EMEA Sr Events Manager

F5 Networks, Inc.; Addlestone; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

F5 Networks, Inc. is seeking a Senior Events Manager to lead planning and execution of EMEA events, including customer, partner and executive gatherings.

You will own the full lifecycle—from strategy and budgeting to on-site delivery—ensuring high standards and measurable business outcomes. Reporting to the Sr Director EMEA Marketing, you will coordinate multiple workstreams, manage vendors and travel, and analyse performance to inform future activity.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of event management experience in a technology or corporate environment.
• Proven end-to-end management of large-scale events including multi-national user conferences.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders in a global, matrixed organisation.
• Experience with in-person and hybrid event delivery, including AV production.
• Negotiating vendor contracts and managing agencies, venues, production partners.
• Independent work style with strong time and task management.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute EMEA third party and hosted events aligned to GTM strategy.
• Build comprehensive project plans with outcomes, responsibilities, timelines and deliverables.
• Collaborate with regional marketing and sales to align participation and audiences.
• Coordinate sponsorship activation, speaker participation, executive engagement and campaigns.
• Manage relationships with organisers, venues, budgets, logistics and on-site delivery.
• Evaluate performance against objectives; capture pipeline impact and lessons learned.
• Support planning of EMEA conferences with cross-team collaboration.
• Shape strategy, audience journey, agenda, and success measures.
• Define end-user experience for hosted events across practitioners to C-suite.

Skills

Project management

Budget management

Executive presence

Stakeholder management

Hybrid events

Vendor negotiations

Travel readiness

Team collaboration

Attention to detail

Tools

CVENT

Tableau

Job description

The Senior Events Manager plays a critical role in planning and executing F5s attendance at industry events as well as high-impact customer, partner and executive events. Reporting into the Sr Director EMEA Marketing, this role leads every stage of an event lifecycle-from strategy, planning and supplier management through on-site or hybrid execution, attendee experience and post-event follow-up-ensuring event activity is delivered to a consistently high standard and achieves clear business outcomes. This role is suited to a strategic, highly experienced events professional with a proven track record of independently leading complex, high-impact programmes with limited oversight. The successful candidate will combine exceptional organisation skills and attention to detail with strong executive presence, confidently coordinating multiple workstreams, senior stakeholders, agencies and vendors while maintaining ownership of timelines, budgets, risks and results.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan and execute EMEA third party and hosted events that support F5 EMEA's GTM strategy and priorities
• Work with multiple stakeholders to build a comprehensive project plan for each event, with clear outcomes, responsibilities, timelines and deliverables
• Partner with regional marketing and sales leaders to assess event opportunities, define F5's participation and ensure investment is aligned with priority audiences, markets and business objectives
• Coordinate sponsorship activation, speaker participation, executive engagement, customer meetings, demonstrations and supporting campaign activity to maximise F5's presence and impact
• Manage relationships with organisers, agencies, venues and suppliers, overseeing deadlines, entitlements, budgets, logistics and on-site delivery
• Evaluate performance against agreed objectives, capturing attendee engagement, stakeholder feedback, pipeline impact and lessons learned to inform future investment decisions
• Support the planning and execution of EMEA conferences. Work in collaboration with the EMEA events specialist, corporate events team and the EMEA marketing team to support the co-ordinated effort to drive customers and partners to our annual user conference
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to shape the strategy, objectives, audience journey, agenda, format, programme plan and success measures
• Define and tailor the end-user experience for each hosted event, ensuring it resonates with the distinct needs and expectations of audiences ranging from practitioners to C-suite executives

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

Key Skills

• Strong project management, organisational and budgeting skills, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously
• Exceptional communication skills and executive presence, with the confidence to engage senior leaders
• Expertise in event-related technologies and platforms for in-person and hybrid programmes - knowledge of CVENT and Tableau preferable
• Strong commercial judgement, budget ownership and vendor negotiation skills
• Ability to analyse feedback and performance metrics to drive continuous improvement
• Skilled at building relationships and influencing stakeholders across functions
• Expert at defining objectives and developing solutions to complete complex assignments independently
• Collaborative team player who thrives in a matrixed, global environment
• Flexible, proactive and calm under pressure, with a solutions-first mindset
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally

At F5, we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create, secure, and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity, from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation.

Everything we do centers around people. That means we obsess over how to make the lives of our customers, and their customers, better.

And it means we prioritize a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive.