Corporate Events Specialist, EMEA
Ireland · Remote · 2-4 years experience · Remote · Posted Oct 9, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 2-4 years experience
- Workplace
- Remote
- Location
- Ireland · Remote
About the role
- Abnormal is seeking a Corporate Events Specialist, EMEA to support strategic events programs across the region, including major third-party events, flagship first-party events, and high-profile executive events.
- This hands-on individual contributor role involves running established event formats independently, managing multiple stakeholders across different time zones, and contributing to overall team execution.
Responsibilities
- Support all event logistics end to end and take full ownership of numerous projects, such as creative tasks, room blocks, catering orders, swag orders, staff schedules, and promotional assets.
- Coordinate with external stakeholders, such as venues, agencies, event organisers, hotels, and couriers, and help source agencies, venues, production partners, and suppliers.
- Assist with run-of-shows, timelines, and contingency plans across multiple concurrent events and markets.
- Coordinate invitation strategy, registration, attendee communications, and internal promotion.
- Support EMEA strategic event mapping and calendar planning, prioritising investment against pipeline and account-engagement goals.
- Build relationships with Regional Revenue Marketing, Sales, SDR/BDR, Customer Marketing, Product, Sales Engineering, Partner/Alliance Marketing, and Brand/Creative across regions and time zones.
- Support budget tracking for owned events, suggest alternative cost-effective ways of doing things, and handle budget administration including raising purchase orders, submitting invoices, and updating budget management tools.
- Lead on-site at your own events, train other on-site team members, coordinate and direct temporary or contract event staff, and troubleshoot in real time.
- Handle post-event administration, including list uploads, sending post-event reports, running post-event retrospectives, and building repeatable regional playbooks.
- Ensure tight alignment with regional teams to ensure full ROI of events is realized by sharing regular lead status update reports.
Requirements
- 2–4 years' experience in B2B events or experiential marketing, ideally within technology, SaaS, cybersecurity, or enterprise software.
- Experience of owning established, repeatable event formats end-to-end with sound judgement on known procedures.
- Experience running executive-level programmes (dinners, roundtables, advisory boards) as well as larger conference/trade show activations.
- Multi-market EMEA experience and the ability to work across different time zones and regions.
- Strong program management habits: organised, deadline-driven, and increasingly independent on routine work.
- Budget, vendor, and contract management experience across multiple concurrent workstreams.
- Confidence working cross-functionally with Sales, SDR/BDR, and Marketing stakeholders, and translating event activity into commercial outcomes.
- Comfortable presenting event results and ROI to stakeholders using registration, pipeline, and engagement data.
- Willingness to travel roughly 40–50%, mainly across EMEA, with some APAC and AMER travel, including evening/weekend work around live events.
Preferred qualifications
- Cybersecurity or enterprise software experience
- Experience with event and marketing technology such as Asana, Allocadia, Coupa, Jifflenow, Cvent, Salesforce, Sigma, Splash, RainFocus, Claude, and Google Suite
- An additional European language
- Familiarity with account-based marketing (ABM) principles and target-account event strategies
Workplace
- Willingness to travel roughly 40–50%, mainly across EMEA, with some APAC and AMER travel
Skills
- Asana
- Allocadia
- Coupa
- Jifflenow
- Cvent
- Salesforce
- Sigma
- Splash
- RainFocus
- Claude
- Google Suite
