Snr. Marekting Event Manager, AWS Marketing UKIR

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Senior Event Manager to lead high-profile events across the UK and Ireland. This role involves strategic planning, collaboration across teams, and managing budgets to ensure impactful and successful events targeting IT decision-makers. The ideal candidate will have strong project management skills with experience in marketing and data analysis. Working at AWS means contributing to a culture that values diverse experiences and encourages growth.

Qualifications

• Experience managing acquisition marketing or channel programs.
• Experience designing and executing joint marketing plans with strategic partners.
• Proven ability to present metrics to senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• Own the planning and execution of events across the UK and Ireland.
• Develop event strategies to drive success and alignment with business goals.
• Manage the overall event calendar, project timelines, and budget.

Skills

Project Management

Data Analysis

Event Strategy

Cross-functional Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Marketing or related field

Tools

Excel

Tableau

Job description

Snr. Marketing Event Manager, AWS Marketing UKIR

Amazon Web Services (AWS), a global leader in Cloud Computing, is seeking an experienced Senior Event Manager to lead highly visible AWS events across the UK and Ireland.
In this role, you will own the strategy, planning, and execution of events targeting IT decision-makers and professionals. As a senior event manager, you will collaborate closely with sales teams, solution architects, developer advocates, and marketing managers to define event objectives, shape event and content strategy, oversee promotional plans, and manage budgets. You will bring strong project management skills to coordinate pre-event planning, stakeholder communications, and post-event follow-up, ensuring alignment across teams and the delivery of high-quality, impactful events.

Key job responsibilities
• Building event strategies and setting clear goals to drive event success.
• Own the planning, production, and execution of events across the UK and Ireland, ranging from large-scale hosted events and industry tradeshows to high-touch executive roundtables and roadshows.
• Serve as the event project manager, overseeing all aspects of event execution including: pre-event planning and consultation, venue sourcing, vendor coordination, agenda and show flow development, event promotion and registration, event logistics, budget, staffing, on-site delivery, and post-event follow-up and reporting.
• Develop and share regular pre-event status updates and comprehensive post-event debriefs and reports.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with marketing, sales, solution architects, develop relations product, PR, and executive teams to align event plans with broader business objectives.
• Monitor event performance and attendee engagement, making data-driven adjustments and contingency plans to meet goals.
• Deliver reporting across registration, attendance, campaign impact, and ROI.
• Manage the overall event calendar, project timelines, and budget for events in UKI.

About the team
AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services.

Diverse Experiences
Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship and Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

- Experience in developing and managing acquisition marketing or channel programs
- Experience with Excel or Tableau (data manipulation, macros, charts and pivot tables)
- Experience building, executing and scaling cross-functional marketing programs
- Experience developing and executing campaigns across a multitude of timezones and languages
- Experience in marketing or marketing research
- Experience using data and metrics to measure impact and determine improvements
- Experience presenting metrics and progress to goal to senior leadership

- Experience driving direction and alignment with large cross-functional teams and agency partners
- Experience designing and executing joint marketing plans with strategic alliance partners with global footprint

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