Join the Team

WHD is looking for a Marketing Manager to join us at our Cologne headquarters to develop and deliver innovative marketing campaigns for our flagship events, CloudFest and MSP GLOBAL.

Core Responsibilities

• Work with the Head of Marketing to develop the event marketing plans and budgets for CloudFest and MSP GLOBAL to achieve each event’s attendance goals
• Execute multichannel event marketing campaigns across all channels and seek innovative ways to attract our audiences
• Position our events as the global market leaders for both attendees and sponsors
• Cultivate a deep understanding of our target audience and develop actionable segmentation, targeting, and personas
• Create customer journeys, develop lead nurture campaigns, and maximise use of automation where appropriate
• Track campaign performance KPIs, focused on continuous improvement and measurement
• Partner with our sponsorship sales team to develop innovative lead generation campaigns that drive new business and strengthen existing relationships
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver events that blow people’s minds

Skills and Experience We Are Looking For

• Proven track record in a similar role: 2-3 years’ experience required
• Bachelor’s Degree in business, marketing, communications, or related field
• Data driven, understanding of segmentation and personas
• Social media and paid marketing experience
• Use of WordPress, Google Analytics, Linked In; HubSpot is a plus
• Strong measurement skills and strive for continuous improvement
• Great communication and exceptional copywriting skills
• Extremely organised and accountable
• Awesome team player with excellent stakeholder management skills
• Diversity is power: we strongly encourage applicants of all gender identities, ethnicities, and backgrounds

Employee Benefits

• Choice between cost coverage and selection of your dream-job bike, public transportation (Deutschlandticket), or a parking space in our underground parking garage
• Regular team events
• Free drinks in the office
• Flexible working model with home office options
• Subsidized membership at the Urban Sports Club

Job Type: Full-time
Ability to commute/relocate: 50667 Köln – Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)
Experience: Marketing Management – 2 years (Required)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in 50667 Köln

To strengthen our Finance team, we are looking for a motivated individual who enjoys helping to shape structures and taking on responsibility.

Core Responsibilities

• Independent processing of accounts receivable, accounts payable and general ledger accounting
• Assisting with the preparation of monthly and annual financial statements
• Responsibility for asset accounting and the associated payment transactions
• Preparation of advance VAT returns and support with annual returns in cooperation with the tax consultant
• Checking, account assignment and posting of incoming and outgoing invoices
• Monitoring payment transactions including dunning procedures
• Support with all other bookkeeping tasks in the area of accounting
• Communication with tax advisors, social insurance providers and other external partners

Skills and Experience We Are Looking For

• Education: Completed commercial training – ideally with further training as an accountant, tax clerk or comparable qualification
• Professional experience: At least 3 years of experience in financial accounting, preferably in an international environment
• IT skills: Confident handling of common ERP systems as well as MS Office (especially Excel)
• Competencies: Analytical thinking, high affinity for numbers, careful and structured way of working
• Soft skills: Initiative, strong communication skills, sense of responsibility and ability to work in a team

Employee Benefits

• Choice between cost coverage and selection of your dream-job bike, public transportation (Deutschlandticket), or a parking space in our underground parking garage
• Regular team events
• Free drinks in the office
• Flexible working model with home office options
• Subsidized membership at the Urban Sports Club

Job Type: Full-time
Working hours: Monday – Friday
Ability to commute/relocate: 50667 Köln – Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)
Experience: Financial accounting – 3 years (Desirable)
Language: German and English
Work Location: Hybrid remote in 50667 Köln

Core Responsibilities

• Organization and management of hotel allotments and participant bookings
• Checking registrations in the internal registration tool
• On-site support as the first point of contact for participants
• Coordination of travel bookings for speakers, artists and employees
• Independent support and supervision of individual event formats before and during the events

Skills and Experience We Are Looking For

• Quick comprehension and practice-oriented, independent action
• Good to very good written and spoken English skills
• Reliability & ability to work independently
• Careful and structured handling of data
• Hands-on mentality at the events

Information about iba

iba | Internationale Berufsakademie is Germany’s largest state-recognized university of cooperative education. The range of courses includes the dual Bachelor’s degree programs: Business Administration and Business Administration Intercultural Competencies in 20 specializations each, Social Work & Management and Social Work, Management & Coaching, Applied Therapy Sciences – Physiotherapy and Applied Therapy Sciences – Focus on Occupational Therapy. At 13 study locations (Baden-Baden, Berlin, Bochum, Darmstadt, Erfurt, Hamburg, Heidelberg, Kassel, Cologne, Leipzig, Munich, Münster, Nuremberg), iba trains students in the split-week model together with its network of 7,000 partners.

Start of studies: WS 25/26