EMEA Event Manager, Amazon
AWS, Fixed Term, 14 Months
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The largest online retailer and technology provider
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The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
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1001+ employees
Company mission
Amazon aims to be Earth’s most customer centric company. Their mission is to continually raise the bar of the customer experience by using the internet and technology to help consumers find, discover and buy anything, and empower businesses and content creators to maximise their success.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, or a related field
- 3-5 years of work experience in an event-related role
- Experience in developing, owning and executing successful B2B event programs end to end
- Experience in driving scale and event enablement across local teams
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Innovative mind-set, ad-hoc problem-solving and ability to deal with ambiguity
- Prior experience working with cross-functional and international teams
- Experience using data and metrics to measure impact and determine improvements
- A willingness to travel and ability to work independently and autonomously, and work across time zones
- Pivots easily from generating big, creative ideas to executing and driving process improvement
- Proven ability to influence without authority
Desirable
- Masters’s degree in Marketing, Business, or a related field
- Work history in a (global) tech company
- Experience in managing events similar to AWS Summits, AWS Cloud Days and AWS re:Invent
- Experience in driving innovative brand presence at large B2B trade shows
What the job involves
- The EMEA Event Manager role is responsible for developing, improving, executing and measuring highly impactful B2B event programs. This is a fixed term contract for 14 months (maternity cover)
- Drive and improve scalable event programs and enablement across EMEA
- Own event projects end-to-end, incl. strategy, goal setting, budget management, project planning, stakeholder management, delivery, result tracking and de-briefs
- Adapt global event programs to local needs
- Improve scalable processes to provide marketing event support efficiently to a variety of internal stakeholders
- Manage event agencies and vendors
- Use data and customer feedback to constantly improve event programs and the customer experience
- Develop and manage marketing material and assets such as branded booths and swag
- Deliver results including clear ROI reporting
- Think around the corner and drive innovation
- The EMEA Events & Sponsorship Team is a diverse team of driven event, program and sponsorship managers
- We are known to deliver bar-raising event strategy, planning, enablement and execution for AWS events and third party trade shows
- We work backwards from our external and internal customers and innovate on their behalf. We work hard, have fun and make history
Our take
Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.
More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.
Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.
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Company benefits
- Employees have opportunities to own Amazon stock, participate in 401(k) plans with company match, and enroll in paid life and accident insurance
- Financial counseling and estate planning services are also available, plus paid short-term and long-term disability if needed
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage to all our regular full-time employees, regardless of their level, tenure, or position
- Amazon employees have free access to a network of more than 2 million caregivers, including nannies, babysitters and special-needs caretakers
- Employees receive discounts on certain day care centers, and Amazon provides a variety of free resources for parents of children with autism, ADHD and developmental disabilities
- Adoption assistance for qualified domestic and international adoption expenses including attorney fees, court costs, and travel
- Leave Share program allows employees to give six weeks of paid parental leave to a spouse or partner who isn’t eligible for parental leave from their employer
Company values
- Customer obsession rather than competitor focus
- Passion for invention
- Commitment to operational excellence
- Long-term thinking
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
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Founders
Jeff Bezos
(Executive Chairman)Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.
Andy Jassy
(President & CEO (not founder))Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.
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