About the Role
Live Nation UK's Research and Insights Team is seeking a highly organised and commercially minded insights professional to join as a Director of Research and Insights. This role empowers the business with a deep understanding of live music fans, enhancing the event experience and providing actionable insights to better connect and engage the audience.
Responsibilities
- Support the Head of R+I in embedding data and insights across the organisation.
- Empower teams to make informed commercial decisions.
- Oversee end-to-end delivery of quant and qual research projects.
- Balance hands-on execution with effective oversight of team and vendor delivery.
- Structure and manage multiple concurrent workstreams.
- Ensure clear prioritisation, resource allocation, timelines and accountability across the team.
- Line manage and support team members.
- Help develop capabilities while maintaining high standards of delivery and efficient ways of working.
- Conduct advanced analysis across multiple datasets, including market-research, first-party data, and social listening outputs.
- Uncover commercially actionable insights.
- Present research findings clearly and concisely to internal stakeholders.
- Ensure insights are commercially relevant and actionable.
Requirements
- Proven experience in market research and/or consumer insights from both client-side and agency environments.
- Ability to design, analyse and translate findings into actionable insights.
- Strong knowledge of qualitative methodologies, including drafting discussion guides and moderating focus groups.
- Proficiency in statistical tools (e.g. DisplayR or equivalent).
- Proficiency in data visualisation platforms (e.g. Tableau) for creating dashboards and reports.
- Proficiency in social media listening tools (e.g. Meltwater Buzz) to extract actionable insights.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with experience influencing cross-functional teams.
- Commercial acumen to align research findings into business strategies and measurable outcomes.
- Strong communication skills with a track record of presenting clear and compelling research findings to diverse internal stakeholders.
- Highly organised, commercially minded, and solutions-oriented.
- Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on delivery in a fast-paced environment.
- Comfortable managing multiple priorities simultaneously.
- Ability to bring structure and clarity to complex projects.
- Ability to keep teams aligned and moving forward.
- Strong judgement in how insights are applied to business challenges.
- Use data and audience understanding to shape clear, actionable recommendations.
- Confident managing upwards and downwards.
- Able to provide clear visibility and prioritise effectively.
- Able to support teams to deliver high-quality work across multiple concurrent initiatives.
Skills
- Quantitative methodologies (e.g. MaxDiff, Conjoint, Segmentation)
- Qualitative methodologies
- Statistical tools (e.g. DisplayR or equivalent)
- Data visualisation platforms (e.g. Tableau)
- Social media listening tools (e.g. Meltwater Buzz)
- Stakeholder management
- Commercial acumen
- Communication skills
- Insight generation
- Storytelling
- Strategic application of data
Location
- Farringdon, London
Work Type
- Full time
- Permanent
Experience Level
- Director
Benefits
- Tickets to shows and festivals
- Unlimited annual leave
- Arcade games in the basement games room
- Onsite gym equipment
- Fitness and meditation classes
- Fully stocked complimentary coffee bar with barista
- Heavily subsidised lunch options
- Regular staff events in atrium stage space including hosting speakers and open mic nights
About 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
Equal 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 identity, race, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability status or caring responsibilities.
