Senior Events Manager

Do you have experience delivering integrated international event strategies that can bring us closer to our customer communities?

Are you hyper-organised and ready to lead a team to plan innovative events, create excellent customer experiences, and deliver demonstrate results?

If so, we have a newly created role in our team that we'd like to talk to you about. This role will lead our Events team and be responsible for creating and delivering our global events strategy. You are a strategic thinker who understands how events can bring our content and colleagues together with our customer communities through an exciting programme of physical, virtual, and hybrid events that position Cambridge as educational thought-leaders in teaching, learning, and assessment.

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.

About the role  

As a vital part of our growing global marketing team, you will design events that build and nurture customer relationships, gain recognition and generate leads. Central to this Senior Marketing Events Manager role is the ability to coordinate and influence multiple stakeholder groups, establishing governance and metrics so that we can demonstrate the positive customer impact of our event activities.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Creating a global marketing events strategy, collaborating across global and regional marketing teams to define deliverables, budgets, and success measures.
• Executing global marketing events programme, delivering on global marketing strategies and objectives, optimising budget allocation and event income.
• Establishing a customer-centric planning framework for diverse event formats, ensuring desired experiences and outcomes throughout the event journey.
• Leading and developing a high-performing events team responsible for all event types, fostering development and impactful contributions to the business
• Implementing process, training, and governance frameworks for efficient, impactful, and sustainable global and local event operations.
• Developing a performance measurement framework for events, analysing ROI, setting KPIs and driving continuous improvements through insight, data, and experiments. 

About you 

To excel in this role, you will:

• Combine a customer-centric mind-set with strategic thinking and a passion for measurable results.
• Inspire and empower a team with clear direction, with confidence to influence internal and external stakeholders.
• Demonstrate a track record of delivering international event strategies, ideally in large, global organisations.
• Have excellent project, budget, and organisational skills with a focus on delivering to time, budget, and quality standards.
• Be collaborative, bringing colleagues together to sharing event expertise, build relationships, and encourage innovation.

 If you would like to know more about this opportunity and what will make you successful, please see the full job description attached to the bottom of this vacancy on our careers site. 

Rewards and benefits

We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible rewards package, featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:

• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Group personal pension scheme
• Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
• Green travel schemes

We are a hybrid working organisation, and we offer a range of flexible working options from day one. For this role, we expect the successful candidate to spend twice a week or more of their time at their dedicated office or location. We will also consider other work arrangements if you wish to work more flexibly or require adjustments due to a disability.

Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.

 We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being Wednesday 24^th April 2024 and interviews are scheduled to take place on the week commencing 6^th May 2024.

Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is an approved UK employer for the sponsorship of eligible roles and applicants under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please refer to the gov.uk website for guidance to understand your own eligibility based on the role you are applying for.

Why join us

Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You'll belong to a collaborative team that's exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe – for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration. 

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it's safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background.

We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.

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