Senior Events Marketing Manager

Bentley Systems
Senior Events Marketing Manager
Location: This role is remote, based from a home office in the US (EST preferred)
Position Summary
The Senior Events Marketing Manager is primarily responsible for the timely execution of the promotions plan to support virtual and onsite corporate events and initiatives, with a strong focus on hybrid, virtual events. In this role, you will work with key stakeholders to ensure that the event strategy and execution achieve the stated objectives and that the corporate brand gets communicated accurately and consistently. This position is also accountable for the end-to-end program management for assigned events. It requires strong organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills, with attention to detail and timelines. This role requires knowledge of video production requirements, event platforms, and event production. Candidate must be able to independently collaborate with multiple stakeholders across different regions and organizations to ensure event results are met.
Responsibilities

• Create and communicate promotional toolkits to the regional marketing and sales team(s) for localization and deployment to generate the highest quality attendance.
• Manage and standardize processes for corporate events and document best practices and branding guidelines.
• Construct and define an event framework to achieve goals and continually apply best practices and creative ideas to represent and promote Bentley applications.
• Ensure post-event leads, professional development hours, final attendance numbers, etc., have been appropriately processed and communicated.
• Champion and deliver reports, dashboards, and presentations to communicate event targets, metrics, successes, failures, and suggested improvements to key stakeholder.
• Coordinates with regional marketing teams to ensure Sales and other key stakeholders are aware of planned event programs in the region.
• Align promotion plans with the logistics and budgeting process (including, Virtual events, third-party promotion, receptions, onsite promotions, corporate sponsor agreements, etc.).
• Provide expertise on physical, hybrid, and virtual events and reporting systems (e.g., On24, Splash, Zoom Teams, Certain, Snowflake, SharePoint).
• Develop promotional messaging and continually test and evaluate subject lines, images, layout, and length to improve open rates, click-through rates, and conversions. Make ongoing adjustments to meet set goals.
• Create and ensure the communication of sales toolkits to enable sales, channel, and Advancement Teams to promote and support events.
• Create content and maintain updates to event landing pages and microsites, including coordinating text localization as required.
• Engage with the digital marketing team to ensure events are integrated into campaigns. Work with Marketing Engagement/Creative Services for creating and/or editing email and landing page copy, providing segmentation and audience input.
• Coordinate with key stakeholders to create and confirm agendas and promotional content to support each event.
• Create, distribute, and maintain an event summary template to ensure all stakeholders know goals, performance, and onsite, hybrid, or virtual activities/offers.

Required Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, And Experience

• Ability to manage the development of event-related internal/external communications.
• Can decipher and apply appropriate existing user or new business event strategies.
• Understanding the software industry and Bentley markets is a strong plus.
• Ability to report on event effectiveness, as measured by reports, surveys, testing, and rates.
• Significant experience managing C-level events, roundtables, and strategic events for acquiring new contacts and accounts is a plus.
• Strong knowledge of Office 365, specifically PowerPoint, Word, and Excel; SharePoint; advanced knowledge of Microsoft Teams and experience with virtual event production.
• Experience managing the development and adherence to Event Plans (planning, pre, during, and post-event).
• Familiarity of event registration systems and mobile app platforms (Splash, Rainfocus, CVENT, On24, Certain, Zoom, GoToWebinar, WebEx, Hopin, etc.).
• This role requires travel up to 10%.
• Minimum 5 - 8 years of related event planning experience focusing on events directly impacting revenue operations and/or customer experience, preferably at a software company, including managing virtual, hybrid, or roundtables events.
• Knowledge of video production, scripting, editing, and production requirements for staging and projection requirements for physical and virtual events.
• Possess excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong editing and proofreading skills.
• Requires sitting or standing at will while performing work on a computer (or any other physical requirements). The role requires communication with managers, peers and other colleagues of the company in person (on occasion), and by utilizing Microsoft Teams chat, calling and meeting functions.
• Experience with Marketo is a plus.
• Experience with event mobile apps and surveys.
• Experience managing department budgets and communications with vendors.
• Ability to identify, solicit, and confirm opportunities to assert Bentley as a thought leader.
• Experience with live event production, including lighting, audio, video, and technical direction.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, Communications, related field, or relevant training and/or experience.
• Must be deadline-driven and detail-oriented.

What We Offer

• The opportunity to work within a global and diversely international team.
• A great Team and culture – please see our Recruitment Video.
• A supportive and collaborative environment.
• Colleague Recognition Awards.
• An exciting career as an integral part of a world-leading software company providing solutions for architecture, engineering, and construction.
• Competitive Salary and benefits.

About Bentley Systems
Bentley Systems (Nasdaq: BSY) is the infrastructure engineering software company. We provide innovative software to advance the world's infrastructure – sustaining both the global economy and environment. Our industry-leading software solutions are used by professionals, and organizations of every size, for the design, construction, and operations of roads and bridges, rail and transit, water and wastewater, public works and utilities, buildings and campuses, mining, and industrial facilities. Our offerings include MicroStation-based applications for modeling and simulation, ProjectWise for project delivery, AssetWise for asset and network performance, Seequent's leading geoprofessional software portfolio, and the iTwin platform for infrastructure digital twins. Bentley Systems employs more than 4,500 colleagues and generates annual revenues of approximately $1 billion in 186 countries.
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