Event and Partnership Marketing Associate
Xeneta
Administration, Marketing & Communications, Sales & Business Development
London, UK
Posted on Dec 8, 2024
Location: Oslo, Norway or London, UK
At Xeneta, we believe there is untapped potential for everyone in the shipping industry to systematically learn from both individual and collective efforts. Our vision is to transform how freight is bought and sold. With extensive international experience in the logistics industry, we understand the challenges posed by high volatility and lack of transparency in the ocean and air freight markets. By merging our logistics expertise with technology, we offer solutions through our freight rate benchmarking and market analytics platform, which provides the world's largest dataset of real-time and on-demand ocean and air freight rates.
We are seeking a highly organized and proactive Events Associate to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing a range of events, from trade shows, round tables and webinars. You will play a crucial role in delivering engaging experiences for clients, partners, and prospects, ensuring events are executed seamlessly and align with Xeneta's business objectives.
- Department
- Marketing
- Employment Type
- Permanent - Full Time
- Location
- Oslo (NO) or London (UK)
- Workplace type
- Hybrid
- Reporting To
- Justine Gillen
Key Responsibilities
- Plan and execute self-hosted events, trade shows, webinars, and partner events, ensuring all logistics, timelines, and budgets are effectively managed.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define event goals, develop event plans, and ensure successful execution.
- Coordinate event communications, including pre-event promotion, on-site collateral, and post-event follow-ups.
- Work closely with vendors and external partners to manage event services such as venues, catering, and A/V requirements.
- Oversee event registration and attendee management, ensuring an excellent experience for all participants.
- Manage event lead capture processes, collaborating with sales and marketing teams to track and nurture leads.
- Analyse event performance, gathering insights to optimize future initiatives.
- Stay updated on industry trends to suggest innovative approaches to event execution.
Tools Used
- Salesforce
- HubSpot
Desired Profile and Experience
- 2+ years of experience in event planning, project management, or a related role, preferably in a B2B environment.
- Exceptional organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple events and tasks simultaneously.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills to work effectively with internal teams, clients, and vendors.
- Creative problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to delivering results.
- Familiarity with marketing automation tools and CRM platforms is a plus.
- A strong interest in logistics, technology, or related industries is advantageous.
What We Offer
- You will be a part of a growing company that is currently redefining a multi-million dollar industry through a period of unprecedented upheaval. Your work will have significant impact on this.
- You will work together with highly motivated colleagues who are curious to learn something new from you, and also to teach you what they are good at.
- You will enjoy our generous vacation plan: 5-10 extra paid days off around public holidays throughout the year, in addition to 5 weeks of paid vacation.
- You can educate yourself during work hours: you can spend several hours each month attending courses, reading books, getting involved in the product management community. We will cover courses, books and conference fees for you.
- We value work-life balance, and we want to make sure you can spend quality time with your family or enjoy your hobbies when your work-day is over.
- We have flexible working hours (core time with meetings is 10:00 to 15:00, the rest is up to you) and you can work remotely for extended periods of time when needed.
- We will help you grow your career: our managers will help identify areas of improvement for you, either if you want to grow into a specialist in your field, or if you want to eventually go into leadership / management direction.
Why You Will Love It Here
- Our Impact: We’re category leaders digitalizing the way ocean and air freight is procured bringing on-demand actionable data to all industry stakeholders. We’re moving fast.
- Our Technology: Deep data analytics and integrations coupled with a scalable, sleek and beautiful user interface.
- Our Customers: Big companies like Nestle, Unilever, L’Oréal, Coca-Cola, Volvo, and many others.
- Our Team: Shipping, consulting and tech all-stars on our roster.
- Our Values: We are one. Variety and fairness. Transparency builds trust. Modernization through data.
Xeneta is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
We look forward to hearing from you!
About Xeneta
At Xeneta, we have been on a mission to transform the ocean and air freight markets since 2012. We are doing this by building a data platform that provides intelligence to the very opaque industry of buying and selling containerized freight. Now, Xeneta is the leading freight rate benchmarking and market analytics platform—creating transparency and empowering our customers to make data-driven decisions.
Our customers include big brands such as Kuehne+Nagel, Coca-Cola Company, Unilever, Pfizer, Flexport, L'Oreál, Nestlé, and Volvo.
Headquartered in Oslo, with offices in Hamburg and Jersey City and employees from over 60 different countries, we are a truly international company that celebrates diversity. We’re growing at a fast pace, helped in part by our latest investment round where APAX Digital invested $80M, and we are continuously searching for top talent and partners to join us on our mission.
Our Hiring Process
Stage 1:
HR Interview
Stage 2:
Hiring Manager Interview
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