Senior Director - Corporate Events (Europe)

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Hiring Remotely in Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, GBR
In-Office or Remote
Senior level
Big Data • Cloud • Healthtech • Software • Big Data Analytics
The software company powering the path to the world’s new medicines.
The Role
Lead Veeva's European corporate events team to plan and execute large-scale customer conferences and internal field kickoffs. Hire, mentor, and manage internal and external event staff and vendors, oversee budgets and venue sourcing, refine event processes, analyze event data, and collaborate cross-functionally to improve attendee experiences.
Summary Generated by Built In
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.

The Role

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. Core responsibilities included but not limited to:

  • 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:
    1. A conversation with the hiring manager
    2. A personality assessment
    3. A practical case exercise
    4. A final conversation with our group's Senior Leader
  • Once all interviews are complete, the manager will be in touch with a final decision. 

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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 [email protected].

Skills Required

  • 7+ years' experience owning 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
  • Experience cultivating relationships with and managing third-party vendors including contract negotiation
  • 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%

Veeva Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Veeva and has not been reviewed or approved by Veeva.

  • Equity Value & Accessibility Equity is broadly distributed across the company, positioning most employees as shareholders. Stock-based incentives can materially enhance total compensation, particularly at higher seniority.
  • Flexible Benefits Work Anywhere enables remote-first flexibility with options to use offices and to gather through offsites or coworking weeks. This structure supports collaboration while minimizing rigid on-site requirements.
  • Healthcare Strength Core coverage includes medical, dental, vision, HSA/FSA, life and disability, and EAP. Supplemental perks such as commuter assistance and wellness or gym reimbursements are available in some locations.

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The Company
HQ: Pleasanton, CA
6,000 Employees
Year Founded: 2007

What We Do

Veeva is the global leader in cloud software for the life sciences industry. Committed to innovation, product excellence, and customer success, Veeva serves more than 1,000 customers, ranging from the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies to emerging biotechs. As a Public Benefit Corporation, Veeva is committed to balancing the interests of all stakeholders, including customers, employees, shareholders, and the industries it serves.

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