Events Lead

Roche; Welwyn; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Roche invites you to join as Events Lead for the UK, guiding a team across national and international congresses and events. You will steward a data-driven, customer-centric approach to engagements, ensuring high-quality experiences that align with brand standards and therapy-area needs.

You will champion sustainable, digital-first event practices, leverage partnerships, and align with regulatory and privacy requirements while reporting to the Head of Marketing & Commercial Solutions.

Responsibilities

• Line-manage and coach the Events & Congress Partners, owning their growth, performance and wellbeing.
• Oversee the strategic calendar of UK events, ensuring high-quality execution and consistent brand standards across therapy areas.
• Close capability gaps in digital integration, data analytics and advanced project management.
• Champion the Patient Voice in congress environments, ensuring booths and meetings focus on real-world impact.
• Lead the commitment to green events, reducing waste through modular design and digital-first content.
• Ensure adherence to ABPI, local procedures, data-protection and global compliance standards.
• Cultivate high-value strategic agency partnerships spanning creative, audio-visual, travel and housing services.

Job description

At Roche you can show up as yourself, embraced for the unique qualities you bring. Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections, where you are valued, accepted and respected for who you are, allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally. This is how we aim to prevent, stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Join Roche, where every voice matters.

The Position

The Events Lead is the strategic and operational lead for the UK's physical and hybrid event engagement footprint. Reporting to the Head of Marketing & Commercial Solutions, you lead a team of specialised Partners to deliver world-class experiences at national and international congresses and events, and internal events. You ensure every event is a data-driven, customer-centred touchpoint.

You will build on the high-performing foundations of the current function, driving continuous modernisation and using data and technology to deepen customer engagement. This is a high-visibility role at the heart of our scientific and commercial presence, where events are treated as part of a continuous loop of learning, execution and engagement rather than endpoints in a customer journey.

The Opportunity:

• You line-manage and coach the Events & Congress Partners, owning their growth, performance and wellbeing.
• You oversee the strategic calendar of UK events, ensuring high-quality execution and consistent brand standards across therapy areas.
• You close capability gaps in digital integration, data analytics and advanced project management.
• You champion the Patient Voice in congress environments, ensuring booths and meetings focus on real-world impact.
• You lead our commitment to green events, reducing waste through modular design and digital-first content.
• You are accountable for adherence to ABPI, local procedures, data-protection and global compliance standards.
• You cultivate high-value strategic agency partnerships spanning creative, audio-visual, travel and housing services.

Who you are:

• You bring a proven track record of line-managing and developing a specialised team of events professionals.
• You have significant experience leading large-scale pharmaceutical events or congresses, nationally and internationally.
• You combine deep understanding of the ABPI Code with the ability to connect event activity to business results.
• You influence senior stakeholders across Marketing and Medical Affairs and manage complex external vendor networks.
• You maintain agile resourcing models that flex to peak congress cycles and evolving portfolio needs.

Preferred:

• Experience partnering technical teams on event platforms and data capture.
• Experience leading sustainability initiatives.
• Experience with global event management platforms such as Cvent and hybrid engagement tools.

Who we are

A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100'000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.

Let's build a healthier future, together.

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