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.

WHO ARE YOU?

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

THE TEAM

The Sponsorship Ticketing team is the get stuff done, turn-problems-into-solutions, make our clients look like the rock stars, driving force within the Live Nation Media & Sponsorship division. We are a collection of resourceful, ambitious, and strategic-minded individuals that thrive in an environment full of variables and unknowns. If you like to sit at a desk, write white papers, and theorize on how things should work this is not the job or team for you. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, we should talk.

THE JOB

The Contractor – Ticket Access position covers many areas. Primarily, they assist the Ticketing Managers and Associates who oversee all ticket offer operational aspects of the sponsorship contract as well as future LNE sponsorship agreements. This includes analyzing event reports for partner’s ticket offers, entering and maintaining workbook of event data, QA for ticket offers, diagnosing offer-related issues and reporting to ticket agency, box office or ticket director, working as an operational liaison between ticket agency, the Ticketing Manager and Brand Management teams. They will also advise for potential tool development, efficiency gains, and process streamlining to maintain a high operational support for our sponsor clients.

The position supports internal projects relating to LNE sponsorship deals, assisting in new product sponsorship support and development, as well as being involved in key requirements from Ticketing Managers, Brand Managers, eCommerce, OnTour, and other National support teams related to cross-functional sponsorship offers.

WHAT THIS ROLE WILL DO

• Maintain weekly event data for partner’s sponsored venues, including collection and formatting of event links, capacities and allotments, sales data, etc.
• Communicate with ticket access team, box office and ticket directors concerning partner’s ticket offers
• Conduct QA on ticket offers to ensure build standardization, proper allotments, password associations, etc.
• Research and address customer service issues related to clients not being able to access tix
• General support of sponsorship promotional ticket offers
• Other projects as assigned

WHAT THIS PERSON WILL BRING

Background & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• Must have minimum of 2 years ticketing experience in a box office or with a ticket agency
• Excellent time management and organizational skills
• Knowledge of Secondary Market and Sponsorship initiatives
• Functional knowledge of ticketing Channels: Ticketmaster, AXS, Paciolan, etc.
• Ability to read and interpret ticket sales reports
• Basic HTML preferred

Qualifications & Skills

• Superior project management skills including managing multiple projects simultaneously
• Excellent communication skills – written, verbal and presentation
• A proactive, collaborative, and organized working style
• Proven ability to work calmly and efficiently under pressure
• Ability to quickly adapt and adjust projects to new expectations & direction
• Proficiency in office applications, especially Excel, Google Sheets, Word, Outlook, etc.
• Strong passion for music, including knowledge of current/relevant artists and industry trends

Applicants for employment in the U.S. must possess work authorization which does not require sponsorship by the employer for a visa.

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.

The expected compensation for this position is: $25/hr

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