Senior Director - Corporate Events (Europe) in Manchester

Veeva Systems is a mission-driven organization and pioneer in industry cloud, helping life sciences companies bring therapies to patients faster. As one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in history, we surpassed $3B in revenue in our last fiscal year with extensive growth potential ahead.

At the heart of Veeva are our values: Do the Right Thing, Customer Success, Employee Success, and Speed. We're not just any public company – we made history in 2021 by becoming a public benefit corporation (PBC), legally bound to balancing the interests of customers, employees, society, and investors.

As a Work Anywhere company, we support your flexibility to work from home or in the office, so you can thrive in your ideal environment. Join us in transforming the life sciences industry, committed to making a positive impact on its customers, employees, and communities.

This is a key contributor role responsible for leading Veeva’s European corporate events team. The team consists of events professionals and third-party vendors planning and executing Veeva’s large-scale customer events and internal annual field kickoffs. The successful candidate must be able to partner effectively with business and marketing leaders while getting into the details to deliver exceptional events for the life sciences industry and the Veeva team.

What You’ll Do

• Leading the corporate events team and working with cross-functional teams, you will lead planning and logistical support for Veeva’s major customer conferences, our internal field kickoff events, and other special program support.
• Hire, manage, and mentor a team of internal events professionals, external freelancers, fostering a culture of collaboration and ensuring extreme attention to detail and superior quality. Emphasis on developing and retaining talent.
• Lead the strategic planning and end-to-end execution of Veeva’s customer Summits and internal field kickoffs in Europe.
• Cultivate relationships with and manage third-party vendors including contract negotiation.
• Oversee budget management for events maximizing value and ensuring effective resourcing.
• Source and evaluate venues for future programs.
• Analyze events data to inform event strategies and improve the attendee journey for each audience and event.
• Manage and maintain processes, run-of-shows, and playbooks to support a growing events program.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including marketing, sales, strategy, product, etc.

Requirements

• 7+ years’ experience owning the management planning and on-site execution of 1,500+ attendee B2B customer events in a convention center setting.
• 3+ years’ experience managing an in-house events team, external agencies, and freelancers.
• Proven experience managing large budgets with attention to detail.
• Thrives in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment.
• Proven excellence participating in cross-team program management.
• Experience collaborating to design space focused on the attendee journey.
• Effective communicator with strong interpersonal skills.
• Highly organized and detail-oriented.
• Self-starter, proactive, and critical thinker.
• Ability to travel 10-15%.

Interviewing with Veeva

We value your time and believe in a transparent hiring process. Here is the process you can expect:

• Follow the application process and submit your resume.
• If moving to the interview stage, our process is as follows: A conversation with the hiring manager, a personality assessment, a practical case exercise, and a final conversation with our group's Senior Leader.
• Once all interviews are complete, the manager will be in touch with a final decision.

Veeva’s headquarters is located in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in more than 15 countries around the world. As an equal opportunity employer, Veeva is committed to fostering a culture of inclusion and growing a diverse workforce. Diversity makes us stronger. It comes in many forms. Gender, race, ethnicity, religion, politics, sexual orientation, age, disability and life experience shape us all into unique individuals. We value people for the individuals they are and the contributions they can bring to our teams.

If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need when applying for a role or in our recruitment process, please contact us at talent_accommodations@veeva.com.

Work Where It’s Best for You

Work Anywhere means you can work in an office or at home on any given day. It’s about getting the work done in the way and place that works best for each person. This applies across all locations and departments. Work Anywhere does not mean work at any time. We have predictable core hours where employees are generally available for meetings and collaboration. Employees are focused and available during core hours.

We invest in our offices to make them places where our employees like to go. If you work in the office three or more days a week, you will have a dedicated office workspace. Our offices function as hubs to draw people in, create social bonds, and where random connections and mixing of ideas happen. We’re investing more in offices, culture, and offsite meetings, not less.

Product teams are organized in regional product hubs for optimal collaboration and live within a time zone of their hub. Our current product hubs are located in Pleasanton, Columbus, Boston, Kansas City, New York City, Raleigh, and Toronto. We create opportunities for teams to get together in person regularly.

Customer-facing roles, such as Sales and Professional Services, live near and/or travel to their customers. When an employee moves within a country it does not cause a change in salary. Where you live impacts you and your family. Not knowing if your compensation will change if you move can cause stress and uncertainty for everyone. We wanted to eliminate that.

Work at Veeva. Work where it’s best for you.