Ln Concerts, Junior Talent Buyer - Creative Content

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?

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!

Role:

The Junior Talent Buyer position within the Created Content Department at Live Nation is seeking an individual who will play a vital role in the booking process, event coordination, marketing & promotion, show advancing, and settlement processes. Reporting directly to the Sr. Director of Created Content, this role involves close collaboration with the Created Content talent buying team and various Live Nation stakeholders nationwide. Responsibilities include assisting in managing booking calendars to assess venue availability / hold status, facilitating the confirmation of shows, and supporting marketing strategies by compiling ticket sales counts, assisting with promotional offers, and coordinating marketing efforts across multiple promotional channels to drive additional ticket sales. The ideal candidate will also help coordinate new shows, distribute marketing materials, and aid our team, thereby contributing to the overall success of our events. Additionally, taking a proactive approach to tasks such as date clearance, contract management, and venue booking will be essential in driving seamless event execution and success, while also gaining valuable experience in talent buying, marketing, promotion, and event coordination within the industry. Candidates with extensive music knowledge, experience in nightlife, social media knowledge, and marketing skills are highly desirable for this role.

Key Responsibilities:

• Calendar Management: Assist with comprehensive and up-to-date schedule using weekly searches and updates for all available venues. Then Track venue availability. Assist clearing event dates with buyers and GMs. After date(s) are cleared track next steps, including offer creation, confirmation, marketing, contracts, show settlement, NSRs … etc.

• Marketing Support: Help compile weekly ticket sales and assist in implementing actionable marketing strategies. Including all marketing channels, Email Campaigns, promotional activities on social media.

• Show Offers: Help review Offers in ROME (SALESFORCE). Once approved, help send out as needed. Remove all dated, stale, or unapproved offers from ROME (SALESFORCE). Help create, track, and remove all current holds in ROME (SALESFORCE).

• Show Confirmations: Help prepare show confirmation templates sent to GMs, Buyers. Coordinate and track new shows, Announce dates, pre-sales, on-sales, tours, date, and rescheduling.

• Marketing Assets: Help secure, distribute marketing materials/assets, marketing confirmation letters to LN marketing teams and/ box office.

• Artist Advance Coordination: Help send artist advance info to PMs and GMs - Artist riders, wire / ACH, settlement instructions, and W9s.

• Settlement Reports: Assist attaining settlement reports and distributing to agents/promoters. Send signed Settlements back to PMs/GMs/Accounting.

• Contracts: Help redline and add LN Template to all contracts for signature. Send signed contracts to agents, promoters, and GMs/PMs. Help create Contracts for Promoters who don’t send their own contracts.

• Weekly Tracker: After review with team, highlight show by show events that need subcategory changes.

• Tracking Existing and New Parties : Update Created Content spreadsheets as needed with social media, IG, website and IP decks uploaded into BOX for group sharing and disbursement to GMs or Buyers.

• Created Content Deck: Help design, update Created Content Deck(s) and Promoter Deck(s) as needed.

• Scheduling: Help as needed create meetings for Created Content Team with Buyers, GMs, existing promoters and potential partners.

• New IP and Parties: Attend as needed attend various parties and venues. Assist in the A&R process for new parties.

• Assist Booking Smaller Venues: Help book smaller parties into smaller rooms as needed.

BENEFITS & PERKS - Our motto is ‘Taking Care of Our Own’ through 6 pillars of benefits:

• HEALTH: Medical, Dental and Vision benefits for you and your family, including Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Health Savings Accounts (HSAs)
• YOURSELF: Paid time off policy including holidays, sick time and day off for your birthday, free concert tickets
• WEALTH: 401(k) program with company match, Stock Program Reimbursement
• FAMILY: New parent programs & support including caregiver leave and baby bonus, infertility support
• CAREER: Tuition reimbursement, student loan repayment internal growth and development programs & trainings
• OTHERS: Volunteer time off, crowdfunding network

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.

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The expected compensation for this position in California is:

**Please note that the compensation information provided is a good faith estimate for this position only and is provided pursuant to the California Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements Law. It is estimated based on what a successful California applicant might be paid. It assumes that the successful candidate will be in California or perform the position from California. Similar positions located outside of California 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 California Law, a potential new employee’s salary history will not be used in compensation decisions.