Senior Event Project Manager

The Senior Event Project Manager oversees the overall event strategy, planning, and execution, ensuring consistent brand representation across various events and VIP visits.  

This role exists to manage and standardize processes for events, reduce inefficiencies, and align expectations to support local site teams effectively and ensure excellent event experience, brand storyline throughout and smooth execution.  

Principal Accountabilities and Job Duties:

• Establishes and implements strategies for site openings, ceremonies, and cornerstone events ensuring consistent brand representation
• Assembles and guides ad hoc teams from Communications, Marketing, Corporate Planning to ensure efficient collaboration and execution 
• Oversees budgeting, negotiations, and vendor management to align with financial goals.
• Guarantees uniform outputs and high standards by maintaining reliable attendee experiences
• Crafts storylines and materials for presentations to align messaging with brand values
• Analyses event outcomes, collects data, and implements improvements for future events.
• Shares and implements best practices across regions to enhance event quality and reach.
• Establishes relationships with preferred vendors for cost-effective event solutions. Experience managing event agencies, consultants, and vendor contracts globally.
• Frees local resources, allowing site teams to focus on core business operations
• Acts as an input provider for marketing events involving executive leadership
• Managing stakeholders, their expectations, what success looks like from their perspective and managing their expectation against the desired outcome or success criteria. Steering / Internal / External / VIP / Gov officials / Royalty etc. 
• Ensure proactive risk assessments, contingency plans, and crisis management protocols for high-visibility or complex events (e.g., VIP visits, site launches). Ensures alignment with Legal, EH&S, and Security
• Define objectives, success metrics, collects stakeholder feedback, and deliver post event report
• All other job duties as assigned.

Minimum Education and Experience Required:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Event Management, Communications, Marketing, or related fields. 
• 8+ years in either consultancy, event project management roles, or project management with communications responsibility. 
• Demonstrated experience managing large-scale, complex, or regulated events (e.g., site openings, ministerial visits, investor days).
• Experience managing event agencies, consultants, and vendor contracts globally. 

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Expertise in event planning, negotiation, storytelling, and cross-functional collaboration. 
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills across senior leadership and matrixed teams. 
• Ability to lead cross-functional projects without direct authority; comfort in a matrixed environment. 
• Familiarity with project management tools  
• An ability to deliver the outcome, demonstrating the need to find a way. Leading teams without needing direction instead, work to find a solution.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and manage through a project using established project management and change management tools and technics. Familiarity with leading using project management tools
• This position will be based in Hillerød, Denmark or North Carolina, USA, and will pay within a salary range which may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

FUJIFILM Biotechnologies is an industry-leading Biologics Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) with locations in Hillerød, Denmark, Teesside, UK, RTP, North Carolina and College Station, Texas, USA. We use our skills, dedication, and ambition to enable impact for the world’s most innovative biotech and biopharma companies reimagining healthcare’s potential. We work across the entire lifecycle of our customers’ products – enabling success throughout. Every cure, vaccine, biologic, and advancement we contribute to starts with our people and our passion. We fuel one another’s passion, help accelerate progress, expand capabilities, strengthen innovation, and improve processes to improve lives.

We aim to foster a collaborative, innovative and rewarding environment, where diverse perspectives and people come together united by a common purpose and shared values. We pursue our fullest potential as individual contributors and team members. We strive to be the employer of choice and offer a competitive compensation and benefit package.

FUJIFILM Biotechnologies (FDB) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identify or any other protected class.

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