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About the Role

Live Nation UK is seeking an experienced communications professional to manage PR campaigns for live events across the UK, including gigs, festivals, arena, and stadium tours. This role involves managing a team, overseeing PR strategies, campaigns, budgets, and agencies.

Responsibilities

Manage PR campaigns across the Live Nation UK portfolio, from intimate gigs to high-profile arena and stadium tours, outdoor shows and festivals, ensuring campaigns are aligned with wider strategic goals.
Line manage two communications executives in the team, overseeing campaigns, strategy, and budgets.
Oversee press announcements, interviews, and promotional opportunities including launch events and media trips, ensuring clear messaging and campaign focus.
Handle media accreditation and press at events, ensuring smooth execution and top-tier media experiences.
Lead on media partnerships on certain festivals and events, negotiating and executing contracts with agencies and media partners, overseeing media partner activity on site.
Recruit and manage PR agencies on certain festivals and events, overseeing strategy, media targeting, and feature ideas, in line with the wider business objectives around each event.
Maintain and develop a network of influential media contacts.
Collaborate with the Creator Partnerships Manager to deliver creator and influencer campaigns for shows as needed.
Monitor and analyse media coverage, providing insights and reports to internal teams.
Problem-solve and manage potential crisis communications with discretion and efficiency.
Work closely with internal teams, including promoters, marketing, partnerships, and artist relations, to align on key initiatives.
Stay ahead of media trends, identifying new opportunities for publicity and brand growth.
Travel as required for events, press engagements, and meetings.
Work flexible hours, including evenings and weekends, as needed for shows.

Requirements

Substantial experience in music, live events, or entertainment publicity.
Adept at handling talent, from emerging artists to global superstars, with confidence and professionalism.
Deep UK media network across key verticals with proven placement and storytelling success.
Experience managing or supervising people.
Highly organised with a meticulous eye for detail and the ability to manage a number of projects at one time.
Excellent writing and communication skills.
Experience collaborating cross-functionally with marketing, ticketing, artists teams and corporate stakeholders.
Ability to stay calm under pressure and respond to changing priorities in a fast-paced, high-profile environment.
A self-starter with the right attitude – proactive, adaptable, and solution-oriented.
Ability to work collaboratively with a wide range of teams, from artists and creatives to production, ticketing, finance, marketing and many others.
A strategic thinker who can also roll up their sleeves and execute plans efficiently.
Commercially minded with an ability to connect media activity directly to sales and audience growth.
Culturally connected and passionate about live music and entertainment.

Skills

Publicity
Campaign Management
Team Management
Budget Management
Agency Management
Media Relations
Talent Handling
Media Networking
Project Management
Writing
Communication
Cross-functional Collaboration
Crisis Communications
Media Trend Analysis
Influencer Marketing

Location

Farringdon, London

Work Type

Permanent
Full time
Additional hours around festival/touring season

Experience Level

Experienced communications professional
Experience managing or supervising people

Benefits

Tickets to shows and festivals
Unlimited annual leave
Beautiful office environment
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

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.