Strategic Events Specialist (EMEA)

Join Abnormal, a fast-growing company in the cybersecurity industry. As a Strategic Events Specialist for EMEA, you will play a key role in creating impactful experiences at our events. You will manage event logistics, coordinate with external stakeholders, and support budget tracking. This is a hands-on role that requires strong program management skills and the ability to work cross-functionally.

You're someone who thrives on a great project plan, keeping deadlines tracked and on target, and managing multiple stakeholders at once across different time zones

About Abnormal Security

Most of all, you care about the craft. The details other people don't notice are exactly the ones you fix

You know a great event is not a logistics exercise. It's a story told in three dimensions — one that brings a brand to life, earns trust with prospects and customers, arms the sales team, and produces measurable business impact

Responsibilities

• Support the strategic events programs across EMEA, including major third-party events, flagship first-party events, and high-profile executive events.
• Take full ownership of numerous projects, such as creative tasks, room blocks, catering orders, swag orders, staff schedules, promotional assets, and much more.
• Coordinate invitation strategy, registration, attendee communications and internal promotion so the right people show up, market by market.
• Confidence working cross-functionally with Sales, SDR/BDR and Marketing stakeholders, and translating event activity into commercial outcomes

Requirements

• Your communication is second to none, and you're always thinking one step ahead when it comes to delivering an event, pre-event and on-site. You understand the importance of an event running smoothly, and love learning as you go to optimise for the future
• Multi-market EMEA experience and the ability to work across different time zones and regions
• Experience of owning established, repeatable event formats end-to-end — not just coordinating logistics for someone else's plan — with sound judgement on known procedures and a willingness to ask for guidance on new or first-of-their-kind activations
• Strong program management habits: organised, deadline-driven, and increasingly independent on routine work
• Experience running executive-level programmes (dinners, roundtables, advisory boards) as well as larger conference/trade show activations
• Willingness to travel roughly 40–50%, mainly across EMEA, with some APAC and AMER travel, including evening/weekend work around live events
• Comfortable presenting event results and ROI to stakeholders using registration, pipeline and engagement data
• 2–4 years' experience in B2B events or experiential marketing, ideally within technology, SaaS, cybersecurity or enterprise software
• Budget, vendor and contract management experience across multiple concurrent workstreams
• You're equally at home building a project plan in a spreadsheet and troubleshooting a badge-printer jam at 7am. You're calm when things go sideways, direct when something isn't working, and generous with your stakeholders when it goes right
• Experience with event and marketing technology such as Asana, Allocadia, Coupa, Jifflenow, Cvent, Salesforce, Sigma, Splash, RainFocus, Claude, and Google Suite

Preferred

• Cybersecurity or enterprise software experience is a plus, not a requirement. What matters is commercial judgement, regional ownership, and exceptional execution
• An additional European language
• Familiarity with account-based marketing (ABM) principles and target-account event strategies