Job Summary:
Associate Promoter
Company: Big Concerts / Live Nation South Africa
Department: Promotions
Location: Century City, Cape Town
Reports to: Head Promoter
Working Hours: 40 hours per week, plus additional hours as required by the business
Role Description
The Promoting department is responsible for promoting live events throughout South Africa every year. We are looking for a hard-working, vibrant individual to assist on all aspects of this incredibly busy, exciting and often fast moving business. The role is primarily to assist with the building of a rounded touring roster of across music, sporting and family events. The Associate Promoter will learn and refine the essentials skills needed to successfully promote a varied programme of events with the aim to develop the successful candidate into a Promoter.
Who you are
Competencies / Skills / Knowledge / Experience
- Effective Communicator
- Ability to work spreadsheets and databases – good working knowledge of MS Office
- Good interpersonal, relationship management and negotiation skills
- Ability to plan and organise own workload in an incredibly fast paced environment
- Knowledge of venue/general touring industry and a keen interest in music/concerts would be advantageous
- Ability to establish and develop relationships within the Music industry
- Experience with putting on events/concerts
- Strong level of numeracy and good excel skills
- Strong administration skills
- Love of live music essential
- High level of initiative, self-motivated and conscientious
Behaviours
The following attributes determine how the role will be carried out and are required to be a success
- Attention to detail
- Flexible approach
- Ability to lead from the front showing best practice across all disciplines
- High level of initiative, self-motivated and conscientious while also being a great team player
- Develops fresh ideas that provide solutions to all types of workplace challenges;
- Promotes cooperation and commitment within a team to achieve goals and deliverables
What the role includes
- Assist promoters to secure booking of artists.
- Sourcing availabilities with venues and routing tours
- Develop relations with artists, their managers and agents.
- Collating and sending guest lists.
- Processing artist contracts.
- Managing holds, challenging dates, keeping records of what is held.
- Gathering venue and tour information to prepare accurate tour costings and budget templates.
- Confirming shows with stakeholders, sending and updating tour itineraries.
- Processing show sign offs and placing insurance for shows.
- Working closely with other team assistants/administrators to ensure artist/venue contracts and work permits are processed in timely manner.
- To project tour sales and keep up to date with ongoing tours from confirmation to show date – highlighting problem areas.
- Updating reps with correct info.
- Dealing with all incoming queries from internal departments (accounts, ticketing, marketing etc) and external contacts (agents, venues, other promoters, etc)
- To work with Promoter and develop new talent and aim to bring artists into LN covering a number of genres
- Attend events in evenings and on weekends.
- Ensure all relevant parties (artist / agent / venue staff) have all relevant information to placate a smooth-running concert or event.
- Taking lead on certain shows or acts from a more senior promoter.
- Ultimately developing and securing the booking of own artists for Live Nation under own PNL.
- Attending internal new bands and Promoters meetings and providing relevant updates for those meetings
- Working with the agreed framework and controls when budgeting & producing artists’ offers, ensuring transparency and that best value has been secured for Live Nation.
Equal Opportunities
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.
The Company
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
