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Description
What makes us Qlik?
A Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader for 14 years in a row, Qlik transforms complex data landscapes into actionable insights, driving strategic business outcomes. Serving over 40,000 global customers, our portfolio leverages pervasive data quality and advanced AI/ML capabilities that lead to better decisions, faster.
We excel in integration and governance solutions that work with diverse data sources, and our real-time analytics uncover hidden patterns, empowering teams to address complex challenges and seize new opportunities.
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?
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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:
1. Provide strategy, plan, execute and manage key event programs such as Qlik's Global Tier 1 tradeshows and tech partner events.
2. 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.
3. Create and manage event project timelines.
4. Set goals and objectives aligned with marketing OKRs.
5. Form project teams to support event execution and facilitate reoccurring meetings to drive project plan and timeline.
6. Proactively identify risks and potential issues to programs and suggest actionable solutions.
7. Apply and enforce the company brand, look and feel to all event marketing programs.
8. Ensure that themes and messages are applied appropriately and consistently.
9. Collaborate 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.
10. Provide content for event activations inclusive of communication and social media assets, booth assets, third-party speaking opportunities and event websites.
11. Evaluate and manage vendor relationships.
12. Adhere to event budgets and communicate with key stakeholders to convey spending limits.
13. Identify, track and measure ROI metrics.
14. Source venues for events as needed and review contracts of supporting events.
15. Close out each event program with timely surveys, reporting, final messaging and ROI measurement.
We're looking for a teammate with:
1. Bachelor's Degree in Marketing or Business.
2. 5+ years of event experience, directly managing large scale physical events and conferences.
3. Strategic thinker with strong project management skills.
4. Proven track record of fostering cross functional collaboration.
5. Effective communicator, both written and verbal.
6. Self-starter with leadership capabilities and ability to inspire others.
7. 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:
Find out more about life at Qlik on social: Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, and X/Twitter, and to see all other opportunities to join us and our values, check out our Careers Page.
What else do we offer?
1. Genuine career progression pathways and mentoring programs.
2. Culture of innovation, technology, collaboration, and openness.
3. Flexible, diverse, and international work environment.
4. 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.
If you need assistance applying for a role due to a disability, please submit your request via email to accessibilityta @ qlik.com. Any information you provide will be treated according to Qlik's Recruitment Privacy Notice. Qlik may only respond to emails related to accommodation requests.
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