Minimum 5+ years of corporate event experience, Experience leading large-scale conferences with 1,000+ attendees, Strong attention to detail and ability to thrive in fast-paced environments, Proven ability to build relationships across teams and levels..
Key responsabilities:
Support the planning and execution of large-scale customer events in Europe
Organize logistics and production for Veeva-led events and industry trade shows
Manage budget details, procurement, and expense tracking
Ensure flawless execution and quality of service for all event components.
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Veeva Systems Inc. is a leader in cloud-based software for the global life sciences industry. Committed to innovation, product excellence, and customer success, Veeva has more than 875 customers, ranging from the world's largest pharmaceutical companies to emerging biotechs. Veeva is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, with offices in Canada, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Veeva is growing to 10,000 employees by 2025, so visit the Jobs section for open positions and remember that correspondence to new applicants and existing candidates will only come from an official @veeva.com email address.
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.
We are looking for an experienced, creative, organized, and highly driven Events Manager/Senior Manager to join our European marketing team. The role will support 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, and 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 European events team and working with cross-functional partners, the Events Manager/Senior 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/Senior 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
Experience leading large-scale (1,000+ attendees) world-class conferences, live and virtual, with a focus on logistical planning and execution
Thrives in a fast-paced, 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
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.
As an equal opportunity employer, 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.
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