Marketing Events Manager

Come for the culture, grow your career and enjoy the journey

When you join PROS, you're joining a community of people who genuinely care - about their work, communities, customers, and each other. We empower our teams to be their best from anywhere, and trust that wherever you are, you're going to bring your best self and do your best work.

We take care of our people so you can focus on our customers, business priorities and the important things outside of work. We prioritize flexibility and wellbeing to help our people:

• Rest: Quarterly Recharge Days, company-wide mental health holidays to unplug

• Reset: Work Well Wednesdays, a 'quiet' day to help prioritize focused work with minimal distractions

• Recharge: Trusted Time Off (US) so you can plan for the time you need when you need it

• Reap rewards: Competitive benefits and compensation packages, including paid maternity and paternity leave, adoption and IVF benefits, baby bucks, 401(k) match, pet insurance and more

• Reach your full potential: Leadership training, dedicated people leader programs and resources, Learn and Connect cultural series, active Employee Resource Groups

We celebrate and embrace different views and ideas, and all play a role in fostering an inclusive environment that encourages and protects diversity of thought. Our inclusive culture is one of the reasons we're a Great Place to Work. Our customers tell us over and over that they ultimately choose PROS because of our people. They love our solutions, but at the end of the day, they don't choose our technology-they choose us. And that is the ultimate compliment.

We invite you to join our team and grow your career at PROS! Help us shape the future of how companies compete and win in their markets!

What you'll do:

The Marketing Events Manager will join the PROS marketing team and will fill a critical role in the planning and execution of the PROS event strategy at a variety of 3rd party industry conferences, partner-led events and PROS-hosted events and activations. This candidate is responsible for creating memorable experiences between our Go-to-Market teams, customers, prospects, partners, and industry experts with a focus on driving our pipeline growth. This is an exciting role in a fast-paced, high-tech software company in a growth industry. The right candidate will have an impressive track record of collaborating with marketing and sales teams while bringing events to life from idea to execution against ambitious goals for awareness and pipeline growth. Candidate must possess ability to professionally manage multiple projects, brainstorm with executive leaders, and manage logistics, communications, and budgets. The candidate should be an impeccable and creative marketer, with strong business skills, event management (experience with tradeshows, conferences, in-field sales events, etc.) and proven experience in helping guide the contributions of key business partners, executives, vendors, and internal support teams.

A Day in the Life of a Marketing Events Manager

• About the role:

• Assist in orchestrating and executing intentional, personalized, memorable event experiences that build community and supports PROS employees, clients, prospects, and industry leaders

• Build and execute detailed event business plans/playbook for each event to streamline practices to create efficiencies and repeatability

• Define and track goals and measurement for each event

• Innovate on event practices to drive adoption and pipeline growth - test new approaches

• Drive operational excellence while managing stakeholders

• Serve as overall project manager and coordinate resources cross-functionally and externally while managing deliverables for all resources involved

• Manage logistics, promotions, communications, and budgets

Required Qualifications

• About you:

We're looking for candidates who have a combination of the following achievements, skill sets and behaviors to be successful in this role:

• You have proven experience. 5-7 years successful marketing/events management experience, preferably in high-tech

• Strong business and sales operations understanding

• Ability to create, execute, and manage events of all sizes and audiences

• Highly developed project management skills and attention to detail

• Exceptional vendor management and negotiation skills

• Ability to analyze complex situations, make critical decisions in a timely manner, and work independently

• You're street smart and savvy. You're a self-starter and problem-solver. You're resourceful and ruthlessly pragmatic

• You're an open book. You communicate crisply. You go out of your way to be transparent in your actions and your words. You manage down, around, and up with the same enthusiasm and without playing politics. Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• You have a global mindset, with a sensitivity to and willingness to work across cultures and time zones. Willing to travel up to 50%

• Proficient in Microsoft applications, Marketo and Demandbase

Preferred Qualifications:

• You have extensive experience working with CRM Database systems (Salesforce.com) and Event Registration Tools (Cvent)
• A Bachelor's degree, preferably in marketing or communications. Additional experience in lieu of required education will be considered

Skills and Personal Characteristics:

• Ownership

• Innovation

• Care

About PROS:

PROS Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: PRO) is your company's best-kept secret for profitable growth. Viewed as a market-leader by both Gartner and IDC for its CPQ and price optimization capabilities, PROS advanced AI delivers results to the world's top brands including Cargill, Etihad, Honeywell, HP, Lenovo, Lufthansa, Siemens and more. With more than 30 million AI models, PROS award winning AI is the driving force in processing more than 2 trillion transactions per year. PROS customers report up to 96% efficiency gain, up to 5% margin improvement and up to 20% revenue lift, according to a recent ROI study. To learn more, visit www.pros.

Why PROS?

PROS culture and the truly extraordinary people who work here are at the very core of our success. We have a passion for what we do, and we won't stop until we've delivered on our promises. We're committed to the success of our customers. That's why we think harder and dream bigger - so our customers can go even further than they ever imagined possible.

This is a unique opportunity to join a company that has 30+ years of proven success with a long runway of more success.

Our people make PROS stand out from the rest. If you want to be a part of something truly extraordinary, come help us shape the future of how companies compete and win in their markets.

Work Environment:

Most work activities are performed in an office or home-office environment and require little to moderate physical exertion. Work activities may require periods of extended hours, critical deadlines and stressful situations. To successfully complete the tasks of this position, individuals must be able to communicate clearly (in writing and orally), comprehend business terminology, interpret numerical data.

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