Baker Hughes

Events & Experiences Specialist

IT-FI-FLORENCE-VIA FELICE MATTEUCCI 2 Full time

Do you enjoy working with cutting-edge technology?

Would you like to help shape the future of our global energy?

Join our Team!

Baker Hughes (NASDAQ: BKR) provides technology and solutions to industrial and energy customers worldwide. With more than a century of experience and a global footprint in more than 120 countries, we are rewriting The Energy Equation™, making energy safer, cleaner, and more efficient for people and the planet. Visit us at bakerhughes.com.

Partner with the best

The Events & Experiences Specialist is responsible for planning, managing, and delivering events and experiences within the enterprise events portfolio.

Acting as the steward of experiential expression, this role translates approved event strategies and briefs into high-quality, on time, and on budget execution, ensuring each event delivers against defined business, brand, and audience objectives. This role is delivery-focused, with clear accountability for execution excellence, stakeholder coordination, and risk management across assigned events.

Key responsibilities

Event Experience & Delivery

· Lead end-to-end planning and execution of assigned events and experiences

· Own detailed event plans, timelines, and workstream coordination

· Manage event logistics, production, and on-site execution in partnership with internal teams and external vendors

· Ensure events deliver against agreed scope, timelines, and quality expectations

Stakeholder Management

  • Serve as the day-to-day point of contact for stakeholders on assigned events

  • Set clear expectations around scope, timelines, and decision rights

  • Provide regular status updates and proactively manage changes or issues

  • Represent the event team professionally with senior internal and external stakeholders

  • Coordinate with cross-functional internal partners, including Sales and commercial teams, Digital, IT, security, HSE, and compliance

  • Ensure information flows clearly and consistently across stakeholders

Governance, Risk & Compliance

  • Execute events in line with COE standards, playbooks, and operating procedures

  • Identify delivery risks, issues, or dependencies early and escalate appropriately

  • Ensure adherence to enterprise requirements related to safety, security, and compliance, financial controls and approvals, and brand and experience standards

Budget & Vendor Management

  • Manage event-level budgets in partnership with the Event Operations team

  • Track costs, commitments, and variances for assigned events

  • Coordinate with Procurement and vendors to support contracting, purchase orders, and on-site delivery

  • Support accurate accruals and financial closeout post-event

Onsite Leadership & Post-event Review

  • Act as the on-site event lead (or delegate appropriately) during delivery

  • Coordinate vendors, agencies, and internal teams during live execution

  • Resolve issues calmly and decisively in real time

  • Lead post-event debriefs

  • Ensure lessons learned are documented and shared

What success looks like

  • Events are delivered on time, on budget, and to standard

  • Stakeholders experience clarity, confidence, and professionalism

  • Risks are anticipated and managed—not escalated late

  • Events consistently reflect enterprise brand and experience standards

  • Delivery teams operate smoothly within the COE framework

Fuel your passion

To be successfull in this role, you will have:

  • Bachelor’s degree in events, marketing, communications, project management, or a related field

  • 6–8+ years of experience delivering corporate events, trade shows, customer or executive events

  • Demonstrated experience managing complex, multi-workstream events

  • Strong organizational and execution skills

  • Ability to manage multiple priorities under pressure

  • Clear, confident communication

  • Practical problem solving and risk awareness

  • Comfort operating within defined frameworks while remaining agile

Skills & Competencies

  • Global event brand strategy and experience design

  • Ability to balance global consistency with regional flexibility

  • Executive-level communication and stakeholder influence

  • Operational rigor and attention to detail

  • Comfort operating at both strategic and hands-on execution levels


Work in a way that works for you

We recognize that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too. In this role, we can offer the following flexible working patterns:

  • Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive

Working with us

Our people are at the heart of what we do at Baker Hughes. We know we are better when all of our people are developed, engaged and able to bring their whole authentic selves to work. We invest in the health and well-being of our workforce, train and reward talent and develop leaders at all levels to bring out the best in each other.

Working for you

Our inventions have revolutionized energy for over a century. But to keep going forward tomorrow, we know we have to push the boundaries today. We prioritize rewarding those who embrace change with a package that reflects how much we value their input. Join us, and you can expect:

  • Contemporary work-life balance policies and wellbeing activities

  • Comprehensive private medical care options

  • Safety net of life insurance and disability programs

  • Tailored financial programs

  • Additional elected or voluntary benefits

The Baker Hughes internal title for this role is: Communications Specialist - Customer/Marketing Comm