Corporate Events Specialist, EMEA

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Ireland.

📋 Description

• Assist in the management of strategic event programs throughout EMEA, which include significant third-party events, flagship first-party gatherings, and high-profile executive occasions.

• Oversee event logistics from start to finish, managing projects such as creative initiatives, room arrangements, catering services, promotional items, staff schedules, and marketing materials.

• Collaborate with venues, agencies, event organizers, hotels, couriers, and other external partners.

• Identify and source agencies, venues, production partners, and suppliers.

• Help develop run-of-shows, timelines, and contingency plans for simultaneous events across various markets.

• Manage invitation strategies, registration processes, attendee communications, and internal promotions.

• Assist in mapping out strategic events in EMEA and planning the calendar, prioritizing investments based on pipeline and account engagement objectives.

• Provide feedback on events to enhance the strategic events program across EMEA.

• Cultivate relationships with teams in Revenue Marketing, Sales, SDR/BDR, Customer Marketing, Product, Sales Engineering, Partner/Alliance Marketing, and Brand/Creative.

• Ensure that Sales teams are well-informed about event details and expectations.

• Monitor budgets, research cost-effective solutions, generate purchase orders, submit invoices, and maintain budget management tools.

• Lead on-site activities at owned events, train team members, and oversee staff orientations.

• Facilitate the execution of flagship regional events, directing temporary or contract personnel and troubleshooting issues as they arise.

• Complete post-event administration tasks, including uploading lists and preparing post-event reports.

• Develop repeatable regional playbooks and share best practices.

• Conduct post-event retrospectives to apply insights gained.

• Provide regular lead-status reports to assess event ROI.

• Consistently deliver events that meet registration, attendance, meetings, and pipeline objectives, while ensuring clear ROI metrics are established.

⛳️ Requirements

• 2–4 years of experience in B2B events or experiential marketing, preferably in technology, SaaS, cybersecurity, or enterprise software.

• Proven track record of managing established, repeatable event formats from inception to completion.

• Experience in executing executive-level programs, including dinners, roundtables, and advisory boards, as well as larger conference and trade show activities.

• Multi-market experience in EMEA with the capability to work across varying time zones and regions.

• Strong program management skills: organized, deadline-oriented, and progressively independent in routine tasks.

• Experience in budget, vendor, and contract management across multiple concurrent projects.

• Ability to work collaboratively with Sales, SDR/BDR, and Marketing teams, effectively translating event activities into commercial results.

• Comfortable presenting event outcomes and ROI using registration, pipeline, and engagement metrics.

• Willing to travel approximately 40–50%, primarily within EMEA, with some travel to APAC and AMER, including evening and weekend commitments for live events.

• Experience in cybersecurity or enterprise software is advantageous, but not mandatory.

• Preferred: Familiarity with tools such as Asana, Allocadia, Coupa, Jifflenow, Cvent, Salesforce, Sigma, Splash, RainFocus, Claude, and Google Suite.

• Preferred: Proficiency in an additional European language.

• Preferred: Understanding of account-based marketing principles and strategies for target-account events.

🏝️ Benefits

• Travel approximately 40–50%, primarily within EMEA, with some travel to APAC and AMER.

• Abnormal AI utilizes AI-assisted tools to aid the recruiting team in preparing for candidate interviews; these tools do not make hiring decisions or automatically screen candidates.

• Pre-employment checks are conducted following a conditional offer, in accordance with applicable legislation and Abnormal AI policies.

• Commitment to equal opportunity employment.