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About the Role

M&C Saatchi Talent is seeking a highly organised, commercially minded, and creatively driven candidate to join the LiveX Team as Tour Manager. This role focuses on the creation, planning, management, and delivery of talent-led live theatre and arena tours across the UK and internationally. The successful candidate will lead existing touring projects and identify new touring opportunities for M+C Saatchi’s talent roster and wider network. This is a mid-to-senior level role requiring confidence in managing the full tour lifecycle, from creative development and budgeting to ticketing strategy, marketing, production, logistics, contract management, and live delivery. The role is key to scaling the LiveX touring offering, developing new IP-owned concepts, strengthening promoter and venue relationships, and supporting the division's commercial growth.

Responsibilities

• Lead the planning, management, and delivery of talent-led live theatre, arena, and touring projects across the UK and internationally.
• Manage existing tour projects from development through to completion, ensuring commercial viability, creative strength, and operational delivery.
• Identify, develop, and pitch new touring opportunities for M+C Saatchi Talent’s roster and wider talent network.
• Create and develop IP-owned touring concepts, collaborating with talent, internal teams, promoters, venues, and external creative partners.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with promoters, venues, producers, ticketing partners, marketing teams, PRs, production suppliers, and other key stakeholders.
• Shape commercially viable live concepts with talent and talent managers that are authentic, creatively engaging, and suitable for touring audiences.
• Lead tour budgeting, forecasting, and financial management, including income, costs, promoter deals, and profitability.
• Prepare and manage tour budgets, settlement processes, P&L tracking, and financial reporting.
• Agree and manage ticket pricing, sales strategies, capacities, holds, comps, and reporting with promoters, venues, and ticketing partners.
• Oversee marketing and audience development plans for touring projects, supporting ticket sales and campaign delivery.
• Manage production requirements, including creative, technical, staging, travel, accommodation, crew, rehearsal, and show-day logistics.
• Liaise with talent, agents, managers, promoters, venues, and suppliers to ensure alignment across schedules, deliverables, updates, and deadlines.
• Attend tour dates, rehearsals, production meetings, promoter meetings, and key live shows, including evening and weekend work.
• Lead tour advancing to ensure venues, promoters, talent, production teams, and internal stakeholders have the necessary information for successful show delivery.
• Draft, negotiate, and manage touring agreements, promoter agreements, venue arrangements, talent agreements, and supplier contracts.
• Manage expectations of talent, promoters, venues, partners, and internal stakeholders clearly and professionally.
• Create and maintain accurate project timelines, tour schedules, budgets, contact sheets, deal summaries, status documents, and reporting systems.
• Monitor ticket sales and performance, identifying opportunities to improve sales, marketing activity, or commercial outcomes.
• Provide calm, thoughtful, and solutions-focused crisis management for live projects, addressing last-minute changes, talent needs, venue issues, production challenges, and audience matters.
• Support the wider LiveX team in building the touring pipeline, identifying market trends, and spotting commercial opportunities.
• Undertake high-level research across the live entertainment and touring market to identify relevant talent, formats, promoters, venues, partners, and competitive activity.
• Work closely with the wider M+C Saatchi Talent team to ensure touring activity complements talent strategy, brand development, and wider commercial objectives.
• Represent M+C Saatchi Talent professionally and confidently in meetings with promoters, venues, partners, clients, talent, and external stakeholders.
• Maintain confidentiality and discretion across all talent, commercial, and contractual matters.
• Provide regular updates to senior leadership on tour development, financial performance, risks, opportunities, and project milestones.
• Support the longer-term growth of LiveX by helping to build repeatable touring models, clear processes, and commercially scalable opportunities.

Requirements

• Demonstrable relevant experience in live touring, theatre, comedy, podcast, speaker, promoter, production, or live entertainment environments.
• Proven experience managing multi-date live projects, theatre shows, arena shows, or live entertainment projects.
• Experience working with promoters, venues, ticketing partners, production suppliers, and marketing/PR teams.
• Experience managing budgets, commercial deals, tour settlements, and project financials.
• Experience working with talent or high-profile individuals is highly desirable.
• Experience developing new live formats, touring concepts, or IP-owned projects would be advantageous.
• Experience working in a fast-paced, creative, and commercially driven environment.
• Strong knowledge of the UK and/or international theatre, arena, comedy, podcast, speaker, or live entertainment market.
• Proven experience managing live tours from concept development through to live delivery.
• Strong commercial understanding, with experience managing tour budgets, P&Ls, forecasts, ticketing strategy, settlements, and promoter deals.
• Excellent industry relationships across promoters, venues, producers, ticketing partners, marketing teams, PRs, production suppliers, and/or live entertainment stakeholders.
• Strong creative instincts, with the ability to help shape live concepts that are commercially viable, audience-facing, and talent-led.
• Confident developing new touring ideas and identifying IP-owned opportunities.
• Strong understanding of production and live show delivery, including technical, creative, logistical, and operational requirements.
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects, personalities, and deadlines simultaneously in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment.
• Excellent negotiation skills, with experience managing commercial conversations, contracts, budgets, and partner expectations.
• Highly organised and detail-focused, with strong project management skills.
• Calm and confident problem-solver who can make clear decisions under pressure.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to manage internal and external stakeholders professionally.
• Comfortable working independently and contributing positively to a collaborative team environment.
• Flexible and willing to work outside of normal office hours where required to support rehearsals, show days, tour dates, and live delivery.
• Strong understanding of marketing, PR, and audience development within the touring or live entertainment space.
• Confident using Microsoft Office and project management tools.
• Experience using CRM and ticketing/reporting systems is a plus.
• Discreet, professional, and trusted when working with confidential talent, commercial, and contractual information.

Skills

• Tour Management
• Live Entertainment
• Theatre Production
• Comedy Production
• Podcast Production
• Speaker Management
• Promoter Relations
• Venue Relations
• Budget Management
• Financial Management
• Contract Negotiation
• Project Management
• Marketing Strategy
• Audience Development
• Production Management
• Logistics Management
• Crisis Management
• Commercial Acumen
• Creative Development
• Talent Relations
• Microsoft Office Suite
• CRM Systems
• Ticketing Systems
• Reporting

Location

• UK
• International

Work Type

• Full-time
• Hybrid

Experience Level

• Mid-level
• Senior-level

Benefits

• 27 days annual holiday
• Private healthcare
• Employer contributory pension
• Life assurance
• Income protection
• Subsidised gym membership
• Learning opportunities around D&I
• Mentoring programmes
• Employee Led Networks and associated events
• Personal development support

About the Company

• M+C Saatchi Talent is one of the UK’s leading Talent Management agencies representing successful personalities from the TV, Entertainment, Sports, and Fashion industries.
• The LiveX division offers talent-led event and consultancy services, connecting globally renowned companies and brands with world-class talent, thought-leaders, and opinion-formers across the Global events industry.
• LiveX provides a breadth of services including talent for live event appearances, online and in-person corporate events, awards ceremonies, brand conferences, and festivals.
• They curate and deliver bespoke talent-led events worldwide, creating memorable experience days such as masterclasses, tournaments, and company away-days.
• LiveX also brings talent-led TV shows, books, podcasts, and comedy to life through theatre and arena tours.
• They specialize in speaker consultancy services, offering custom bookings and comprehensive event consultancy.
• M+C Saatchi Talent fosters an innovative, forward-thinking company culture with an open environment.
• They are a highly creative team that values professional relationships and friendships.
• M+C Saatchi Group has pledged its commitment to create a company that values difference, with an inclusive culture.
• M+C Saatchi Group continues to be an Equal Opportunity Employer, celebrating diversity and basing hiring and promotion decisions solely on merit.

Equal Opportunity

• M+C Saatchi Group continues to be an Equal Opportunity Employer which does not and shall not discriminate, celebrates diversity and bases all hiring and promotion decisions solely on merit, without regard for any personal characteristics.
• If you require any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment and selection process, please make us aware as part of your application.