made history in 2021 by becoming a public benefit corporation (PBC), legally bound to balancing the interests of customers, employees, society, and investors.
As a Work Anywhere company, we support your flexibility to work from home or in the office, so you can thrive in your ideal environment.
Join us in transforming the life sciences industry, committed to making a positive impact on its customers, employees, and communities.
The Role
We are looking for an experienced, creative, organized, and highly driven Events Manager to join our European marketing team. The role will support the Events Director with event strategy in Europe as well as the planning, execution &long-term vision for our large-scale customer events in Europe (+1,000), plus support the field marketing team with the execution of smaller Veeva-led community events and industry trade shows. The successful candidate must be able to evidence ownership of both the planning and execution sides of high impact events with differentiating delegate experiences, be an effective cross-functional operator, manage budget details, support the execution of tactics, activities, and other details. Must be a team player, working collaboratively across cross-functional teams, directing event agencies, and managing stakeholder relationships with key executives.
What You’ll Do
- As part of the EU events team and working with cross-functional partners, the Events Manager is responsible for input across the overarching strategy and delivery of the following: 1) European Commercial Summit, 2) European R&D Summit, 3) Field Kick Off and 4) Other Veeva led events, community forums, and industry trade shows taking place across Europe. The Events Manager will lead assigned tasks and be responsible for the successful execution of key deliverables, including but not limited to:
- Support key European Summits in collaboration with our events agency pre-event, onsite, and post-event
- Crafting and delivering differentiating experiences for core and executive track attendees of Veeva industry events
- Organize event logistics &production from cradle to grave for all Veeva-led events and industry trade shows
- Maintain budget, procurement, and invoice/expense tracking and reconciliation
- Ownership of site and vendor selection
- Internal communications and stakeholder management
- Ensures flawless execution, quality of service, and timely delivery of all necessary components, properties, and materials for each event
- Ongoing monitoring and evaluation of industry best practices to bring innovative ideas for digital and in-person events
Requirements
- Minimum 5+ years of corporate event experience in Enterprise B2B Software or SaaS
- Experience leading large-scale (1,000+ attendees) world-class conferences, live and virtual, with a focus on logistical planning and execution
- Thrives in a dynamic, high-pressure environment
- Proven excellence in participating in cross-team program management and high attention to detail
- Proven ability to build relationships with other teams and across all levels
- Ability to travel 15-20% of the time
Nice to Have
- Life sciences industry experiences a plus but not essential
Perks &Benefits
- The chance to work with a genuine market leader
- Charitable Giving –Support a non-profit of your choosing
- Health &wellness allocation
- Allocations for continuous learning &development
- Huge opportunity for progression –the sky’s the limit!
- Incredible support from the wider team and a best-in-class tech stack to help you be successful in your role
- Work anywhere policy –Yes, you can utilize our office spaces or work remotely when you need to
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Veeva’s headquarters is located in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in more than 15 countries around the world.
Veeva is committed to fostering a culture of inclusion and growing a diverse workforce. Diversity makes us stronger. It comes in many forms. Gender, race, ethnicity, religion, politics, sexual orientation, age, disability and life experience shape us all into unique individuals. We value people for the individuals they are and the contributions they can bring to our teams.
- Life sciences industry experiences a plus but not essential