United Kingdom · Events Experiential Marketing · Director/VP (16-20 years)

Director, Global Event Technology

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  • Experience bandDirector/VP (16-20 years)
  • Reports toVP, Experiential Marketing & Technology
  • UK framework levelUsually a director, accountable for a division and its numbers

Also advertised as VP, Event Solutions · Head of Experiential Technology · Global Lead, Event Platforms

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1What this role really is

This isn't just about making sure the Wi-Fi works at a conference; it's about defining the entire technological backbone for our global events. You'll be the one shaping how we use tech to connect with our audience, drive business results, and frankly, make our events unforgettable. Think big picture: platform strategy, vendor partnerships, and how all our event data talks to the wider business systems. You're not just supporting events; you're driving their future.

2What you'd actually use

The tools this job runs on, and how well you'd need to know each one.

Event Management Platforms (e.g., Cvent, Bizzabo, Hopin)Strategic

Leading platform selection (RFP process), negotiating enterprise contracts, defining data governance policies across the platform, influencing vendor product roadmaps.

Virtual & Hybrid Platforms (e.g., ON24, Webex Events, Zoom Events)Strategic

Developing the company's global hybrid event model, evaluating platform capabilities against strategic goals for digital engagement, overseeing production standards.

CRM & Data Sync (e.g., Salesforce, HubSpot)Architect

Designing the end-to-end data flow for the entire event lifecycle, working with RevOps to ensure event data attribution is accurate, defining integration strategies.

Project & Portfolio Management (e.g., Asana, Monday.com, Smartsheet)Strategic

Implementing and optimising the PM tool for the entire events department to improve visibility and efficiency, overseeing the portfolio of tech projects.

Business Intelligence & Analytics Tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI)Advanced

Defining key performance indicators for event technology, overseeing the creation of executive-level dashboards, interpreting complex data to inform strategic decisions.

3What you get to decide, and how that grows

Power in a job isn't your title. It's what you're allowed to decide. Here's how it grows as you move up.

The choiceComing inWhere you are nowThe step above
Event Technology Roadmap & StrategyFollows established roadmap, escalates any proposed deviations.Proposes minor adjustments to roadmap for specific projects, seeks approval from Senior Technologist.Designs and recommends workstream-specific tech strategies, consults Director on significant changes.
Budget Allocation & Vendor SelectionOperates within pre-approved project budgets, flags potential overruns to supervisor.Manages project-specific budgets up to £10K, recommends vendors for routine tools.Manages workstream budgets up to £50K, recommends preferred vendors for specific solutions, negotiates terms for smaller contracts.
Team Hiring & DevelopmentNo hiring authority, provides feedback on peer performance.No hiring authority, provides informal guidance to new joiners.Mentors 0-2 junior team members, provides input on performance reviews.

4How you'll be judged

The scoreboard, honestly: the hard targets, how often each one is actually looked at, and the quiet human signals that never make it onto a dashboard.

Event Technology ROI
The return on investment for our overall event technology spend, looking at cost savings, operational efficiencies, and attributed business value (e.g., pipeline generated, customer retention).
Target · Achieve a minimum 3:1 ROI on event tech investments annually.

After implementing a new global virtual platform, we reduced per-attendee tech costs by 20% while increasing engagement metrics by 15%, leading to a £2M increase in attributed pipeline, demonstrating a strong ROI.

Platform Consolidation & Optimisation
Reducing the number of disparate event technology platforms and optimising existing licences to drive cost efficiencies and improve data flow.
Target · Reduce primary event tech vendors by 20% within 18 months; achieve 90% utilisation of enterprise platform features.

Successfully migrated three regional event platforms onto our global enterprise solution, saving £500K in annual licence fees and streamlining data integration processes.

Event Data Quality & Speed to CRM
The accuracy, completeness, and speed at which event-generated data (e.g., attendee registrations, session attendance, lead scans) is integrated into our CRM and marketing automation systems.
Target · Achieve 98% data accuracy for key event fields; reduce lead-to-CRM sync time from 48 hours to 4 hours post-event.

Implemented a new data integration strategy that cut lead processing time by 90% for our flagship conference, allowing sales to follow up on hot leads within hours, not days.

Strategic Initiative Delivery
The successful planning, execution, and adoption of new event technology capabilities or major platform upgrades as defined in the annual roadmap.
Target · Deliver 90% of strategic roadmap initiatives on time and within budget, with at least 80% user adoption.

Successfully launched our new hybrid event framework and associated tech stack across 5 major events in Q2, hitting all key delivery milestones and achieving strong positive feedback from event teams and attendees.

Strategic Influence & Thought Leadership
Your ability to influence C-suite and senior leadership on the strategic direction of event technology, positioning yourself as a trusted advisor and industry expert.
  • Regularly invited to present to the Executive Leadership Team on event tech trends and recommendations
  • sought out by other departments for tech advice
  • recognised externally through speaking engagements or publications.
Team Leadership & Development
How effectively you lead, mentor, and develop your team of managers and lead technologists, fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.
  • High team retention rates (above 85%)
  • positive feedback in 360-degree reviews regarding leadership and coaching
  • demonstrable career progression paths for direct reports
  • successful delegation of strategic projects.
Vendor Partnership Management
The quality of our relationships with key event technology vendors, ensuring we get the best service, support, and strategic input from our partners.
  • Regular strategic review meetings with top-tier vendors resulting in improved service levels or new feature development
  • favourable contract negotiations
  • vendors proactively bringing us innovative solutions
  • strong references from vendor account managers.
Risk Management & Business Continuity
Your proactive approach to identifying, mitigating, and planning for potential technology risks across our event portfolio, ensuring business continuity.
  • Robust disaster recovery plans in place for critical event systems
  • zero major tech-related event disruptions over a 12-month period
  • regular security audits with no critical findings
  • clear escalation paths for high-severity incidents.

5Would you like it

The honest version. What people enjoy, and what grinds them down.

What people enjoy
Shaping the Future

You'll spend time researching emerging tech, brainstorming new event formats, and building long-term roadmaps. You'll be excited by the prospect of bringing a new, groundbreaking tech solution to our events.

Leading the charge on integrating AI-driven personalisation into our mobile event apps for next year's flagship conference.

Driving Business Impact at Scale

You'll be focused on how event tech contributes to our overall P&L, pipeline, and customer satisfaction. You'll get a kick out of seeing your strategic decisions translate into tangible business results across a global portfolio.

Presenting to the board on how our consolidated event tech stack contributed to a 15% reduction in operational costs and a 10% increase in event-sourced MQLs.

Leading and Developing High-Performing Teams

You'll be coaching your managers, setting ambitious goals for the team, and creating opportunities for their growth. Seeing your team members thrive and take on bigger challenges will be a key motivator.

Mentoring a Lead Technologist to step up and own a major platform migration project, giving them the autonomy and support to succeed.

What frustrates people
  • The slow pace of change in large organisations, especially when trying to get multiple departments to agree on a new tech strategy.
  • Legacy systems that stubbornly refuse to integrate with anything modern, forcing workarounds that feel inefficient.
  • Having to justify significant tech investments to stakeholders who don't fully grasp the complexity or long-term benefits.
  • The constant pressure to do more with less, especially when tech budgets are scrutinised heavily.
  • Vendor lock-in or difficult contract negotiations that limit your strategic options.
What this role does not give you
  • Daily hands-on technical configuration or coding (you'll oversee it, not do it).
  • A predictable, unchanging tech roadmap (it's always evolving).
  • An environment free from political challenges or competing priorities.
  • A role where you don't have to manage complex budgets or negotiate contracts.

6Who you work with

This role directly impacts the effectiveness and efficiency of our entire global events programme. You'll be making decisions that affect multi-million pound budgets, influence our brand reputation, and directly contribute to sales pipeline and customer retention. Your strategic choices will determine our ability to scale events, innovate with new formats (like Web3 experiences), and collect meaningful data that drives business decisions. Frankly, you're shaping how we show up in the market through our most significant experiential touchpoints.

Inside the business
  • C-Suite (CMO, CIO, CSO)
  • Global Marketing Leadership
  • Sales & Revenue Operations
  • Product Development Teams
  • Finance & Procurement
Outside the business
  • Key Event Technology Vendors (Cvent, Hopin, Salesforce)
  • Industry Bodies & Associations
  • Strategic Partners & Agencies
  • Major Event Sponsors

7What you need before you start

Not a wish list. The things you would be expected to already have.

  • A proven track record of 12-15+ years in event technology, MarTech, or a related field, with at least 5-7 years in a senior leadership or management role.
  • Demonstrable experience managing multi-million pound technology budgets and leading complex vendor negotiations.
  • Experience building, leading, and developing high-performing teams, including managing managers.
  • A strong understanding of enterprise-level technology architecture and data integration principles.
  • Experience presenting strategic recommendations to C-suite and Board-level stakeholders.

8What to practise next

Where the job is going, and what to do about it starting this week.

Web3 & Metaverse Event Experiences

The shift towards decentralised technologies and immersive digital environments (metaverse) offers new frontiers for experiential marketing. While nascent, understanding these concepts is crucial for future innovation and staying relevant as audience expectations evolve.

NFTs for Ticketing & Digital Collectibles · Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) in Event Governance · Immersive Virtual Environments & Avatars · Blockchain for Secure Data & Identity

  • This quarter: Read up on leading Web3/metaverse event case studies and industry reports.
  • Next 3 months: Attend a virtual conference or workshop focused on Web3 in marketing/events.
  • Next 6 months: Task a Lead Technologist with researching potential pilot projects for a small, experimental Web3 event component.
  • Next 12 months: Develop a strategic perspective on the long-term viability and potential ROI of Web3 event investments for our brand.

Quick win: Follow key thought leaders in the Web3/metaverse space on LinkedIn and Twitter. Start to understand the language and the potential applications—it's a new world, but it's coming.

9Staying current once you are in

What people here do to keep up
  • Regularly attending industry leadership conferences (e.g., Event Tech Live, MarTech Conference, Gartner Symposium) to stay abreast of emerging trends and network with peers.
  • Participating in executive education programmes focused on digital transformation, strategic leadership, or advanced business acumen.
  • Engaging in mentorship programmes, both as a mentor and a mentee, to foster continuous learning and leadership development.
  • Contributing to industry thought leadership through speaking engagements, articles, or participation in advisory boards.

10How the AI economy is changing work like this

Before we ask anything of you, here's what we can already say about AI and work of this kind:

The new skill this role is being asked for: AI-Driven Personalisation & Predictive Analytics

Attendees expect highly personalised experiences, and AI is the key to delivering this at scale. From dynamic content recommendations to predictive attendee behaviour, AI will transform how we engage and understand our audience. Competitors are already experimenting, and we need to lead here.

We'll only ever tell you what we can actually back up. No hype, no scare tactics.

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2 units that map to this job, from the qualifications that cover it.

  1. Organise and coordinate eventsCity and Guilds of London Institute · covers 1 of 1 standardsLevel 3
  2. Organise a business eventCambridge OCR · covers 1 of 1 standardsLevel 2
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The rising capability

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What's rising in its place

This is where the work is heading, and the higher pay with it. Get fluent here and the shift stops being a threat and starts being your edge.

AI-Driven Personalisation & Predictive Analytics

Attendees expect highly personalised experiences, and AI is the key to delivering this at scale. From dynamic content recommendations to predictive attendee behaviour, AI will transform how we engage and understand our audience. Competitors are already experimenting, and we need to lead here.

  • Machine Learning Models for Recommendation Engines
  • Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Sentiment Analysis
  • Predictive Analytics for Attendee Flow & Resource Allocation
  • Ethical AI & Bias Mitigation

What you’ll use

Skills this role draws on

Technical

  • Enterprise Event Technology Architecture
  • Digital Transformation & Innovation
  • Global Vendor & Ecosystem Management
  • Advanced Event Data Governance & Analytics
  • Hybrid Event Strategy & Production Oversight

The pathway

How you actually get there, here

How you become one varies far more by country than what one does. This is the UK route. Most people take one of these ways in; the right one depends on where you're starting from.

  1. 1

    Global Event Technology Manager (L5)

    3-5 years

    Skills to master

    • Mastering team leadership, budget management for a large function, strategic vendor relationship management, and driving operational excellence across a portfolio of events.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Successfully managed a team of 10+ event technologists and delivered significant projects on time and budget.
    • Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and resolve complex operational challenges.
    • Consistently exceeded performance metrics related to event tech efficiency and attendee satisfaction.
    • Developed a clear strategic vision for their functional area and presented it to senior leadership.
  2. 2

    Head of MarTech Operations / Solutions Architect (from another industry)

    4-6 years

    Skills to master

    • Translating enterprise-level MarTech architecture and data governance expertise into the specific context of experiential marketing. Understanding the unique demands of live event production and attendee journeys.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Proven track record of designing and implementing complex MarTech stacks and data integration strategies.
    • Strong understanding of marketing automation, CRM, and analytics platforms at an enterprise level.
    • Demonstrated ability to lead large-scale technology projects and manage significant budgets.
    • A genuine interest and quick learning ability for the nuances of the events and experiential marketing industry.

11Where this role leads

The long view:This role is a launchpad for significant executive leadership. You'll gain unparalleled experience in shaping a critical, high-visibility function within a dynamic industry. If you're ready to define the future of event technology and make a lasting impact on our business, this is the place to do it.

Pay & demand

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The ten Future Fluencies

Zavmo analysis

The credential is what you can do today. These are what keep you valuable.

A qualification proves you can do the job as it's defined today. These ten are what decide whether you're still the obvious person for it in five years. They're the capabilities employers are now writing into senior roles faster than people are learning them. Zavmo weaves them through whatever you study, so you come out with both: the credential and the fluency.

The highlighted ones are the Fluencies your role leans on hardest, from how Director, Global Event Technology is actually changing. In about two minutes, the free confidence check asks where you stand on each of the ten. That's the whole check, and it's what makes the plan yours rather than generic.

12The team that's yours

No two people are taught the same way. This is one-to-one, not one-to-many.

Zavmo is a hyper-personalised AI learning platform. Twelve virtual tutors, each with a different way of teaching, and one orchestration agent that picks the right one for the moment. So every single lesson is shaped around you, your role, and the way you learn. Not a course everyone sits through. A conversation built for you, and no one else.

…and nine more, matched to you after your first chat. Meet all twelve

13What it feels like

A conversation, not a course

Because your tutor knows your role, your projects and your last session, learning sounds like this. And it's different for every single person:

Organise and coordinate eventsLevel 3

Applied to your work in Director, Global Event Technology

By completing this unit, learners will be able to organise and coordinate activities before, during, and after an event, understanding the role of an event organiser and the importance of effective planning.

How the thinking builds
  1. Remember
  2. Understand
  3. Apply
  4. Analyse
  5. Evaluate
  6. Create
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One to one, not one to many

No two people run this the same way

A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.

  1. Your actual work Every lesson is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
  2. What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
  3. The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
  4. How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
  5. Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.

See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.

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Evidenced on your work in Director, Global Event Technology

You do not finish by watching something. You finish by showing it on the work you already do, against the measures this job is judged on.

  • Event Technology ROIThe return on investment for our overall event technology spend, looking at cost savings, operational efficiencies, and attributed business value (e.g., pipeline generated, customer retention).After implementing a new global virtual platform, we reduced per-attendee tech costs by 20% while increasing engagement metrics by 15%, leading to a £2M increase in attributed pipeline, demonstrating a strong ROI.Achieve a minimum 3:1 ROI on event tech investments annually.
  • Platform Consolidation & OptimisationReducing the number of disparate event technology platforms and optimising existing licences to drive cost efficiencies and improve data flow.Successfully migrated three regional event platforms onto our global enterprise solution, saving £500K in annual licence fees and streamlining data integration processes.Reduce primary event tech vendors by 20% within 18 months; achieve 90% utilisation of enterprise platform features.
  • Event Data Quality & Speed to CRMThe accuracy, completeness, and speed at which event-generated data (e.g., attendee registrations, session attendance, lead scans) is integrated into our CRM and marketing automation systems.Implemented a new data integration strategy that cut lead processing time by 90% for our flagship conference, allowing sales to follow up on hot leads within hours, not days.Achieve 98% data accuracy for key event fields; reduce lead-to-CRM sync time from 48 hours to 4 hours post-event.
  • Strategic Initiative DeliveryThe successful planning, execution, and adoption of new event technology capabilities or major platform upgrades as defined in the annual roadmap.Successfully launched our new hybrid event framework and associated tech stack across 5 major events in Q2, hitting all key delivery milestones and achieving strong positive feedback from event teams and attendees.Deliver 90% of strategic roadmap initiatives on time and within budget, with at least 80% user adoption.
These are this job's own measures, with its own targets. Nothing is marked evidenced, because nobody has started this yet. Yours would fill in from the work you bring.

Your passport

This isn't a certificate you file away. It's a passport to the life you're designing.

Every credit you earn and every fluency you build adds up: evidence where it counts, carried with you. Zavmo keeps the map: where you are, where you're heading, and the next step, at your pace, around your life. From Director, Global Event Technology to VP, Experiential Marketing & Technology (L7), and whatever you decide comes after.

Level 7 · in progressAI Fluency→ VP, Experiential Marketing & Technology (L7)→ your design
Where this takes you

This role is a launchpad for significant executive leadership. You'll gain unparalleled experience in shaping a critical, high-visibility function within a dynamic industry. If you're ready to define the future of event technology and make a lasting impact on our business, this is the place to do it.

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Director, Global Event Technology
  • Enterprise Event Technology Architecture
  • Digital Transformation & Innovation
  • Global Vendor & Ecosystem Management
  • Advanced Event Data Governance & Analytics
  • Hybrid Event Strategy & Production Oversight
This is your Mind Palace on learn.zavmo.ai. Every skill above comes from this role's own record, not an example borrowed from another job. A node lights up when you evidence it, and what you build stays yours between jobs. That is the part a course cannot do.

14The detail, folded away

Everything else the record holds

The career branches in full, how AI is already showing up in the day-to-day, and the questions people ask about this job. Here when you want them, out of the way while you decide.

Where it leads next, rung by rung

Where it leads

The career path, and where it branches

Director, Global Event Technology is a start, not a ceiling. Each step below asks for new skills and hands back more autonomy.

  1. VP, Experiential Marketing & Technology (L7)

    3-5 years

    Strategic oversight of the entire experiential marketing function, integrating event tech into broader enterprise strategy.

    • Defining enterprise-wide MarTech strategy.
    • M&A involvement and integration.
    • Global brand strategy and market positioning.
    • Deep understanding of customer lifecycle management across all touchpoints.
  2. Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) or Chief Information Officer (CIO)

    5-8 years

    Broader executive leadership, owning overall marketing or technology strategy for the entire company.

    • Overall brand strategy and corporate communications.
    • Enterprise IT infrastructure and cybersecurity.
    • Global sales and revenue enablement through technology.
    • Customer experience (CX) strategy across all channels.
Working with AI on the job

Working with AI

Where AI is starting to help

Let's be real, at the Director level, your time is precious. You're paid to think strategically, not get bogged down in manual tasks. Good news: AI isn't just for junior analysts anymore. It's a game-changer for leaders who know how to wield it, freeing you up to focus on what truly matters: vision, strategy, and driving transformation.

For a Director of Global Event Technology, AI can transform how you evaluate platforms, analyse market trends, draft executive communications, and even identify strategic risks. It's about augmenting your strategic capabilities, not replacing them. Think of it as having a super-smart research assistant and a brilliant copywriter on demand, allowing you to operate at a higher level, faster.

Strategic Trend Analysis & Forecasting

Feed AI models with industry reports, competitor analyses, and internal event data to quickly identify emerging tech trends, forecast market shifts, and pinpoint strategic opportunities or threats. It'll summarise key insights, saving you days of research.

Executive Communication Drafting

Use AI to draft initial versions of board presentations, strategic proposals, vendor negotiation briefs, and high-stakes emails. Provide the key points, and AI will structure the argument, refine the language, and ensure a professional, impactful tone. You'll spend your time refining, not starting from scratch.

Advanced Vendor Evaluation & RFP Generation

Automate the initial screening of event tech vendors by feeding AI your detailed requirements and criteria. It can generate comprehensive comparison matrices, highlight pros and cons, and even draft sections of RFPs, ensuring you're asking the right questions and evaluating objectively.

Impact Assessment & Scenario Planning

Use AI to model the potential impact of different technology investments or strategic pivots on your P&L, operational efficiency, and attendee experience. Run 'what-if' scenarios in minutes, giving you data-backed insights for your strategic decisions and board presentations.

Common questions

Common questions

How do you become a Director, Global Event Technology?

Common routes in include Global Event Technology Manager (L5) (3-5 years) and Head of MarTech Operations / Solutions Architect (from another industry) (4-6 years). Times vary with prior experience.

Where can a Director, Global Event Technology progress to?

This role can lead on to VP, Experiential Marketing & Technology (L7) (3-5 years) and Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) or Chief Information Officer (CIO) (5-8 years), depending on the skills you build.

What level is a Director, Global Event Technology in the UK?

This role aligns to RQF Level 7 on the UK framework, a guide to the depth of qualification it maps to, not a hard entry bar.

What new skills matter most for a Director, Global Event Technology?

Increasingly, AI-Driven Personalisation & Predictive Analytics. These are the areas where the higher-paid, future-proof work is heading.

The honest bit

You’ve started things before

Most of them were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.

There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.

And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.

What it costs

Less than one coaching session. Every month.

A single career-coaching hour costs more than a month of this, and it ends when the hour does. Zavmo doesn't. It's £70 a month, about £2.30 a day, for a companion that knows a Director, Global Event Technology, works on the job you actually do, and keeps going at your pace rather than a timetable's.

  • Searching and planning stay free. You only pay when you start learning.
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  • Cancel any time and billing stops. No notice period, no minimum term.

Your path, personalised

You have the map. Walking it is the part we do together.

This route runs to 1 national skill standard. That is a real journey.

Zavmo shapes a learning experience as unique as you are. It fits how you learn, your pace and the work you already do. Every step stays benchmarked to recognised national standards. That’s the plan for becoming a Director, Global Event Technology: personal to you, and it still counts. The first steps are free.

Independent research finds well-designed intelligent tutoring performs nearly as well as one-to-one human tutoring: VanLehn (2011), Educational Psychologist.

A private tutor in the UK averages £35–40 an hour . Zavmo is £70/month.

A real plan on learn.zavmo.ai: Ofqual-regulated units, credits, and a three-month run at your own pace.
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15Where to go from here

Other roles at Level 7

Same depth of qualification, different job. Useful if the work appeals but this particular role does not.

Other roles in Events Experiential Marketing

Stay in the field you know and move sideways rather than up.

If you leave this industry

The skills you'll develop here—strategic technology leadership, global vendor management, data governance, and driving digital transformation—are highly transferable. You could easily move into similar leadership roles within broader MarTech, general IT, or even operational technology in other industries that rely heavily on customer experience and data.

Not sure this is the right direction?

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