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Description

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.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking an experienced Event Manager to manage highly visible AWS events in the UK&I. This is a unique opportunity to play a key role in AWS, a division of Amazon.com and a global leader in Cloud Computing.

In this role you will plan and execute events targeting IT decision makers and professionals. Your daily responsibility as an event expert will include working closely with sales and marketing managers to identify event goals, content, and promotion strategy, manage budgets, and coordinate event logistics. You will utilize exceptional project management skills to manage pre-event reviews and communications and post-event follow-up, ensuring all stakeholders are working together to deliver a high-quality event.

Key job responsibilities

· Own the planning, production and execution of events hosted in the UK and Ireland from large hosted events to participation in industry tradeshows to small, high touch executive activities, roadshows.

· Responsible for building the event strategy and event goals to ensure event success.

· Serve as event project manager, responsibilities include, but are not limited to: pre-event consultation and planning, venue selection, vendor management, agenda development and show flow, event promotion and registration, printing and shipping, budget management, event staffing, on-site event management, event follow-up and reporting.

· Build and distribute regular event communications including pre-event status reports and post-event trip report.

· Work closely with marketing, sales, product teams, PR, and executive management to achieve business goals via event marketing.

· Track and monitor response of all executed efforts; make contingency plans where necessary to meet attendee goals and other target goals

· Employ data analytics to effectively target event sponsors and attendees

· Keep event website current with up-to-date marketing copy

· Create and deliver ongoing event reporting including registration and attendee, campaign reporting and ROI

· Oversee the event calendar, project timelines, and event budget.

· Expertly drive pre-event weekly meetings, including ownership of event planning documentation.

About the team

Diverse Experiences

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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

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Inclusive Team Culture

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Basic Qualifications

• Master's degree

• Experience in marketing or marketing research

• Experience managing budgets

• Experience using data and metrics to measure impact and determine improvements

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building, executing and scaling cross-functional programs or marketing campaigns from concept to completion

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