Description

Come be a part of a rapidly expanding $35 billion dollar global business. At Amazon Business, we set out every day to innovate and disrupt the status quo. We stand at the intersection of tech & retail in the B2B space developing innovative purchasing and procurement solutions to help businesses and organizations reimagine buying. At Amazon Business, we strive to be the most recognized and preferred strategic partner for smart business buying. Join us in building and celebrating the value of Amazon Business to buyers and sellers of all sizes and industries.

We are looking for a Sr Event Marketing Manager with exceptional experiential marketing, relationship building, and project management skills to manage customer engagement events for Amazon Business. This is an opportunity to join a growing team and make a significant contribution to concept, build, and measure world-class events for our Business customers. You will own relationships with stakeholders and business partners where you will manage and scale highly curated events that enable our marketing strategies and sales teams. To be successful in this role you will need to be creative and driven to deliver high-quality customer-facing events with frugality. You should be dedicated to continually testing, measuring, scaling, and evolving your event programs.

This role will own event strategy in UK and EU working closely with the Global Events team on both Amazon Business owned events (1P) as well as Industry 3P events.

This role will own event strategy for certain customer segments, verticals, or locales, including program management, logistics, internal/external communications, and event tech and tool integrations (including registration, virtual event, and CRM tools). This role will require strong collaboration and influencing skills as it partners across stakeholder teams and locales to define event strategy, program, and sponsorship needs, and to impact long-term customer experience.

You will define goals and objectives, metrics, post-event wrap ups, reporting, and analysis. To be successful you will need to be comfortable establishing clear processes, set prioritization, write and communicate effectively. The right candidate will be a self-starter and have strong interpersonal, project management, and analytical skills.

The ideal candidate will be metrics-driven with strong ownership and focus, with the ability to prioritize effectively and communicate clearly and persuasively. This person is able to deliver results and program excellence beyond the events they own, driving event marketing strategy for colleagues in marketing, sales, and product teams. To be successful in this role, you must be able to dedicate the same level of excellence to simple events as you would large, complex events. This position does not have any direct reports.

Key job responsibilities

• Owning and managing all elements of an event from conception to measurement, including but not limited to: strategy, project management, vendor negotiation and management, production, event registration, data gathering/reporting, evaluations, speaker engagement, cross-functional partnering

• Demonstrated high attention to detail and proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously, creating a sense of urgency in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

• Able to influence at multiple levels without authority

• Thrives in an ambiguous environment; can independently remove blockers and make decisions autonomously

• Exhibits ability to stay calm under pressure; resilient to set-backs

• Passion for customers and creating a memorable experience

• Moves easily between generating big, creative ideas to driving process improvement, to executing event details and administration

• Analytical; experience identifying and interpreting data to make business recommendations

• Partners effectively with multiple stakeholders

• Demonstrated ability to manage complex and highly visible projects

• Ability to travel domestically & internationally and work across time zones

• Proficient with MS Excel, Word, and PPT

• Demonstrated ability to perform well in a highly dynamic, geographically diverse, and rapidly changing environment

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

London, GBR

Basic Qualifications

• Experience building, executing and scaling cross-functional marketing programs

• Experience communicating results to senior leadership

• Experience using Microsoft Excel to manipulate and analyze data

• Experience in marketing or marketing research

• Experience using data and metrics to measure impact and determine improvements

• Experience presenting metrics and progress to goal to senior leadership

• 6+ years’ experience owning and scaling events

Preferred Qualifications

• 6+ years’ experience owning and scaling events

• Capable of directly owning and managing all elements of an event from conception to measurement, including but not limited to: strategy, project management, vendor negotiation and management, production, event registration, data gathering/reporting, evaluations, speaker engagement, cross-functional partnering

• Demonstrated high attention to detail and proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously, creating a sense of urgency in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

• Able to influence at multiple levels without authority

• Thrives in an ambiguous environment; can independently remove blockers and make decisions autonomously

• Exhibits ability to stay calm under pressure; resilient to set-backs

• Passion for customers and creating a memorable experience

• Moves easily between generating big, creative ideas to driving process improvement, to executing event details and administration

• Analytical; experience identifying and interpreting data to make business recommendations

• Partners effectively with multiple stakeholders

• Demonstrated ability to manage complex and highly visible projects

• Ability to travel domestically & internationally and work across time zones

• Proficient with MS Excel, Word, and PPT

• Demonstrated ability to perform well in a highly dynamic, geographically diverse, and rapidly changing environment

• Experience in B2B Marketing or digital marketing.

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