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House of Blues Ticketing Associate in Chicago, Illinois
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 BRAND MANAGEMENT TICKETING TEAM
The Brand Management 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 Ticketing Associate position covers many areas. Primarily, they will assist the Ticketing Managers who oversee all ticket offer operational aspects of the sponsorship contract, as well as future potential LNE sponsorship agreements. This includes daily, weekly, monthly reporting, weekly password creation/ distribution/ management, spec management, including but not limited to, creation, updates, and area distribution, QA for ticket offers, diagnosing offer related issues, working as an operational liaison between the local market and sponsorship brand managers, and providing comprehensive reporting to internal and external 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 Ticketing Associate also will generally support 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
Collect data and analyze market / consumer efficiencies for client / internal reporting
Collect event links and event ID’s
Double check sponsor offers in TM1
Assist the Ticketing Managers with daily, weekly, monthly reporting
General support of sponsorship promotional ticket offers
Conduct QA on ticket offers to ensure build standardization and correct association of passwords
Manage any customer service issues related to clients not being able to access tickets.
WHAT THIS PERSON WILL BRING
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
Must have minimum of 2 years Event Programming experience
Knowledge of Secondary Market, OnTour and Sponsorship initiatives
Functional knowledge of TM Channels: ticketmaster.com, livenation.com, TM1, Mobile and TAP, Agent PCI, IVR (Hermes)
Functional knowledge of Password Server and the Event QA Tool
Basic HTML preferred
Superior project management skills including managing multiple projects simultaneously
Excellent communication skills – written, verbal and presentation
Proven ability to work calmly and efficiently under pressure
Ability to quickly adapt and adjust projects to new expectations & direction
Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications including Word, PowerPoint, and Excel
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.
BENEFITS & PERKS
Our motto is ‘Taking Care of Our Own’ through 6 pillars of benefits:
HEALTH: Medical, Vision and Dental benefits for you and your family, including Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Health Savings Accounts (HSAs)
YOURSELF: Generous paid time off policy including paid holidays, sick time and paid days off for your birthday, Free concert tickets
WEALTH: 401(k) program with company match, Stock Program
FAMILY: New parent programs & support including caregiver leave and baby bonuses, infertility support
CAREER: Tuition reimbursement, student loan repayment internal growth and development programs & trainings
OTHERS: Volunteer time off, crowdfunding network
Live Nation’s policy regarding vaccinations and masking related to a pandemic or other infectious disease control measures, acts of God, health and safety mandates and/or restrictions imposed by applicable local, state or federal governments has evolved over time. Currently, we strongly encourage employees to be fully vaccinated from such infectious diseases for which vaccinations are available. You are expected to follow Live Nation’s health and safety protocols and policies as they change from time to time.
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 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 firm