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 ROLE

Live Nation is looking for a Food & Beverage Project Manager to coordinate creative needs for all food and drink strategies that enhance the voice of our Live Nation owned and operated venues. Working with the Food & Beverage Creative Operations Director and the Senior Project Manager, the Food & Beverage Project Manager will coordinate with F&B operators, vendors and in house creative teams to produce creative assets that enhance the venue experience for our fans and create venues that artists want to play at. The ideal Food & Beverage Project Manager should have a creative eye for executing brand guidelines, a mastery in managing creative production processes, and communication skills to pull it all together to drive key brand business objectives.

WHAT THIS ROLE WILL DO

• Work directly with the F&B creative operations team to deliver content across food & beverage portfolio to enhance the fan experience and drive continued sales.

• Manage new concept development alongside creative and brand teams to ensure all aspects of the business are reflected within the design requests.

• Collaborate with each of the Amphitheater Food & Beverage Directors to understand the unique nature of each of their venues while threading consistency from the master strategy. Manage their signage and menu needs by submitting into the creative request channels as well as coordinating the install of larger projects.

• Partner with Club and Large Indoor Food & Beverage teams to understand the unique business and manage their creative requests to encompass naming and pricing strategies from the master plan.

• Aligns with local venue management to ensure that all signage needs fall within their budget and has their final approval prior to install.

• Actively contribute in managing best practices and F&B data for easy review of needs. This would include signage, sizing and reference materials.

• Work alongside the Premium Food & Beverage Managers to ensure that all aspects of fan facing materials are representative of the premium environment.

• Work alongside creative production team and freelance support to ensure all F&B items to be captured are planned for, properly delivered and prepared for use throughout Venue Nation touchpoints.

• Work within our project management platform to track production progress and ensure partners deliver brand assets on time and within budget

• Ensure creative assets are built to specifications and meet quality standards

• Organize creative assets for handoff to internal and external production partners

• Maintain relationships with internal and external creative production resources

• Track and process creative production costs and invoices

• At all times, ensure fan experience is top priority

WHAT THIS PERSON WILL BRING

• Strong communication and organizational qualities

• Understanding of general food and beverage service standards.

• High proficiency in Airtable and Slack

• Ability to clearly communicate creative requirements

• Deep understanding of brand creative production

• Knowledge of creative design resources and their workflows

• Adaptive listener

• Knowledge of onsite fan experiences and a sharp eye for popular culture, trends, and visual aesthetics

• Ability to travel to Live Nation venues around the country to learn and observe brand implementation

• Familiarity with digital, print and video design specifications

• A customer service excellence mindset

• “Swiss army knife” that can work across each venue style and concept partner from start to completion

• A problem-solving aptitude

• Ability to adapt, communicate and manage in a fast-paced environment

• Strong time management skills and attention to detail

• Creativity skills and problem-solving aptitude

• Proactive work ethic

• Desire to stay in tune with latest brand trends and processes

• Passionate about music and live experiences

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:

• High level creative direction experience in live music entertainment or venue industry related field

• Previous leadership experience and staffing

• Expertise in Adobe Creative Suite and other creative applications

• Strong portfolio of previous and current design or directed work

• Ability to learn and efficiently use project management software/tools

• Experience with digital asset management systems and workflows

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 and baby bonuses, 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.