LN Concerts, Senior Analyst

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, visit www.livenationentertainment.com.

Live Nation’s Concerts Division is where tours are born, artists come to life, and fans get to experience the rush of live music. From our dozens of owned/operated Amphitheaters to our Global Touring team, from Ticketing and Venue Operations to Marketing and Sales... we foster a fun and upbeat work culture with no shortage of opportunities. With perks ranging from free concert tickets to dog-friendly offices, to progressive benefits like student loan reimbursement and adoption/fertility support... it’s no wonder we are certified as a Great Place to Work organization and one of People Magazine’s “50 Companies that Care”. We want everyone to feel like they belong and can thrive in our community, so we strive to help you achieve your career and personal goals. Live music is our passion and where we find our common ground. There has never been a better time to join Live Nation.

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 JOB:

The Senior Analyst of the Strategy & Analytics team will sit at the intersection of data and disruption. This role builds reports and analyses that make an impact in supporting Touring and Concerts leadership. Critical data models are maintained weekly that track the touring pipeline and enable our team to make strategic decisions that impact the business. It is common to work on projects both individually and collaboratively within a team. This role is fluent in reporting, accustomed to a growing database, and with a proven ability to leverage data to solve problems.

Large spreadsheets and warehouses of data are more than just numbers on a screen to the Senior Analyst of the Strategy & Analytics team. Each data point has a unique story and a single number represents an artist, a show, a venue, or an individual’s concert experience. The ideal candidate possesses an insatiable curiosity to learn about each data point, speak to its unique story, and transform it into meaningful insights.

WHAT THIS ROLE WILL DO: 

• Maintain and evolve the data model that tracks the concert pipeline on a weekly basis. This includes leveraging BI tools for reporting and analysis, collaborating with Promoters to clarify certain data points, and frequently recommending and executing solutions to automate processes.
• Query, transform, and integrate data from multiple sources and structures and carry out data cleansing and normalization tasks to ensure data integrity.
• Support US Concerts team with high-impact projects, reports, and analyses within a fast-paced environment
• Work with various departments across Live Nation to collaborate and uncover shared data and insights opportunities.
• Lead analytical thought, analysis, and outputs for the overall Concerts division strategy.
• Mine and analyze data from company databases to drive optimization and improvement of tour routing recommendations, concert performance, and business strategies.
• Build financial and statistical models, reports, and analyses to provide data-driven insights and recommendations to support business leaders in decision-making.
• Take ownership of projects from planning through execution and delivery, collaborating with partners to ensure deliverables align with business needs.
• Lead ad-hoc analyses to answer critical and time-sensitive business questions.
• Create presentations, visualizations, and dashboards
• Discern and articulate the distinction between educational concepts and theory, and their practical application and utilization in real-world scenarios.
• Our job descriptions evolve with our business need and priorities.  In addition to the description above, your role may include additional projects and team support as needed.

WHAT THIS PERSON WILL BRING:

• Bachelor’s degree with a focus in music industry, business, statistics, accounting, economics, finance, analytics, or related field.
• 3+ years of experience in a role that interfaces with leadership preferred. Relevant analytical experience such as corporate business analysis is a plus. 
• 3+ years of experience using BI, analytical, and visualization tools (SQL, SAP Business Objects, Tableau, etc.)
• Effective written and verbal communication skills - ability to distill complex data into actionable insights to a less technical audience, give work status updates, and advocate for (or against) a particular approach of design.
• Loves to solve puzzles and has the desire to understand every aspect of the business, and independently identify and pursue improvement opportunities.
• Advanced proficiency in MS Excel and PowerPoint.
• Exceptional attention to detail and the ability to produce accurate, high-quality work
• Ability to participate in a collaborative team environment and willing to work when necessary to help get overall team goals accomplished.
• Ability to handle multiple priorities and effectively meet critical time-sensitive deadlines.
• Ability to work flexible hours in support of the business.
• Entertainment industry experience is a plus.

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 and baby bonuses, 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.

**Please note that the compensation information provided is a good faith estimate for this position only and is provided pursuant to the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act and Equal Pay Transparency Rules. It is estimated based on what a successful Colorado applicant might be paid. It assumes that the successful candidate will be in Colorado or perform the position from Colorado. Similar positions located outside of Colorado will not necessarily receive the same compensation. Live Nation takes into consideration a candidate’s education, training, and experience, as well as the position’s work location, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value, including seniority and merit systems, and internal pay alignment when determining the salary level for potential new employees. In compliance with the CO EPEWA, a potential new employee’s salary history will not be used in compensation decisions.

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The expected compensation for this position is:

$88,000.00 USD - $110,000.00 USD

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