Director, Stakeholder Relations

Job Description

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 30,000 shows and 95+ 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 900 brands with the 86 million fans that attend Live Nation Entertainment events each year.

Who are you?

You are business minded, persuasive and a first class communicator – comfortable having conversations with senior stakeholders to drive sponsorship objectives in a busy, complex music space.

The Role:

The Marketing Partnerships team is seeking an accomplished sponsorship professional to help manage comms flows and information from our multiple senior stakeholders and their teams, across our festival and venue operations. The role is for a maternity cover till the end of November working into the VP, Strategic Partnerships.

The right candidate will be comfortable in our fast paced environment and ever evolving live landscape. Maintaining consistent two-way dialogue with our stakeholders, and within our department, they will be adept at honing in on win-win opportunities for our team, brands and stakeholders alike, as well as being able to identify any potential bottle necks and working through any work arounds and solutions. Organised and efficient, they will ensure the vast amounts of incoming information is shared and saved, as appropriate.

The role is to support the VP and department in bringing festival directors into our long-term vision, and paving the way for co-ownership of the strategic growth plan. Understanding the businesses within our portfolio, and the people behind them, smoothing the way to a greater productive outcome for all, is the end game.

Responsibilities
• Maintain senior relationships with all our stakeholders.
• Ensure consistent dialogue and diarise regular business updates with festival teams.
• Follow up promptly on material developments to Management team, department and/ or System 20 (our internal information hub).
• Guide stakeholders and ensure they have a full understanding of what we need from them to reach our common goals.
• Facilitate department introductions and connecting the right people where necessary.
• Work across department on any stakeholder related projects, ensuring our overall comms and processes are streamlined and efficient.
• Onboard Festival Director teams from newly acquired businesses.
• Support the President & VP Strategic Partnerships in maximising opportunity long term.

Requirements

Competencies/ Skills / Knowledge / Experience
• Thorough understanding of live music landscape
• Clear understanding of the marketing process and the value of LN assets as promotional / business changing propositions for partners
• High level stakeholder or relationship management
• Understanding of the promoter and festival processes

Behaviours

The following attributes determine how the role will be carried out and are required to be a success:
• Initiative and self motivation
• Naturally influential and persuasive
• A people person and 1st Class communicator (both written and verbal) – confident, friendly and professional yet firm, able to build a rapport with all types of people
• Strong administration and time management
• An organised working style
• Effective at managing multiple tasks at a time
• A highly motivated, tenacious and conscientious individual who takes pride in delivering work to the highest standard
• Ability to plan, anticipate problems and how best to address them
• Ability to process and simplify large amounts of information.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-re8nw2-18-117-152-251-42 in your application.