EMEA Senior Events Lead - Hybrid, 12-Month FTC

F5 Networks, Inc.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

F5 Networks, Inc. in the UK seeks an EMEA Senior Events Manager to plan and execute high‑impact events across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

The role requires strategic oversight, end-to-end delivery and a proven track record in corporate or tech events. You will lead multi‑stakeholder programs, manage budgets and vendors, and ensure exceptional attendee experiences at in‑person and hybrid events, including conferences and customer gatherings.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute EMEA third-party and hosted events supporting GTM strategies and priorities.
• Build comprehensive project plans with clear outcomes, responsibilities, timelines and deliverables.
• Collaborate with regional marketing and sales to define participation and budgets.
• Coordinate sponsorships, speakers, executive engagement, customer meetings, demos and campaigns.
• Manage organisers, agencies, venues and suppliers, overseeing deadlines, budgets and logistics.
• Measure performance against objectives and capture feedback and pipeline impact.
• Support planning and execution of EMEA conferences with cross-functional teams to drive attendance at the annual user conference.
• Collaborate to shape strategy, objectives, audience journey and program measures.
• Define and tailor end-user experiences for hosted events for practitioners to C-suite.

Skills

Event management

Vendor negotiations

Budgeting

Stakeholder management

Project management

Executive presence

Cross-functional collaboration

Travel readiness

Event technology

Tools

CVENT

Tableau

Job description

F5 Networks, Inc. in the UK seeks an EMEA Senior Events Manager to plan and execute high‑impact events across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

The role requires strategic oversight, end-to-end delivery and a proven track record in corporate or tech events. You will lead multi‑stakeholder programs, manage budgets and vendors, and ensure exceptional attendee experiences at in‑person and hybrid events, including conferences and customer gatherings.