Job Summary: LIVE NATION ENTERTAINMENT 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. LIVE NATION MEDIA & SPONSORSHIP Our Media & Sponsorship division employs a sales and marketing team that creates and maintains relationships with sponsors through a combination of strategic global, national and regional opportunities tied to our concerts, festivals, venues, ticketing assets, websites and custom experiences. We work with our brand partners to develop marketing programs that connect them directly to fans and artists. Our ultimate job is to leverage the power of live music to drive our brand partners’ business. BRAND MANAGEMENT Sitting within Live Nation Media & Sponsorship, the Brand Management team is a collection of ambitious, resourceful, passionate, and strategic-minded individuals that thrive in an environment full of variables and unknowns. Seamlessly moving between music strategy presentations, on-site festival activations, social media plans, and client hospitality events, we collaborate with every team at Live Nation to drive our clients’ businesses and brands forward. Team members will be directly involved with the following: + Client Relationship & Service + Business Development & Growth + Program Activation & Performance + Innovation & Optimization + Financial Planning & Reporting + Team Management & Development THE JOB The Senior Brand Manager will be on the Ticket Access team and manage day-to-day relationships and activities of Live Nation’s strategic marketing partnership with our top corporate brands within our team’s portfolio of management. You will be directly involved in maximizing the value of the client relationship and performance of client’s entertainment marketing programs with a focus on: + Marketing execution on both Live Nation and brand partner owned platforms + Liaise between brand partner and Live Nation National & Local Tour Marketing teams + Data Analysis, Reporting and deck creation + Innovation & Growth WHAT THIS ROLE WILL DO + Provides professional, responsive service to clients that ultimately exceeds expectations and builds trust between the client and Live Nation + Continuously strengthen day-to-day client relationships as well as grow relationships with key client contacts outside of the day-to-day team to support potential renewal and growth of sponsorship programs + Primarily liaise between brand partner, LN touring and artist representatives to secure and market exclusive ticket offers (such as pre-sales, preferred, discounted, special ticket offers) for brand partner’s customers. + Help lead brand partner marketing creative and messaging to promote the offers in tour advertising, artist marketing channels, press, social media, etc. + Review tour marketing assets with brand inclusion for approval to ensure brand partner inclusion meets brand guidelines. + Ability to read and understand basic tour marketing media plans to ensure Brand commitment is being fulfilled. + Work with the Live Nation ticketing directors and local venue box offices to ensure brand partners ticket offer is set up correctly and within the correct timeline. Ensure the ticket quality and quantity for the brand partner offer meets contractual guidelines. + Help manage brand partners yearly tour media budget and send regular updates to brand partner of budget status. + Work with Live Nation Finance team and Live Nation tour marketers to reconcile each tour media spend when the brand partner has committed incremental media dollars to support ticket offers. + Gather, analyze, and package key metrics, learnings and development opportunities into program recaps that are delivered in a timely manner. + Develop basic understanding of LN Digital, Mobile and Social Media assets and work with Planning team to ensure proper execution of sponsorship-based media plans. + Support program financials including budget tracking, billing, invoicing, tour media budget reconciliations and other relevant financial activities. + Explore marketing trends, emerging technologies, and best practices to add value to sponsorship programs. + Support department wide development initiatives. + Assists Brand Director, VP of Brand Management, Creative team, and Integrated Marketing team, with developing strategic roadmap, creative programs, and business development/growth opportunities for key client relationships + Gathers, analyzes, and packages key metrics, learnings and growth opportunities into program recaps that demonstrate delivery of objectives and return-on-investment + Solves problems proactively with timely updates to manager and escalates challenges that require additional attention + Proactively support peers including helping new staff assimilate into Live Nation and mentoring early-career professionals and College Associates/Interns + Participates in learning and development sessions that support their annual professional development and growth plans WHAT THIS PERSON WILL BRING + Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, communications, or a related field of study + 5-8 years of direct experience in brand or account management, client service, media, or entertainment, and/or marketing consulting, advertising or activation agencies + 1-2 years of direct employee and/or agency management experience + Strong project management skills including ability to communicate, prioritize, manage, and organize simultaneous projects and deadlines + Excellent communication skills – written, verbal, presentation and visual storytelling + A proactive, collaborative, and organized working style + Excellent interpersonal skills for building relationships internally and externally + Track record of working with recognizable global brands and growing client relationships + Experience with marketing programs across physical and digital components preferred + Record of success building, selling, and delivering innovative marketing programs with measurable results + Ability to proactively identify potential problems and utilize sound decision making to implement the best solutions, relying on managers to provide input and solutions only when necessary + Knowledge of consumer and market research with ability to integrate sponsorship program recommendations, recaps and other client-oriented communications + Proficiency in enterprise technology platforms including Microsoft Office, Keynote, Salesforce, Slack, Asana, Tableau or other relevant applications + Strong passion for music, including knowledge of relevant artists and industry trends + Ability to travel up to 30% of time or more in season, often nights and weekends and occasionally without significant advanced notice 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 PRACTICESThe 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. ------- The expected compensation for this position is: $70,000 - $75,000 ** Pay is based on a number of factors including market location, qualifications, skills, and experience.