Key Skills
Job Description
What We Ask Experience in event management Strong budgeting and cost-control skills Clear communication style Event Manager: the impact you'll make Based in Amsterdam, you will collaborate with teams and partners worldwide to plan and deliver impactful events. You will take ownership of the full event lifecycle, ensuring smooth execution, strong stakeholder alignment, and successful outcomes. Your Responsibilities Include Leading end-to-end event planning, including timelines, agendas, deliverables, and follow-up actions. Acting as the central link between marketing, sales, and business line managers to align objectives and drive results. Managing speakers, partners, and sponsors while ensuring strong visibility and engagement. Developing and improving event processes, templates, documentation, and best practices. Managing event budgets, costs, and evaluations to continuously improve event impact. Event Manager: what your role entails Deliver operational excellence for all physical and digital events. Identify and secure venues that align with event objectives. Manage suppliers, venues, and production partners. Contribute to event design, experience flow, and production decisions. Oversee all logistics, including accommodation, catering, signage, staffing, attendee experience, production, AV requirements, and on-site execution. Event Manager: what you bring You are an experienced event professional with a strong combination of organizational, project management, and communication skills. You have experience creating and delivering impactful B2B events and are comfortable working with international teams, partners, and stakeholders. You combine creativity with a structured approach and are able to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment. Hard Skills Excellent command of English, both written and spoken, with experience in event management, preferably within B2B, SaaS, or FinTech environments. Experience supporting conferences, customer events, roundtables, sponsor activations, and international events. Strong project management skills, including planning, scope management, budgeting, cost control, and managing suppliers, venues, and production partners. Experience with CRM and marketing tools; familiarity with HubSpot is a plus, including event campaigns, landing pages, email workflows, tracking, and reporting. Strong attention to detail with excellent organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple event projects simultaneously. Soft Skills Strong collaborator who works effectively with Sales, Field Marketing, and business line leaders and can influence cross-functional and senior stakeholders. Clear communicator with a proactive, creative, and solution-oriented mindset. Analytical thinker who can interpret event data and translate insights into improvements and business impact. Comfortable working in a dynamic, changing environment with a high level of ownership and independence. Willing and able to travel internationally and work across different time zones.
Core Responsibilities
Lead the end-to-end planning and execution of physical and digital B2B events, managing everything from budgets and venues to speakers and logistics. Act as the central link between marketing, sales, and business leaders to align objectives and drive impactful outcomes.
Requirements
Experienced event professional with a strong background in B2B, SaaS, or FinTech environments and proficiency in English. Must possess strong organizational skills and experience with CRM tools like HubSpot to manage international stakeholders and complex event lifecycles.
About Topicus
Industry: IT Services and IT Consulting
Company size: 1,001-5,000 employees
Making a difference to society drives us. Truly making an impact with IT. And while we think it's the most normal thing in the world, it does make working for Topicus very, very different. Every day, millions of people use our products. - IT solutions that genuinely benefit healthcare, education, the financial sector and the social domain. In all the areas where our tech know-how can help, we try to give citizens control, increase their self-reliance and reduce their vulnerability. To this end, we transform complex issues and technology into user-friendly tech platforms and products. We do this from Deventer, our hometown, where we are developing our own Topicus Campus, but also from Zwolle, Utrecht, Dodewaard, Groningen, 's Hertogenbosch, Leiden, Wageningen, Gouda and even in Vietnam and Romania. But our ambitions extend even further. We explore markets inside and outside of Europe. And thanks to over 1,000 'Topicans', a merger with Total Specific Solutions (TSS) and a listing on the TSX, we have the innovative drive and strength to realise our growth ambitions. Our aim is to become smarter every day. To get better and to develop our skills. We do this through our Development Compass, the Topicus University, guilds, the coaching pool, the Topicus Technology Master and great events. As we serve multiple markets, we have access to a wealth of knowledge, experience and tools. We like sharing our expertise also with people outside our company! Whether it's through our annual developer conference TopiConf, meet-ups, guest lectures or our social content. Check for yourself what our Topicans have to say!