Touring Project Manager

Job Summary:

WHO ARE WE?

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 620 million tickets sold annually and approximately 10,000 clients worldwide.  Live Nation Concerts is the largest provider of live entertainment in the world promoting more than 50,000 events annually for nearly 7,000 artists in 40+ countries. These businesses allow Live Nation Media & Sponsorship to create strategic music marketing programs that connect more than 1,200 sponsors with the 145 million fans that attend Live Nation Entertainment events each year. For additional information, visit www.livenationentertainment.com.

WHO ARE YOU?

Passionate and motivated. Driven, with an entrepreneurial spirit. Resourceful, innovative, forward thinking and committed. At Live Nation Entertainment, our people embrace these qualities, so if this sounds like you then please read on! 

THE JOB

Live Nation is looking for a highly motivated and organized individual to be a critical part of driving project management in the organization focusing on global touring. This role will be responsible for working with stakeholders and cross divisional partners to establish clear milestones and deliverables, to set timelines and a roadmap to delivery. This candidate will enable collaboration across teams, while establishing clear accountability and ensuring timely delivery of project deliverables. This individual will be a self-starter and see projects through to completion while also supporting one of the executives.

WHAT THIS ROLE WILL DO

• Manage administration for tours of all sizes
• Gather and manage calendar avails and holds
• Create and complete tour routings
• Work on global tours
• Ability to effectively collaborate and communicate with individuals across diverse personalities, cultures, and global backgrounds.
• Experience working with international artists, tours, and cross-cultural business partners.
• Create and oversee completion of tour files like confirmations, contacts, offers, pot trackers, and more
• Develop and maintain tour files and ensure organized properly
• Utilize TM1 and other systems to gather and review ticketing related data to advise on decision making.
• Ensure industry and guest ticketing requests are handled.
• Work with tour finance on reporting needs and to complete & track weekly artist payments.
• Create reports as needed and distribute to pertinent internal and external stakeholders.
• Create business plans and maintain deal sheets for potential tours with supervision and review
• Gather data and research as needed for Tour Promoter & Director
• Review artist contracts per company guidelines.
• Liaise with artists/agents/managers and related industry participants.
• Manage interactions with other departments (i.e. marketing, ticketing, etc.)
• Responsible for overseeing and managing the day-to-day execution of small to mid size domestic tour deals and coordination with local Live Nation offices and 3rd Party Venues.

WHAT THIS PERSON WILL BRING

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or comparable work experience 
• 2+ years experience in the live music business and working with live events 
• Passionate about music and live experiences
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
• Must be able to work under pressure to meet strict deadlines.
• Work well in a team environment
• Ability to prioritize and meet deadlines
• Excellent attention to detail
• Ability to recognize organizational and define problems, collect information, establish facts, and implement innovative solutions.
• Highly organized
• Proactive work ethic
• Strong computer skills: word processing, spreadsheets, PowerPoint, Salesforce, Concur
• Ability to learn and efficiently use project management software/tools
• Ability to juggle multiple priorities and to work in an environment that is constantly changing
• Flexibility to work a varying schedule, including evenings and weekends, based on business needs
• Ability to travel when necessary

BENEFITS & PERKS

Our motto is ‘Taking Care of Our Own’ through 6 pillars of benefits:

HEALTH: Medical, vision, dental and mental health benefits for you and your family, with access to a health care concierge, and Flexible or Health Savings Accounts (FSA or HSA)

YOURSELF: Free concert tickets, generous paid time off including paid holidays, sick time, and personal days

WEALTH: 401(k) program with company match, stock reimbursement program

FAMILY: New parent programs including caregiver leave, plus fertility, adoption, foster, or surrogacy support

CAREER: Career and skill development programs with School of Live, tuition reimbursement, and student loan repayment

OTHERS: Volunteer time off, crowdfunding match

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

We aspire to build teams that reflect and support the fans and artists we serve. Every day we aim to promote environments where everyone can be themselves, contribute fully, and thrive within our company and at our events. 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. 

Live Nation strongly supports equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of age (40 and over), ancestry, color, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), family and medical care leave or the denial of family and medical care leave, mental or physical disability (including HIV and AIDS), marital status, domestic partner status, medical condition (including cancer and genetic characteristics), genetic information, military and veteran status, political affiliation, national origin (including language use restrictions), citizenship, race, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth or breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, and gender expression, sexual orientation, intersectionality, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state or local law, rule, ordinance or regulation. 

We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance, San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act and consistent with other similar and / or applicable laws in other areas.

We also afford equal employment opportunities to qualified individuals with a disability. For this reason, Live Nation will make reasonable accommodations for the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified individual with a disability who is an applicant consistent with its legal obligations to do so, including reasonable accommodations related to pregnancy in accordance with applicable local, state and / or federal law. As part of its commitment to make reasonable accommodations, Live Nation also wishes to participate in a timely, good faith, interactive process with a disabled applicant to determine effective reasonable accommodations, if any, which can be made in response to a request for accommodations. Applicants are invited to identify reasonable accommodations that can be made to assist them to perform the essential functions of the position they seek. Any applicant who requires an accommodation in order to perform the essential functions of the job should contact a Human Resources Representative to request the opportunity to participate in a timely interactive process.  Live Nation will also provide reasonable religious accommodations on a case-by-case basis.

HIRING PRACTICES
The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

Live Nation recruitment policies are designed to place the most highly qualified persons available in a timely and efficient manner. Live Nation may pursue all avenues available, including promotion from within, employee referrals, outside advertising, employment agencies, internet recruiting, job fairs, college recruiting and search firms. Live Nation may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support application screening and assessment. All hiring decisions are made with human review.

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The expected compensation for this position is:

$64,000.00 USD - $80,000.00 USD

** Pay is based on a number of factors including market location, qualifications, skills, and experience.

Live Nation Entertainment will never request payment or equipment purchases as part of the hiring process. Recruiters will only contact candidates from official Live Nation or affiliated brand email domains.