Manager Corporate Events

Veeva Systems is a mission-driven organization and pioneer in industry cloud, helping life sciences companies bring therapies to patients faster. As one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in history, we surpassed $3B in revenue in our last fiscal year with extensive growth potential ahead.

At the heart of Veeva are our values: Do the Right Thing, Customer Success, Employee Success, and Speed. We're not just any public company – we made history in 2021 by becoming a public benefit corporation

(PBC), legally bound to balancing the interests of customers, employees, society, and investors.

As a Work Anywhere company, we support your flexibility to work from home or in the office, so you can thrive in your ideal environment.

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, committed to making a positive impact on its customers, employees, and communities.

The Role

This is a key contributor role with Veeva’s North America marketing team. The role is primarily responsible for food and beverage (F&B) planning and management for large-scale internal and customer events within the U.S.

The successful candidate must be able to focus on the pre-planning and execution side of food and beverage for events, be an operational contributor for all day-to-day processes, manage and reconcile F&B budgets, support execution of tactics, activities, and other details.

Secondary responsibilities will include supporting and/or managing other event planning workstreams as defined by manager.

Must be a team player working collaboratively with marketing and cross-functional teams.

What You’ll Do: Planning and onsite executions of food and beverage management for our two US customer Summits, and internal Field Kickoff (2,500 - 3,500 attendees depending the event)

• Develops F&B menus for Veeva programs including any ancillary meetings associated with the core program
• Review attendee projections/estimates and works with Veeva marketing ops team on headcount estimates
• Responsible for finalizing F&B counts for each program element
• Submits menus and headcount to venue and works closely with the venue on any special requests
• Manages venue to Veeva expected service levels defined in our events best practices documentation
• Manages and maintains Veeva F&B planning spreadsheets and planning docs
• Ensures flawless execution, quality of service, and timely delivery of all necessary components and materials for each event
• Short- and long-range planning and proactive management and prioritization of timelines and priorities

Developing YoY cost per head analysis against each program component that you manage and each line of business/service offering so that we can make informed decisions on size/location of events

Reconciles and closes out final billings with venues

Secondary: Support and/or manage other program workstreams as directed

Requirements: 5+ years experience in corporate events managing major workstreams

• 3+ years experience in corporate events managing food and beverage
• 1+ year experience working on large scale events in a convention center
• Thrives in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment
• Proven excellence participating in cross-team program management
• Highly organized with superior attention to detail
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills
• Proven ability to build relationships with other teams and across all levels
• Self-starter, proactive, and critical thinker
• Ability to travel 20-25%
• Nice to Have: Experience in enterprise software or SaaS
• Interviewing with Veeva: We value your time and believe in a transparent hiring process. Here is the process you can expect.
• Follow the application process and submit your resume.
• Within 3 days, you will receive a link to a personality assessment administered by a third party.
• Once you complete the assessment, our team will review your full application package and follow up via email with our decision.
• If moving to the interview stage, the process is as follows: A conversation with the hiring manager
• A practical case exercise
• A final conversation with our group's Senior Leader.
• Once all interviews are complete, the manager will be in touch with a final decision.