Marketing Events Manager

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**Marketing Events Manager**:
Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

**Job category**: Marketing

**Job ID**: 126116-en_US

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**Job summary**:
As APAC Event Marketing Manager, your primary responsibility is to develop strategies and lead a team of event marketing managers to execute a wide variety of virtual and inperson regional acquire and high touch customer events that deliver against business objectives, financial targets, ROI, advance the NetApp's brand, products, and services. Your events will create brand awareness generate leads and pipeline as well as position NetApp as a thought-leader through both industry and NetApp led activities. Including roundtables, tradeshows, summits, product launches, receptions, dinners, parties, sporting events, music concerts, award shows and experiential activations, you will create an experience from start-to-finish. You will own and drive the discovery, design, development, delivery and post event reporting and budget reconciliation. You will actively manage end-to-end project, budget, and timeline (including event logistics, financial management, fabrication / graphic/ production timelines, vendor timelines, creative deliverables)

You thrive with cross-department collaboration, are highly organized as well as creative and have hands-on approach with your event management style. You enjoy working in a dynamic and global environment.

You will work closely with our cross functional teams to plan and execute events at the highest level and will continuously raise the bar on content and the customer experience with the goal of educating new and existing customers. You will form a strong relationship with our internal marketing and sales stakeholders to contribute to the program strategy and planning APAC Event Marketing demands creativity and energy combined with attention to detail and an ability to multitask while working in a fast-moving environment.

**Job requirements**:

- Work cohesively with event marketing team and cross-functional key stakeholders to strategize, plan and execute regional acquire and high touch customer events.
- Develop clear vision, goals and measurable objectives for the North event marketing team.
- Drive accountability across high-performing team of direct reports and agencies.
- Drive event production from discovery and objective setting to creative inception and development, pre-show production management, onsite delivery and through post show production and wrap up.
- Concept development, budget formation, team coordination, timeline management, presentation writing and delivery of presentations.
- Maintain accuracy and accountability of event budget.
- Provide functionality improvements to day-to-day processes, bring new ideas and concepts to event programs.
- Align event activities with business priorities across stakeholder groups, including interfacing directly with sales leadership and sales teams.
- Drive communications and planning with global/regional sales teams, especially around account targeting for events.
- Manage APAC event relationships at appropriate level and act as a key point of contact.
- Contribute to APAC event strategy and planning including regular calls and communication.
- Source special experience locations, venues and vendors across various cities and regions across the globe.
- Create and maintain project plan for each phase with resource plan, defined milestones and associated tasks, and timeline.
- Manage vendor activity and relationships (ensuring effective communications, selection, quotes/orders, PO/invoice processing, general management, onsite load-in/show planning, etc and lead areas onsite.
- Qualify all production vendors to ensure they meet NetApp standards while exceeding company expectations.
- Manage all logistics and experien