Promoter

Company: Live Nation

Department: Promotions

Location: Farringdon, London

Working hours: 40 hours (with flexibility to work evenings and weekends) Contract type: Permanent

Role Description

The Promoter is primarily responsible for finding and booking Artists for individual gigs, concerts festivals and tours. The effectiveness of the promoter will be measured by them successfully and consistently securing appropriate talent for the festivals, tours and individual concerts they work across leading to these events achieving operational profitability.

Who you are

Competencies / Skills / Knowledge / Experience

• Proven experience in a similar role e.g. working as a promoter, with an agency, management etc.
• Candidates with links to the US comedy market would be particularly relevant to this vacancy.
• Excellent time management skills.
• Organised, with a high level of attention to detail.
• Excellent communication (written and verbal), inter-personal skills.
• Competency with numerical data.
• Exceptional problem solving ability.
• Excellent team building skills to include immediate team members, internal departments and clients alike.

Behaviours

The following attributes determine how the role will be carried out and are required to be a success

• High level of initiative, self-motivated and conscientious.
• Results oriented.
• Ability to adapt and reprioritise in a highly pressured working environment.

What the role includes

Strategy and Business Direction

• To contribute to the promoter team though building a rounded touring roster, and working on outdoor events that sit within the team.
• To assist in the future strategy of the team including international touring development.
• To contribute to the profitable operation of Live Nation and ensuring that such business is undertaken in accordance with company policy.

Operational Planning and Control

• Secure the booking of artists for Live Nation.
• Develop relations with artists, their managers and their agents.
• Working with the agreed framework and controls when budgeting and producing artists' offers, ensuring transparency and that best value has been secured for Live Nation.
• Carry out continuous research as to musical trends and developing artists.
• Working with the artist managers and agents to develop an artists career to ensure future success of the artist
• Develop band databases, then utilising this information to secure relevant supports for headline bands and local band showcases. Regularly monitor the potential of artists to promoter team.
• Ensure all relevant parties (artist / agent / venue staff) have all relevant information to placate and to ensure smooth running of concerts and events.
• Ensure accurate, regular and prompt reporting / keeping of figures involved in their work, to be presented to key personnel as and when required.
• To ensure that a monthly 'rolling' event promotion report is produced (highlighting those events that may underperform.
• Setting budgets.
• Oversee booking strategy to maximise concerts and events.
• Provide information to enable the reviewing of systems for suitability and potential upgrading.
• Working with other senior promoters to create new outdoor IP's.

Accountability

• Successfully and consistently achieving operational profitability and artist/event development.

Equal Opportunities

We are passionate and committed to our people and go beyond the rhetoric of diversity and inclusion.

You will be working in an inclusive environment and be encouraged to bring your whole self to work. We will do all that we can to help you successfully balance your work and homelife. As a growing business we will encourage you to develop your professional and personal aspirations, enjoy new experiences, and learn from the talented people you will be working with. It's talent that matters to us and we encourage applications from people irrespective of their gender identity, race, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability status or caring responsibilities.

The Company

Live Nation Entertainment is the world's leading live entertainment company, comprised of global market leaders: Ticketmaster, Live Nation Concerts, and Live Nation Media & Sponsorship. Ticketmaster is the global leader in event ticketing with over 500 million tickets sold annually and more than 12,000 clients worldwide. Live Nation Concerts is the largest provider of live entertainment in the world promoting more than 40,000 shows and 100+ festivals annually for nearly 4,000 artists in over 40 countries. These businesses allow Live Nation Media & Sponsorship to create strategic music marketing programs that connect over 1,000 brands with the 98 million fans that attend Live Nation Entertainment events each year.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: 12TH OCTOBER 2024. We reserve the right to close applications at any time.

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