Strategic Events Specialist, EMEA

The role

This role supports strategic event programs across EMEA, including third-party events, flagship first-party events, and high-profile executive events. You will manage end-to-end event logistics, regional strategy, and on-site execution to drive business impact.

What you will do

• Support all event logistics end to end including creative tasks, room blocks, catering, swag, and staff schedules
• Coordinate with external stakeholders such as venues, agencies, event organisers, hotels, and couriers
• Source agencies, venues, production partners and suppliers
• Assist with run-of-shows, timelines and contingency plans
• Coordinate invitation strategy, registration, attendee communications and internal promotion
• Support EMEA strategic event mapping and calendar planning
• Build relationships with Regional Revenue Marketing, Sales, SDR/BDR, Customer Marketing, Product, Sales Engineering, Partner/Alliance Marketing and Brand/Creative
• Support budget tracking, raising purchase orders, and submitting invoices
• Lead on-site at owned events, including training and coordinating staff
• Perform post-event admin, list uploads, and post-event reports

Required qualifications

• 2–4 years' experience in B2B events or experiential marketing
• Experience of owning established, repeatable event formats end-to-end
• Experience running executive-level programmes such as dinners, roundtables, and advisory boards
• Experience running larger conference/trade show activations
• Multi-market EMEA experience
• Ability to work across different time zones and regions
• Budget, vendor and contract management experience across multiple concurrent workstreams
• Confidence working cross-functionally with Sales, SDR/BDR and Marketing stakeholders
• Ability to present event results and ROI to stakeholders using registration, pipeline and engagement data
• Willingness to travel roughly 40–50%, mainly across EMEA, with some APAC and AMER travel
• Willingness to perform evening/weekend work around live events

Nice to have

• Experience with event and marketing technology such as Asana, Allocadia, Coupa, Jifflenow, Cvent, Salesforce, Sigma, Splash, RainFocus, Claude, and Google Suite
• An additional European language
• Familiarity with account-based marketing (ABM) principles and target-account event strategies
• Cybersecurity or enterprise software experience

Before you apply

• If your application is successful, Abnormal AI will carry out pre-employment checks which must be successfully completed to progress to a final offer

About the company

Abnormal is growing fast. Their Strategic Events are where their story becomes an experience for CISOs and practitioners.