About Scout

Scout is the sourcing and supplier engagement platform trusted by procurement teams to streamline their process, manage a unified pipeline of projects, and collaborate with stakeholders and suppliers. Scout’s powerful platform drives profitability and makes enterprise commerce faster, less risky, and more transparent, giving CPOs the tools they need to transform their organizations.

Over 250 global brands trust Scout to provide greater visibility across stakeholders and suppliers, centralize core processes, measure effectiveness, and make procurement teams crazy successful by delivering better business outcomes. Our simple, effective interface enables companies to streamline supplier selection, manage vendors, centralize data, and make more informed purchasing decisions, faster.

Scout’s growing Events team helps connect Scout and our unique mission directly with our customers through a regular cadence of compelling, thought-provoking, career-accelerating, and (importantly) fun events. A key engine in our demand generation and customer success strategy, our marketing events help us share our vision for strategic sourcing, provide procurement teams with the opportunity to talk about their trade, and spread the Scout brand worldwide. We’re looking for a creative, proactive, and dynamic Marketing Events Manager to help us expand and accelerate our trade show presence.

As Scout’s newest Marketing Events Manager, you’ll plan and execute third party events and trade shows that build our brand awareness and accelerate pipeline development for sales. You’ll work directly with marketing and sales leadership to execute on the strategy for our event investments to drive programs that increase engagement and interest.We’re looking for a new team member with strong organizational skills who can be ultimately responsible for managing competitive event analysis, pre-event logistics, on-site set-up and successful execution. You’ll also lead the development and delivery of operational KPIs, post-event followup, sales materials, and event success training. And of course, you will play a part in SPARK, our annual customer conference!

If this sounds like you, we’d love to meet you and learn more about your path, and how Scout can help you meet your work and career goals. Check out the details below, and please introduce yourself.

Where You'll Contribute To Our Success:

• Own 100% of the project management and execution of third party events including conferences and trade shows. This includes the marketing campaign, content/presentations, logistics, staffing, booth production, budget, data cleansing/tracking and sales enablement.
• Work closely with the Scout Marketing team and our Sales team to plan, strategize, and commit to a full calendar of industry and vertical events worldwide.
• Raise our execution standards across third party events and trade shows to ensure that the Scout voice, value proposition, and attention to detail shine through in every aspect of our presence.
• Work with customers and internal experts to find the most exciting, unexpected, and impactful stories from our diverse customer base to feature at these events.
• Track and analyze performance and engagement metrics to measure event alignment to company initiatives and growth goals, and recommend changes based on your insights.
• Work alongside the Marketing team to deliver on the planning and execution of our annual user conference, SPARK.

Qualifications:

• Minimum 2-3 years’ experience in a Marketing Events Manager role.
• You are fluent in digital marketing tools like Marketo, Asana, Salesforce and Google Suite.
• You can manage the entire scope of a trade show program from start to finish (from coming up with creative campaigns to enabling sales.)
• A top-notch communicator across departments, audiences, and vendors.
• You eat details for breakfast and your name comes up under “resourceful” in the dictionary.
• You’re a self starter, creative, enterprising, high-energy, and calm in the face of a storm.
• Experience in the world of enterprise B2B SaaS is a definite plus.

For an events professional, there’s no better environment to advance your career, develop your skills, and make an impact along the way. Scout’s customers – brands like Airbnb, Levi's, Adobe, Smuckers, and Owens Corning - will challenge you daily with fascinating technical and business problems. As you mature in this role, you’ll have the chance to work with global leaders, learn from industry mavericks, and share your perspectives (literally) on a grand stage.

**This is a full-time role based out of our San Francisco, CA headquarters with expectations of travel about 10 weeks per year. We will not consider candidates living outside of the San Francisco Bay Area/Silicon Valley.**

**Please include a resume with your submission. Applicants that do not include a resume will not be considered.**

Mission: Our mission is to make enterprise commerce faster, less risky, and more transparent.

Competition: We compete with legacy data, spreadsheets and even pen and paper. We are an intuitive, cloud-based software that helps procurement professionals source fast and make a bigger business impact.

Smart and sustainable growth: We are rapidly growing, and very intentional about planning for future growth. The money goes into the business and continues to build and bring the best product possible to market.

Benefits: Medical, dental and vision coverage. Unlimited PTO. Health Savings Accounts. 401(k) plan. Pre-tax commuter benefits. Retirement plan. Lunch twice a week. Fully stocked kitchen. We are always evaluating our options to do what we can to bring the best to our employees.

Transparency: Lots of companies say it, few of them actually live it. We live transparency every day - just ask a Scout employee to learn more.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Scout RFP provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment regardless of age, ancestry, color, disability (mental and physical), exercising the right to family care and medical leave, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, political affiliation, race, religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

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