Event Coordinator, GSMAi

Department: Outreach Marketing
Team: GSMA Intelligence (GSMAi)
Location: London with hybrid working. Part-time role working 3 days per week or equivalent hours
Position type: Contractor (umbrella – inside IR35). ASAP start until 31st December 2026

What the hiring manager says

“We’re looking for someone to join our growing GSMAi marketing team to support the delivery of our expanding and high-profile event portfolio. This role will make a tangible impact by ensuring that our events and webinars are delivered seamlessly, helping us maintain the quality and reliability our clients and audiences expect. You’ll have the opportunity to work across MWC, webinars, and paid consulting events, supporting the broader marketing and commercial teams while gaining exposure to a range of operational and strategic event activities.”
Abi Marshall, Senior Marketing Manager, GSMA Intelligence

About the Team

Over the past year, our team has grown and evolved, moving into the broader GSMAi Services team, which includes colleagues delivering similar event and consulting support across other business units. You’ll be working alongside GSMA Intelligence analysts, the wider services team, marketing colleagues, and peers in similar roles supporting other GSMA products.

This collaborative structure allows for knowledge sharing, consistency in delivery, and opportunities to learn from experienced professionals across the organisation.

About the role

We are seeking a proactive and highly organised Marketing Event Coordinator to support the planning and execution of GSMA Intelligence events, including Mobile World Congress summits, sessions, roundtables, and online webinars.

Sitting within the Marketing Team, your responsibilities will include:
• Coordinate end-to-end event logistics, from initial planning through to post-event analysis.
• Support the Senior Marketing Manager (GSMA Intelligence) in liaising with key GSMA event stakeholders, including Sponsorship, Content, Operations, and Technical Leads.
• Work with GSMA Intelligence analysts and the Senior Marketing Manager to identify relevant speakers and content for events, roundtables, and webinars.
• Manage all speaker logistics, including scheduling, collecting presentations, and improving formatting.
• Plan and deliver 2–3 webinars per month with external speakers, coordinating invitations, technical setup, and post-event follow-ups.
• Oversee event timelines, budgets, and tasks, ensuring deadlines are met.
• Collaborate with the wider Technology Marketing Team to align on content, sponsors, and speakers.
• Support content creation for event and webinar promotion, including email invites, social media posts, and paid advertising.
• Assist with on-the-day coordination, including catering, event recordings, speaker management, and room or online logistics.
• Support evaluating event data, including attendee numbers, unique scans, senior-level and C-level participation, companies, and countries.

About You

• Notable coordination experience with event exposure.
• Strong project management and organisational skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
• Proficiency with tools such as Excel and PowerPoint.
• Knowledge of marketing fundamentals and brand guidelines.

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What We Offer

Working at the GSMA offers you unparalleled access to the mobile industry. We offer a chance to truly shape the direction of mobile, whatever your role. By joining the GSMA, you will be exposed to a fast-paced rapidly evolving environment, working on global solutions, genuinely fascinating and industry-changing projects and a stimulating and dynamic environment designed to enable you to flourish.

In addition to architect-designed offices and competitive compensation, our benefits include fantastic learning & development opportunities, generous holiday allowances, four additional days off for professional development and many others.

To learn more about the GSMA, visit our career site, our LinkedIn page and our Twitter page.

Being You at the GSMA

We care deeply about diversity, equity and inclusivity and aspire to be the best at it. Your well-being and work/life balance is important, so flexi-time and remote working is available to all staff. We're keen to ensure everyone is equal, represented and connected so we particularly encourage applications from all demographics. The sucess of the GSMA year on year will continue to be contributed by people from all walks of life.

GSMA Values

Our values not only drive our culture – they shape how we work and interact inside and outside our global organisation.

Passionately driven

We approach everything we do with unparalleled capability, tenacity and commitment, knowing that the challenging scale, pace and complexity of our work is what leads to its world-changing impact.

Insightful leaders

We continually develop and engage our expertise, insight and creativity so that we’re always ready to respond to the changing landscape with authority, agility and nuance.

Stronger together

We lean on each other so the industry can lean on us, embracing our diversity by actively seeking out perspectives and skill sets beyond our own, fuelling each other’s successes and constantly asking how we can help.

Underpinning our values is our collective mindset to show up purposefully as good human beings every day, in every situation. When we’re at our best – we are collaborative, considerate and compassionate to others, and we create a safe space for one another to thrive, assuming positive intent in our colleagues. And if we aren’t at our best and the pressure is on – we feel free to be ourselves but still remain curious, lean into the tough stuff and we are always respectful to others and accountable for the part we play.