Marketing and Events Senior Associate FTC

Your role

The Marketing & Event Senior Associate will support in the execution of the marketing strategy across our events portfolio, including but not limited to: owning event administration, trade show execution as well as the running of internal and external events in a virtual, live or hybrid environment. The role will support the marketing team in all marketing efforts specialising in the event activity whilst delivering a distinctive brand experience. This will involve working in partnership with the country teams as well as co-ordinating with the regional and global marketing teams.  Activities will cover a broad range of areas including research, digital tools, events, and content. 

What you'll do

Event coordination

• Support on liaising with global, regional & country marketing colleagues, as well as Segment colleagues to execute on event strategy for the region.
• Be a key member of the global events team – build effective relationships with peers in all regions, take and share best practices and continuously raise the level of our event participation.
• Liaise with key conference partners and team members (internal and external) to ensure successful conference execution; build and maintain good relationships by establishing trust and a working partnership.
• Manage admin around proposals, purchase orders, contracting and terms and conditions for suppliers.
• Plan, organise and execute the production of virtual sessions from scheduling, recording, quality checks to delivery.
• Support country marketing teams on the execution of webinars and virtual events.
• Support and manage elements of the full calendar year of activity including research, logistics, shipping, and onsite support.
• Manage execution across in-person conferences/trade shows.
• Supporting the Digital Realty brand in all aspects of the company's marketing efforts.
• Provide general marketing administrative support as necessary which may include organising meetings, arranging travel, processing expense reports, tracking budgets, calendaring etc.
• Coordinating with Social Media Manager on social promotion for events.
• Managing branded items and giveaways.
• Maintain the conference and events calendar.
• Support on coordinating creative requests through to completion and coordinating with outside agencies, art services, printers, etc.
• Reporting on lead generation and KPIs.
• Execute pre and post event demand generation activity utilising marketing automation system. 
• Close management of the event budget with support of Senior Manager.

Demand Generation and Pipeline Acceleration

• Where explicitly tied to an event, lead the demand generation activities to drive pipeline and increase awareness of the Digital Realty brand – generating demand across Europe.

What you’ll need

• Experience within technology industry preferable
• Exceptional planning & organisational skills; creation and follow-up of plans & setting priorities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills 
• Creative & innovative with a strong attention to detail
• Motivated team player with desire to learn and grow
• A demonstrated ability to prioritise and manage multiple assignments in a fast-paced environment to meet deadlines with efficiency and accuracy.
• Experience with marketing automation systems, Marketo bring preferable
• Willingness to learn and an interest in developing a career in marketing
• Self-Starter with great problem-solving skills
• Strong technology skills, e.g. MS Office 
• Ability to thrive in high pressure situations

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Marketing
• 3+ years event management experience
• Proven event operational skills 

A bit about us

Digital Realty bringsc data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company's global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx™) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 25+ countries on six continents. To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

What we can offer you

Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers. Join us and you’ll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team, you’ll get to work with people from different business areas, challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. We’ll also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us. This is an exciting time to join our business so apply now and make your mark on our future.