Senior Events Manager EMEA - London, United Kingdom - Reward Gateway

Description

As of May 2023, Reward Gateway was acquired by Edenred. Edenred is a leading digital platform for services and payments for people at work, connecting 52 million users and 2 million partner merchants in 45 countries via close to 1 million corporate clients. They are a CAC40 company listed on the Paris Stock Exchange. Reward Gateway, together with Edenred, positions us as a global market leader in the benefit and engagement industry. The introduction of our two logos side by side is a visual representation of our combined value proposition.
With our shared missions of 'Making the World a Better Place to Work" and 'Enriching connections, For good'. You'll be contributing to improving employee engagement and building better, stronger and more resilient organisations to improve people's daily lives. Our shared mission guides our every action and charts a sustainable path to a better future.
Your Role in Our Mission:We're looking for an ambitious, hands-on Senior Events Manager to play a pivotal role in planning and executing a range of events to bring the 'RG Magic' to our clients, enrich the customer experience and ultimately increase revenue through progressing new sales pipelines, increased product adoption, cross-sell and customer retention.

Some of Your Responsibilities & Core Duties will include:

• Develop and implement events strategies and an annual events calendar, working collaboratively with growth, customer and product marketing leads, to support new and existing business growth goals
• Lead on event planning for brand, prospect and customer-facing events and webinars aligned to quarterly marketing campaigns and always-on event programmes
• Work closely with the EMEA Content Manager to develop compelling event content across a range of formats (e.g. keynotes, presentations, panel discussions)
• Manage event budgets, invoicing processes and financial reconciliations
• Handle key collaborator and supplier relationships, including negotiating with suppliers
• Manage end-to-end event logistics for owned and sponsored brand, prospect and customer events
• Set up and manage event platform configuration, landing page creation, CRM and marketing automation syncing and CRM campaign creation
• Handle post-event reporting and evaluation, including return on investment analysis
• Work collaboratively with growth, customer and product marketing leads on event positioning, promotion and comms
• Develop and implement new frameworks, processes and workflows (including standardised comms) nurture workflows and templates to increase efficiencies across our event programmes

The Experience and Key Skills you will have:

• Demonstrated experience in a Senior Events Management role within a high-growth SaaS business
• 5 years + experience working on large-scale events attendees)
• Extensive experience leading a wide variety of events, such as conferences, webinars and trade shows from large-scale owned events to smaller round tables and executive dinners
• Strong analytical and growth mindset with the ability to analyse and evaluate post-event metrics
• Proven experience handling budgets and invoicing processes
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with strong influencing and negotiation skills
• Ability to work cross-functionally and effectively collaborate with key collaborator groups
• Strong sense of ownership and project management skills, with the ability to multitask
• Proficiency with CRM and marketing automation - ideally Salesforce and HubSpot

We are committed to ensuring an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all candidates. If you have any specific requirements or need reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment journey, please let your Talent Acquisition Partner know. Your needs are important to us, and we want to ensure an equitable experience for every candidate.

Be comfortable. Be you.

At Reward Gateway, we want all of our employees to feel comfortable bringing their passion, creativity, and individuality to work. We value all cultures, backgrounds and experiences, as we truly believe that diversity drives innovation. Express yourself, join our community and help us Make the World a Better Place to Work. We hire BETTER. From perks to people, our BETTER approach to hiring earns us more trust, happier people, and more world-class talent that helps us to make the world a better place to work. Find out more about Reward Gateway's approach to benefits, equality, talent, technology, empathy, and what you'll get in return for joining our Mission at Reward Gateway is culture and client driven. We're obsessed with putting the "Human" in HR and are proud to have been 100% dedicated to HR for over a decade. Since 2007, we've been right by the side of the world's most innovative HR people, giving them beautiful products and tools they can use to attract, engage and retain their people.

The world's most successful companies treat their people differently. They generate stock market returns of twice their peers and they have half the employee turnover. 76% of CEOs recognize that employee engagement is vital to their success but only 24% say they have a highly engaged company. Bridging that engagement gap is what drives us.