Flagship Event Manager

About the job

Want to shape high-impact customer experiences that engage customers and showcase innovation?

This role will be located in one of our BOBST entity in EUROPE.

As Flagship Event Manager, you will lead the end-to-end delivery of BOBST's flagship customer events, ensuring execution excellence through strong project governance, cross-functional coordination, budget management, and impact measurement.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the planning and execution of flagship customer events.
• Manage event timelines, milestones, and end-to-end delivery to ensure execution excellence.
• Establish project governance and prepare and lead steering committee meetings.
• Monitor project progress, manage risks and dependencies, and facilitate timely decision-making.
• Align and coordinate cross-functional stakeholders, including Product Lines, Industries, Sales, and Regional MarCom teams.
• Foster effective collaboration and manage project communications across all involved parties.
• Manage event budgets, procurement activities, and agency selection and performance.
• Monitor spending and forecasts while ensuring compliance with approved budgets.
• Define and track KPIs, evaluate event performance and outcomes, and deliver post-event reporting.
• Capture lessons learned and recommend improvements for future flagship events.

Competencies, Skills & Experience

Experience

• Proven expertise in managing large-scale events.
• Strong budget management experience,
• Vendor and agency management experience.

Skills

• Advanced project management skills.
• Strong stakeholder management skills.
• Leadership and coordination skills.
• Budget planning, monitoring, and forecasting.
• Risk and dependency management.
• Cross-functional collaboration and communication.
• Project governance and steering committee facilitation.

Competencies

Flexibility to travel as required to ensure successful event delivery, stakeholder alignment, and team cohesion.

• Results-oriented mindset.
• Solution-focused approach.
• Ability to align and engage diverse stakeholders.
• Ability to drive execution excellence and deliver measurable business impact.
• Ability to manage complex, large-scale programs from concept through delivery and evaluation.
• Continuous improvement mindset through performance evaluation and lessons learned.

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