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Global Events Marketing Manager Role
The Global Events Marketing Manager is responsible for planning and executing compelling events that create meaningful brand experiences and drive business results. This role works closely with the Senior Director, Global Events to define and support Qlik’s event program strategy, recommend new ideas and event opportunities, strengthen overall operational effectiveness, and evaluate event program performance and results. This position requires a high degree of collaboration across various internal teams, executive leadership, partners/sponsors, and event vendors.
What makes this role interesting?
· Dynamic and Impactful Role: As the EMEA Events Manager, you'll be at the forefront of planning and executing high-profile events that create meaningful brand experiences and drive significant business results. Your work will directly influence Qlik's market presence and customer engagement.
· Strategic Influence: You'll collaborate closely with the Senior Director, Global Events, to shape and support Qlik’s event program strategy. This role offers the opportunity to recommend innovative ideas and event opportunities, enhancing the overall effectiveness of Qlik's event programs.
· Cross-Functional Collaboration: This position requires extensive collaboration across various internal teams, including marketing, sales, product management, and global programs. You'll also work with executive leadership, partners, sponsors, and event vendors, fostering a highly collaborative and dynamic work environment.
· Creative and Forward-Thinking: You'll have the chance to apply creative thinking to event execution, from the look and feel to content management. This role encourages innovative approaches to ensure that themes and messages are consistently and effectively communicated.
· Operational Excellence: You'll be responsible for creating and managing event project timelines, setting goals aligned with marketing objectives, and ensuring operational effectiveness. Your role will involve identifying risks, suggesting actionable solutions, and managing vendor relationships.
· Professional Growth: With a requirement for strong organizational skills, the ability to manage budgets, and experience with contracts and negotiations, this role offers ample opportunities for professional development.
· Core Values: You'll exemplify Qlik's core values: making an impact, taking ownership, being genuine, leading with innovation, and succeeding together. These values create a supportive and motivating work environment.
Here’s how you’ll be making an impact:
· Provide strategy, plan, execute and manage key event programs such as Qlik’s Global Tier 1 tradeshows and tech partner events.
· Lead and provide ownership of assigned workstream tasks for global Qlik hosted events such as Sales Kickoff and Qlik’s global user conference, Qlik Connect.
· Creates and manages event project timelines
· Sets goals and objectives aligned with marketing OKRs
· Forms project teams to support event execution and facilitates reoccurring meetings to drive project plan and timeline
· Proactively identifies risks and potential issues to programs and suggests actionable solutions
· Applies & enforces the company brand, look and feel to all event marketing programs
· Ensures that themes and messages are applied appropriately and consistently
· Collaborates with internal stakeholders, including other marketing groups, sales, product management, and global programs teams to ensure consistency of message and theme is woven into the events
· Forward and creative thinking on event execution from look and feel to content management
· Provides content for event activations inclusive of communication and social media assets, booth assets, third-party speaking opportunities and event websites
· Evaluates and manages vendor relationships
· Adheres to event budgets and communicates with key stakeholders to convey spending limits
· Identifies, tracks and measure ROI metrics
· Sources venues for events as needed and reviews contracts of supporting events
· Closes out each event program with timely surveys, reporting, final messaging & ROI measurement
We’re looking for a teammate with:
· Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing or Business
· 5+ years of event experience, directly managing large scale physical events and conferences
· Strategic thinker with strong project management skills
· Proven track record of fostering cross functional collaboration
· Effective communicator, both written and verbal
· Self-starter with leadership capabilities and ability to inspire others
· Results oriented with demonstrated analytical skills
The location for this role is:
London
Apply now and help change how the world transforms complex data landscapes into actionable insights and turns complex data challenges into new opportunities!
More about Qlik and who we are:
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What else do we offer?
· Genuine career progression pathways and mentoring programs
· Culture of innovation, technology, collaboration, and openness
· Flexible, diverse, and international work environment
Giving back is a huge part of our culture. Alongside an extra “change the world” day plus another for personal development, we also highly encourage participation in our Corporate Responsibility Employee Programs
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