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Partnerships Event LeadLive Nation
19 days ago
  • LevelMid Level
  • ProfessionsEvent Manager, Account Manager, Administrator
  • TypeFull Time
  • LocationLondon, United Kingdom

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Description

Role Description
Live Nation Marketing Partnerships is seeking a passionate and experienced Partnerships Event Lead to join our team and play a pivotal role in ensuring the seamless delivery of exceptional service to our brand partners at our UK festivals.
Reporting to the Head of Festival Experience, the successful candidate will obsess over delivering a best-in-class experience for our partners across a series of Live Nation UK festivals.
This dynamic role will involve collaborating with various stakeholders, executing initiatives, fostering strong relationships with our event teams and partners to ensure their satisfaction and engagement. The post holder will have strong interpersonal & project management skills and proven experience in delivering successful partnerships in a live event environment.
What it’s like to work in the Team
Our team is made up of a diverse group of individuals, but we all share the same passion for exceptional delivery for our brand partners. We have a fun and supportive atmosphere within the team where we each take real ownership of our responsibilities. We are dedicated to building excellent relationships with our brand partners at our Festivals and Venues, and spend time to ensure they experience a best in class service.
What we can offer you
Live Nation offers impressive employee benefits including tickets to shows and festivals and unlimited annual leave. The newly opened Farmiloe Building in Farringdon, London is a beautiful office to work in. Staff can enjoy use of arcade games in the basement games room, onsite gym equipment plus fitness and meditation classes. In addition to this, the office has a fully stocked complimentary coffee bar with barista to serve you your favourite coffee as you walk into the office and offers heavily subsidised lunch options. We hold regular staff events in our atrium stage space including hosting speakers and open mic nights to showcase Live Nation employee talent.
Who you are
Competencies / Skills / Knowledge / Experience
Essential
  • Experience working on, or with, partnerships (ideally delivered in live music) or other relevant experience.
  • Strong understanding of sponsorship and partnership principles.
  • An acute understanding of the importance of achieveing partnership goals, and how these goals are translated to best-in-class deliverables that elevate fan experiences.
  • Ability to lead multiple projects, managing and delegating deliverables across a number of stakeholders
  • Able to prioritise and hit multiple deadlines consistently, keeping projects on track and pushing them continuously forward
  • A track record of taking command and ownership of situations and projects with the ability to foresee and neutralise any potential concerns at source as a par for the course; minimising escalation to HOD level
  • Proven resolution management experience, instilled with a sense of urgency for projects large and small
  • Ability to plan and anticipate problems, along with understanding how best to address them
  • Line Management Experience
  • Have great written and verbal communication skills with exceptional attention to detail
  • Working knowledge of Microsoft Office suite
Desirable
  • Working knowledge of one or more of the festivals within the UK
  • Salesforce experience
  • Full UK Driver’s license
Behaviours
The following attributes determine how the role will be carried out and are required to be a success
  • A tenacious and conscientious individual who takes pride in delivering work to the highest standard
  • A team player who is willing to roll their sleeves up and get stuck in with a positive attitude
  • Must be motivated with an “everything is possible” attitude
  • A highly self-motivated, organised working style and a fast learner
  • Passion for the entertainment industry and a deep understanding of the live music experience.
  • Confident, friendly, professional yet firm; able to build a rapport with all types of people
  • A highly motivated, tenacious and conscientious individual who takes pride in delivering work to the highest standard
  • Ability to work calm under pressure despite conflicting demands
  • Comfortable with extended seasonal time away from home (depending on business requirements)
What the role includes
  • Working closely with festival teams and partners, be the Partnerships lead for selected events taking responsibility for exceptional delivery of on-the ground partnerships elements, including brand activations, ‘Name In Title’ and Stage partnership deliverables, accreditation and ticket access into the event(s) amongst others.
  • Attend festival team meetings to represent partnerships and ensure clear information is shared on all partnership rights and responsibilities to deliver these
  • Communicating with Festival Stakeholder sand internal teams to ensure seamless advancing and delivery of partners contracted rights
  • Appraising partner concepts with an event lens ensuring they align with the partners objectives and can be executed well at relevant festivals
  • Act as on-site lead point of contact & escalation for our partners and working teams
  • Working with relevant parties to analyse and to review the effectiveness of the event through feedback sessions event with a focus on continuous improvement
  • Lead a team to ensure all aspects from advance, live & load out of partners at assigned events are managed with excellence
  • Assist in scheduling and booking appropriate number of staff as required while maintaining labour costs within assigned budgetary guidelines
  • Maintain accurate records and timely reporting via IT systems
  • Post-event analysis of performance against agreed targets, debriefing with clients and internal teams
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. For additional information, visit www.livenationentertainment.com

Skills Required

  • Partnerships
  • Project Management
  • Interpersonal Skills

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