EMEA Sr Events Manager

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EMEA Senior Events Manager, Hybrid flexible working (Addlestone or London)

12-month fixed term contract

Role Overview

The Senior Events Manager plays a critical role in planning and executing F5s attendance at industry events as well as high-impact customer, partner and executive events. Reporting into the Sr Director EMEA Marketing, this role leads every stage of an event lifecycle-from strategy, planning and supplier management through on-site or hybrid execution, attendee experience and post-event follow-up-ensuring event activity is delivered to a consistently high standard and achieves clear business outcomes.

This role is suited to a strategic, highly experienced events professional with a proven track record of independently leading complex, high-impact programmes with limited oversight. The successful candidate will combine exceptional organisation skills and attention to detail with strong executive presence, confidently coordinating multiple workstreams, senior stakeholders, agencies and vendors while maintaining ownership of timelines, budgets, risks and results.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan and execute EMEA third party and hosted events that support F5 EMEA’s GTM strategy and priorities

• Work with multiple stakeholders to build a comprehensive project plan for each event, with clear outcomes, responsibilities, timelines and deliverables

• Partner with regional marketing and sales leaders to assess event opportunities, define F5’s participation and ensure investment is aligned with priority audiences, markets and business objectives

• Coordinate sponsorship activation, speaker participation, executive engagement, customer meetings, demonstrations and supporting campaign activity to maximise F5’s presence and impact

• Manage relationships with organisers, agencies, venues and suppliers, overseeing deadlines, entitlements, budgets, logistics and on-site delivery

• Evaluate performance against agreed objectives, capturing attendee engagement, stakeholder feedback, pipeline impact and lessons learned to inform future investment decisions

• Support the planning and execution of EMEA conferences. Work in collaboration with the EMEA events specialist, corporate events team and the EMEA marketing team to support the co-ordinated effort to drive customers and partners to our annual user conference

• Collaborate with key stakeholders to shape the strategy, objectives, audience journey, agenda, format, programme plan and success measures

• Define and tailor the end-user experience for each hosted event, ensuring it resonates with the distinct needs and expectations of audiences ranging from practitioners to C-suite executives

Background & Experience

• 8+ years of event management experience in a technology or corporate environment

• Proven track record of independently managing large-scale, high-impact events end to end, including multi-national user conferences and strategic third party events

• Demonstrated ability to lead programme meetings, communicate complex ideas and influence senior stakeholders in a global, matrixed organisation

• Understanding of audio-visual equipment and production processes for in-person and hybrid event delivery

• Experience negotiating vendor contracts and managing agencies, venues, production partners and vendor teams

• Demonstrated ability to work independently with minimal supervision, completing all tasks and deliverables accurately and on time

Key Skills

• Strong project management, organisational and budgeting skills, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously

• Exceptional communication skills and executive presence, with the confidence to engage senior leaders

• Expertise in event-related technologies and platforms for in-person and hybrid programmes - knowledge of CVENT and Tableau preferable

• Strong commercial judgement, budget ownership and vendor negotiation skills

• Ability to analyse feedback and performance metrics to drive continuous improvement

• Skilled at building relationships and influencing stakeholders across functions

• Expert at defining objectives and developing solutions to complete complex assignments independently

• Collaborative team player who thrives in a matrixed, global environment

• Flexible, proactive and calm under pressure, with a solutions-first mindset

• Ability to travel domestically and internationally

The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.

Please note that F5 only contacts candidates through F5 email address (ending with @f5.com) or auto email notification from Workday (ending with f5.com or@myworkday.com).

Equal Employment Opportunity

It is the policy of F5 to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants without regard to unlawful considerations of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, sensory, physical, or mental disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other classification protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, discipline, and termination. F5 offers a variety of reasonable accommodations for candidates. Requesting an accommodation is completely voluntary. F5 will assess the need for accommodations in the application process separately from those that may be needed to perform the job. Request by contacting [email protected].