Flagship Event Manager

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 experience independently managing complex, large-scale events end-to-end, ideally B2B trade shows, exhibitions, or comparable multi-stakeholder programs
• Demonstrated experience translating a strategic brief into a complete operational event plan and driving it through delivery
• Experience managing multiple parallel workstreams with significant interdependencies
• Proven ownership of substantial event budgets
• Strong experience managing agencies and suppliers through production and delivery
• Experience working in complex, international and cross-functional organizations
• Experience in an industrial, technology or B2B environment would be a strong advantage

Skills

• Advanced project and program management
• Budget planning and cost management
• Risk and dependency management
• Agency briefing and performance management
• Project governance and steering committee facilitation
• Excellent stakeholder communication and coordination
• Excellent written and verbal English; French and/or German would be an advantage

Competencies

• High level of autonomy and ownership, with strong accountability for delivery
• Ability to translate strategic direction into structured operational execution
• Proactive and solution-oriented, able to anticipate risks and drive decisions
• Strong stakeholder leadership, with the ability to align and mobilize cross-functional teams
• Able to balance operational autonomy with strategic alignment, escalating with clear recommendations when needed