Marketing Events Coordinator, Security

Department: Industry Services & Solutions (ISS) Marketing
Team: Technology Marketing - Security
Location: London with hybrid working
Position type: Contractor (inside IR35) until 31st December 2025

What the hiring manager says

“Mobile security is an area of increasing importance, with our members playing a key part in helping to improve consumer trust and safety. Events are critical for facilitating knowledge sharing, helping to identify and reduce security threats and risks. Because of the importance of events for the GSMA (and the telecoms industry as a whole), we need an experienced events coordinator to assist in the planning and delivery of Security content for all events.”
Emma Henderson, Senior Marketing Manager - Security

About the Role

We are seeking a proactive and highly organised Marketing Event Coordinator to support the planning and execution of Security content within all GSMA-led conferences (Mobile World Congress, M360s, Technology Summits), as well as ad hoc Security events and webinars.

Sitting within the Marketing Team, you will have the following responsibilities:

• Coordinate end-to-end event logistics, from initial planning through to post-event analysis.
• Support the Senior Marketing Manager (Security) in liaising with key GSMA event management stakeholders, including Sponsorship, Content, Operations, and Technical Leads.
• Work with Technical Leads and Senior Marketing Manager (Security) to identify relevant speakers and content for Security Summits, Roundtables and SEC CONs.
• Manage all speaker logistics, including organising speaker schedules, collecting presentations, improving presentation formatting etc.
• Manage event timelines, budgets, and tasks, ensuring deadlines are met.
• Work closely with the wider Technology Marketing Team to align on content, sponsors and speakers.
• Support with content creation for conference promotion e.g. email invites, social media posts, paid advertising.
• Support with on-the-day coordination, including catering, event recordings, speaker management, and room logistics.
• Support on evaluating event data, including attendee numbers, unique scans, Senior level, C level, Companies and Countries.

About You

• Experience in an event coordination or marketing support role 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
• Experience in B2B or tech sectors is a plus

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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.