Meetings & Events Manager

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Paddington, Westminster, London, England
Mid level
Biotech • Pharmaceutical
The Role
Responsible for planning and executing both in-person and virtual meetings while providing strategic guidance and ensuring compliance with regulations. The role includes negotiating contracts, managing budgets, and collaborating across teams to optimize efficiency and best practices.
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Job Description

General Summary:

The Meetings & Events Manager will be expected to monitor and provide guidance to Preferred Logistics Agencies (PLA) in addition to independently planning and executing a broad range of complex in-person and virtual internal and external meetings, including highly visible engagements for Senior Leadership. The role will advise stakeholders, assist in the development of meeting strategies and guide cross-functional planning teams to ensure meeting logistics and planned activities are aligned and support the overall meeting goals and objectives. The role will work collaboratively with the Global M&E Management Team to identify, build, and propose process efficiencies and best practices for the internal team and PLAs.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Leads and executes internal and external face to face and virtual meetings globally, including; venue sourcing, contract negotiations, budgeting, HCP compliance and transfer of value reporting, food & beverage, audio visual production, and on-site execution.
  • Provides strategic logistical guidance to stakeholders and cross functional planning teams by implementing support strategies and project plans, defining roles & responsibilities, timelines, and deliverables.
  • Drives contract negotiations with hotel, venue, and vendors, securing the best possible terms and cost savings for Vertex.
  • Provides superior customer service and support to C-Suite Executives and Senior Leaders on planning and execution of events.
  • Good understanding of HCP Compliance and reporting regulations and ability to identify and escalate compliance risks to the Office of Business Integrity & Ethics and Global Spend Transparency while adhering to and implementing guidelines.
  • Oversees Preferred Logistics Agencies (PLAs) on ensuring HCP compliance and transfer of value reporting, accuracy of event budget and cost savings, event materials and deliverables, excellent customer service, and flawless event execution.
  • Monitors performance and planning metrics of PLAs and provide feedback and process improvement suggestions to GM&E Management.
  • Participates in internal team projects and efficiency initiatives
  • Good understanding of industry trends including hospitality, travel, audio visual/production and technology to understand to contribute to recommendations to GM&E Management.
  • Ability to travel domestically and globally at least 30-40% of the time.

Knowledge and Skills:

  • For roles located ex-US, requires experience working in mutli-cultural settings (countries, stakeholder, languages)
  • Ability to support relationships globally within all levels of the organization
  • Strong meeting planning experience and meeting planning industry knowledge
  • Effective organization and time management skills, ability to simultaneously keep multiple projects prioritized and moving with multiple stakeholders with tight deadlines and minimal direction.
  • Developed contract negotiations skills with understanding of hotel and venue legal and business terms
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills to exchange complex meeting details and strategically guide business owners through decision making
  • Skilled in group and individual presentations to stakeholders
  • Experience working with and providing tactical guidance to Logistics Agencies
  • Ability to navigate and be successful in a fast-paced, highly-matrixed work environment
  • Committed to delivering the highest level of customer service
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office suite
  • Project management experience
  • Pharmaceutical experience
  • Supplier/vendor management experience
  • CMP and or CMM Certification (a plus but not required)
  • Prior working knowledge of Cvent Event Management software program
  • For role ex-US, fluent in English, capability in other languages strongly recommended

Education and Experience:

  • Bachelor's degree
  • Extensive experience related to meeting and event planning, or the equivalent combination of education and experience related to meeting and event planning

Flex Designation:

Hybrid-Eligible Or On-Site Eligible

Flex Eligibility Status:

In this Hybrid-Eligible role, you can choose to be designated as: 
1.    Hybrid: work remotely up to two days per week; or select
2.    On-Site: work five days per week on-site with ad hoc flexibility.

Note: The Flex status for this position is subject to Vertex’s Policy on Flex @ Vertex Program and may be changed at any time.

Company Information

Vertex is a global biotechnology company that invests in scientific innovation.

Vertex is committed to equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to a person's race, color, sex, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, marital status, or any characteristic protected under applicable law. Vertex is an E-Verify Employer in the United States. Vertex will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities, in accordance with applicable law.

Any applicant requiring an accommodation in connection with the hiring process and/or to perform the essential functions of the position for which the applicant has applied should make a request to the recruiter or hiring manager, or contact Talent Acquisition at [email protected]

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Cvent Event Management Software
MS Office
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The Company
HQ: Boston, MA
5,000 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 1989

What We Do

Vertex is a global biotechnology company that invests in scientific innovation to create transformative medicines for people with serious and life-threatening diseases.

We discovered and developed the first medicines to treat the underlying cause of cystic fibrosis (CF), a rare, life-threatening genetic disease. In addition to clinical development programs in CF, Vertex has more than a dozen ongoing research programs focused on the underlying mechanisms of other serious diseases.

Founded in 1989 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, our corporate headquarters is now located in Boston’s Innovation District, and our international headquarters is in London, United Kingdom. We currently employ approximately 3,500 people in the United States, Europe, Canada, Australia and Latin America with nearly two-thirds of our staff dedicated to research and development.

Vertex is consistently recognized as one of the industry’s top places to work by Science Magazine, The Boston Globe, Boston Business Journal and the San Diego Business Journal. Our research and medicines have also received esteemed recognitions, including the Robert J. Beall Therapeutics Development Award, the French Prix Galien and the British Pharmacological Society awards.

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