Manager/Senior Manager - Corporate Events

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 with Veeva’s marketing team. The role is primarily responsible for logistics execution of large-scale internal and customer events within Europe. The successful candidate must be able to focus on the execution side of events, be an operational contributor for all day-to-day processes, help manage budgets, support execution of tactics, activities, and other details. Must be a team player working collaboratively with sales, marketing, and cross-functional teams.

What You'll Do

Working with cross-functional teams, you will provide planning and logistical support for Veeva’s major customer conferences, our internal field kickoff events, and other special program support. You will act as lead for assigned tasks and be responsible for the successful execution of key deliverables, including but not limited to:

• Ensuring flawless execution, quality of service, and timely delivery of all necessary components and materials for each event
• Short- and long-range planning and proactive management and prioritization of timelines and priorities
• Developing YoY cost per head analysis against each program component that you manage and each line of business/service offering so that we can make informed decisions on size/location of events
• Managing and executing a major workstream for Veeva events end-to-end (hotels, F&B, registration, welcome reception, evening event, etc.)
• Support hotel and venue sourcing
• Manage events contracts in conjunction with Veeva’s legal team
• Maintaining budget, procurement, and invoice/expense tracking and reconciliation
• Internal communications and coordination

Requirements

• Manager - 5+ years of experience in corporate events/Senior Manager - 8+ years of experience in corporate events
• Experience owning a major workstream of large-scale (1,000+ attendees) world-class conferences, live and virtual, with a focus on logistical planning and execution in a convention center venue
• Experience owning budget, procurement, and reconciliation for a major workstream
• Thrives in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment
• Proven excellence participating in cross-team program management
• Highly organized with superior attention to detail
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills
• Proven ability to build relationships with other teams and across all levels
• Self-starter, proactive, and critical thinker
• Ability to travel 15%

Nice to Have

• Experience in enterprise software or SaaS

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.
• Within 3 days, you will receive a link to a personality assessment administered by a third party.
• Once you complete the assessment, our team will review your full application package and follow up via email with our decision.
• If moving to the interview stage, the process is as follows:
  1. A conversation with the hiring manager
  2. A practical case exercise
  3. 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.

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