Join ABBYY and be part of a team that celebrates your unique work style. With flexible work options, a supportive team, and rewards that reflect your value, you can focus on what matters most – driving your growth, while fuelling ours.
Our commitment to respect, transparency, and simplicity means you can trust us to always choose to do the right thing.
As a trusted partner for intelligent automation, we solve highly complex problems for our enterprise customers and put their information to work to transform the way they do business. Innovation and excellence run through our veins, and you will work with experts who are creating market-leading technologies, using Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, and an advanced and sophisticated tech stack.
The EMEA Event and Partner Marketing Manager is a dual role responsible for both event marketing management and a limited number of partner events in EMEA. The focus is on event management - from competitive intelligence, budgeting, creative planning, organisation and reporting to lead management and communications and reporting. This role is central to building ABBYY's reputation and awareness and not to forget Pipeline through innovative, engaging events utilizing strategic partnerships.
Job Responsibilities:
Event Management
- Develop and Execute Events: Plan and execute ABBYY’s in-person and virtual events, including webinars and reference huddles.
- Innovative Event Development: Create engaging events that drive revenue, increase awareness, and engage clients and prospects.
- Technology Integration: Leverage technology platforms and integrate them with internal CRM systems.
- Project Coordination: Maintain a single event plan, coordinating all involved parties internally and externally.
- Event Standardization: Ensure high-quality content, speaker quality, PR, social media coverage, and partner engagement across all events.
- Reference Content: Manage “Reference Huddles” videos and webinars to maintain “always on” content throughout the sales cycle.
- Vendor Management: Work with event agencies and logistics providers to ensure smooth execution.
- Competitive Analysis: Monitor competitor events and adjust strategies accordingly.
- Speaker Management: Oversee speaker selection, training, and curation.
- On-Site Coordination: Provide on-site support or arrange for on-site personnel as needed.
- ROI Management: Partner with Field Marketing and Sales to ensure events meet revenue, retention, and reputation goals.
- Logistics Management: Oversee event logistics from concept to post-event, including attendee registrations, email communications, and budget management.
- KPI Measurement: Set and measure KPIs to ensure a 15x ROI on events.
- Best Practices Adherence: Stay current with event planning best practices, technology, and design trends.
- Vendor Relations: Build relationships with vendors to implement creative and logistical aspects of virtual events.
- Process Improvement: Identify and create process improvements for event management.
- Brand Presence: Maximize ABBYY’s brand presence at events through consistent identity, speaking opportunities, and digital innovations.
- Client Experience: Deliver premium client experiences at various events, including roundtables, conferences, and hospitality events.
- Negotiation and Relationship Management: Negotiate venue and sponsorship deals and manage vendor relationships.
- Resource Efficiency: Drive resource and cost efficiencies through global processes, documentation, and reporting.
- Digital Content Creation: Support digital and video content creation at events and manage post-event communication to enhance customer loyalty and satisfaction.
- Sustainability: Improve the environmental footprint of ABBYY events through best practice sustainability efforts.
Partner Marketing
- Top Partner Tactics: In this role, the focus is on collaborating with Channel / partner leadership, assign demand budget allocation and work with partner, alliances to execute collaborative marketing tactics, programs and Campaigns.
Job Requirements:
Experience:
- 5+ years of experience in producing virtual, hybrid- and in-person events.
- Proven success in generating leads via client/prospect engagement programs.
Education:
- Degree in marketing with proven experience in Event management
or several years in depth equivalent experience in event management at agencies.
Skills:
- Excellent communication skills (spoken and written).
- Experience with event tools like SalesForce, MS office, ZoomInfo, MS Teams, Zoom, Cvent, ON24, Socialive, GlobalMeet, Webex.
- Proficiency in French and English - German and Spanish is a plus.
Other:
- The possibility to visit the Paris office at least once a week.
Additionally, you will enjoy some of our local benefits such as:
- Transportation Allowance for Non-Remote Employees Using Public Transportation
- Meal Allowance: Pluxee Voucher
- RTT Days (Réduction du Temps de Travail, or Reduced Working Time)
At ABBYY you will:
Love how you work
- We provide remote and hybrid working options to fit all lifestyles.
- We use flexible hours across most of our teams to allow you to find your own definition of balance.
- Encouraging a culture of giving, we provide two paid volunteering days off every year so you can take time to contribute to the causes you care about.
- To ensure your family is cared for, we offer paid parental leave in all our locations.
Love whom you work with
- We are a global team of 800+ colleagues, spread across 15 countries on four continents.
- With 30+ nationalities and ages ranging from 21 to 80, our workforce reflects the world.
- Innovation and excellence run through our veins.
- Our teams gather the expertise which has garnered ABBYY more than 140 technology patents.
- We are guided by the values of respect, transparency, and simplicity. "Team Environment" is in the top three highest-scoring drivers of engagement across all of our departments.
Love what you work on
- We are a company with more than 30 years of experience in the technology market.
- Over 10,000 customers trust ABBYY, including many Fortune 500 ones, with names such as DHL, Johnson & Johnson, FDA, DMV, PwC, KeyBank, Spotify, and H&R BLOCK in our client portfolio.
- ABBYY has modernized the way companies leverage their data in documents by creating the first low-code/no-code Intelligent Document Processing platform.
- Our Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision Technologies, and a Marketplace built with AI, can transform any document in any process.
- Top Analyst firms recognize ABBYY's market leadership, including Gartner, Everest PEAK Matrix ® Assessment, ISG Intelligent Automation Lens, and NelsonHall, amongst others.
ABBYY is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that values the strength that diversity brings to the workplace. To learn more about our commitment to Diversity and Inclusion, check out the careers section on our website.
