Merchandise Specialist - VB Amphitheater

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 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.

Live Nation’s Concerts Division is where tours are born, artists come to life, and fans get to experience the rush of live music. From our dozens of owned/operated Amphitheaters to our Global Touring team, from Ticketing and Venue Operations to Marketing and Sales... we foster a fun and upbeat work culture with no shortage of opportunities. With perks ranging from free concert tickets to dog-friendly offices, to progressive benefits like student loan reimbursement and adoption/fertility support... it’s no wonder we are certified as a Great Place to Work organization and one of People Magazine’s “50 Companies that Care”. We want everyone to feel like they belong and can thrive in our community, so we strive to help you achieve your career and personal goals. Live music is our passion and where we find our common ground. There has never been a better time to join Live Nation.

WHO ARE YOU?

Employees have a leading role in the service experience our guests have. The extent to which we recognize our employees for service well done, is the extent to which they will care not only for the guests, but for each other.  

That’s why SAFETY for employees and guests is our first priority. We show CARE around every corner and look to create ENCORE moments of service excellence for everyone. And our commitment to EFFICIENCY, is our way of staying well-organized.  So, join us! We need these kinds of skills and talents as we Create Once in a Lifetime Experiences for our Fans. 

THE JOB

Job Description

• Are you someone that enjoys working in a fast-moving environment?  Do you enjoy live music?  Do you enjoy working with a team of people supporting a common goal?  Are you someone that thrives in guest interaction roles?  Then the Live Nation Merchandise Specialist position may be the right opportunity for you.  Merchandise Specialists are directly supervised by the venue’s Merchandise Manager.  They arrive at a concert venue on show day and immediately jump into motion.  Artist merchandise needs to be inventoried, distributed, and displayed for sale.  When the gates open, fans rush into the venue to buy their shirts, hats, and posters, and they flock to you.  You fulfill their orders quickly and carefully while taking the time to make each fan smile.  After the show is over, you help the team reassemble the remaining merchandise.  Once reconciliation is complete and the merchandise returned to the Artist, you head home, knowing you put in a full day’s work.

WHAT THIS ROLE WILL DO

Objectives of the Role

• Provide an exceptional merchandise purchasing experience for all guests and fans in Live Nation venues
• Fulfill the order of guests in a timely fashion, ensuring they receive the correct items and sizes as requested
• Accurately ring-up guest purchases in Live Nation’s sales system
• Act as a brand ambassador for Live Nation, its local sponsors, and the venue

Duties & Responsibilities

• Participate in inventory count-in and count-out procedures
• Create visually appealing displays and price items correctly
• Complete sales transactions for each guest
• Support successful sales operations at each event
• Contribute to a positive work environment
• Perform physical duties as required by the role, such as moving equipment or transferring merchandise between locations
• Take direction from their supervisor, the venue’s Merchandise Manager

WHAT THIS PERSON WILL BRING

Skills & Qualifications

• Specialists are detail oriented, supporting accuracy and completeness in order fulfillment
• Specialists are quick thinking and able to respond to guest requests
• Specialists are guest oriented, focusing on their requests
• Specialists must be team-driven, working as part of a larger unit
• Specialists need the ability to interact with guests politely
• Specialists should be self-starters that do not require significant supervision
• Specialists must have basic math skills – addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division

Experience

• Guest service positions desirable
• Retail sales backgrounds not necessary
• Positions that leverage customer service or hospitality
• Prior experience is not as important as the appropriate attitude and interpersonal skills

Job Requirements

• Must be 18 yrs. of age or older
• Must be able to available for the entire concert day, with shifts as long as 15 hours (with breaks)
• Must be able to stand for long periods of time
• Must be able to lift up to a 50 pound box
• Must be able to work in outdoor environments in potential extreme temperatures
• Must have a working understanding of touch-screen based systems
• Must be of legal working age in the state

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

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, race, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability status or caring responsibilities.

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, 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.

**Please note that the compensation information provided is a good faith estimate for this position only and is provided pursuant to the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act and Equal Pay Transparency Rules. It is estimated based on what a successful Colorado applicant might be paid. It assumes that the successful candidate will be in Colorado or perform the position from Colorado. Similar positions located outside of

Colorado will not necessarily receive the same compensation. Live Nation takes into consideration a candidate’s education, training, and experience, as well as the position’s work location, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value, including seniority and merit systems, and internal pay alignment when determining the salary level for potential new employees. In compliance with the CO EPEWA, a potential new employee’s salary history will not be used in compensation decisions.