Aker Systems was founded in 2017 by a team of experienced technology professionals who recognised an opportunity to provide highly secure enterprise data platforms to large organisations. We build and operate ground-breaking, ultra-secure, high performance, cloud-based data infrastructure for the enterprise. Our proprietary technology solutions drive performance and reduce costs while helping our clients to improve the management and sharing of data across their organisations.
In 2024, Aker Systems won the Breakthrough Culture Awards highlighting growth companies putting culture first. In 2020 Aker Systems was recognised as a ‘One to Watch’ on the Sunday Times Tech Track. The Company was also recognised at the Thames Valley Tech Awards 2020; winning the Thames Valley Tech Company of the year, the Emerging Tech Company and High Growth Tech Business categories. We encourage people of all different backgrounds and identities to apply. We are committed to maintaining an inclusive, and supportive place for you to do your very best work.
We are looking for an experienced and driven Marketing Manager to lead the strategy, planning, and execution of campaigns, especially events that fuel demand generation and support our enterprise sales cycle. In this role, you will manage a mix of physical and virtual events — including industry conferences, partner summits, webinars, and proprietary client experiences — all tailored to our technology services audience in public and private sectors.
You will work closely with sales, product, and subject matter experts to ensure every event supports pipeline growth and showcases our position as one of the the UK’s foremost data modernisation companies.
Duties & Responsibilities:
Event Strategy & Program Ownership
- Own the end-to-end event marketing strategy aligned to business goals — including participation at industry trade shows, hosted client events, tech roundtables, and digital webinars.
- Develop an integrated annual events calendar in collaboration with the new business sales team
Planning, Execution & Budget Management
- Manage event timelines, budgets, vendor contracts, venue logistics, and staffing plans.
- Lead on-site execution and post-event debriefs to ensure flawless delivery and continuous improvement.
Sales Enablement & Stakeholder Collaboration
- Collaborate with sales leaders to align events with key accounts and enterprise buyers.
- Create and distribute event collateral, talking points, and follow-up materials for commercial teams.
Sales enablement content development & management
- Responsibility for developing sales enablement content such as powerpoint presentation content, white papers, leave behinds, case studies, in conjunction with subject matter experts in the company
- Responsibility for development and management of content for the Aker website
Data & Reporting
- Track key metrics (registrations, attendance, lead quality, pipeline contribution, ROI) and optimize strategy based on performance insights.
- Maintain accurate records in CRM (Monday.com)
Essential Experience and Competencies:
- 4–7 years of B2B marketing experience, with a strong focus on event strategy and execution in the technology or professional services sector.
- Demonstrated success driving event-based demand generation and supporting long sales cycles.
- Strong project management and organizational skills
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills — from executives to external vendors.
- Experience producing both in-person and virtual events.
- Ability to travel for event delivery and management (estimated 10–20%).
Preferred Experience and Competencies:
- Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, Communications, or related field.
- Familiarity with ABM (Account-Based Marketing) strategies and enterprise buyer journeys.
- Understanding of current tech industry trends, especially in cloud, data, cybersecurity, AI, or IT consulting.
Aker Systems Attributes
At Aker we work as a team, we are collaborative, hardworking, open, and delivery obsessed. There is no blame culture here: try things, and take responsibility for the outcomes. You are always part of the wider Aker. We help out our colleagues and take pride in successfully achieving difficult tasks. We run towards problems and help solve them. Communicate always, do so accurately and in a timely fashion.
In return, we offer a competitive salary, 25 days holiday (excluding bank holidays), Company Paid Medical Insurance, Life Assurance (4x times basic salary), Pension scheme, Perks at Work, Cycle Scheme, Tech Scheme and Season Ticket Loan. Plus, a list of voluntary benefits including Dental Insurance, Critical illness cover and Virtual GP.
Equal Opportunities
Aker Systems fosters a diverse environment that encourages openness in its communications and is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people regardless of race, religion, gender or sexual orientation, age, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, disability, veteran status or other personal characteristics. We embrace differences of opinion and diversity because they help challenge us and find new groundbreaking technical solutions.
