Brand Associate Jobs in Norwalk, CT (NOW HIRING)

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, visitwww.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 BRAND MANAGEMENT TEAM

The Brand Management team is the get stuff done, turn-problems-into-solutions, make our clients look like the rock stars, driving force within the Live NationMedia & 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, weshould talk.

THE JOB

The Brand Associate manages the day-to-day relationship and activities of Live Nation's strategic marketing partnership with our top corporate brands within our team's portfolio of management. You will focus on a key financial services partner. This role will have an emphasis on supporting initiatives across events, venues, and reporting. They will be directly involved in maximizing the value of the client relationship and performance of client's entertainment marketing programs with a focus on:

• Client Relationship Service

• Program Activation & Performance

• Financial Performance, Budget Planning & Reporting

• Team Management & Development

• Innovation & Growth

WHAT THIS ROLE WILL DO

• Support the planning, execution, and on-site delivery of custom events, artist experiences, hospitality programs, and festival activations in partnership with venue staff, production leads, and agency partners

• Own meeting agendas, recap notes, and next-step alignment to ensure every discussion drives progress, while executing and optimizing internal processes

• Help coordinate and ideate client programming across the Live Nation venue network

• Provide professional, responsive service to clients that ultimately exceeds expectations and increases likelihood of program renewal

• Coordinate / prepare periodic client status calls and/or meetings including the preparation of program reports and delivery of post call reports

• Oversee the delivery of contractual agreements including planning, execution, measurement, and reporting

• Coordinate the planning and execution of key client activations across venues, festivals, promotions, media, hospitality, and content programs

• Gather, analyze, and package key metrics, learnings and development opportunities into program recaps that are delivered in a timely manner

• Manage program financials including budget tracking, billing, invoicing, and other relevant financial activities

• Explore marketing trends, emerging technologies, and best practices to add value to sponsorship programs

• Additional responsibilities as requested from Manager and/or Senior Management as requested

• Represents Live Nation with a commitment to integrity, respect for others, inclusivity, collaboration and professionalism

WHAT THIS PERSON WILL BRING

• 2+ years direct experience in brand management, client service, media, or entertainment, and/or marketing consulting, advertising or activation agencies

• Experience with marketing programs that blend physical and digital components preferred

• Proficiency with reporting and data analysis

• Knowledge of consumer and market research with ability to implement into decision-making and management

• Superior project management skills including managing multiple projects simultaneously

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications including Word, PowerPoint, and Excel

• Strong passion for music, including knowledge of current/relevant artists and industry trends

• Ability to travel up to 30% of time or more in season, often nights and weeks 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, 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.

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The expected compensation for this position is: $66,300 USD

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

Live Nation Entertainment will never request payment or equipment purchases as part of the hiring process. Recruiters will only contact candidates from official Live Nation or affiliated brand email domains.