On Premise Event Specialist
Chicago, IL - USA
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Job Summary
PLANNING
Market Trends and Insights: Keep your finger on the pulse of music industry and cultural trends in the Midwest with promoters festivals and events sharing valuable insights with regional and national leadership to guide consumer analysis and inform business strategies. Monitor competitive activity and emerging opportunities.
Market Mapping and Forecasting: Identify track and forecast all music festivals and third -party events across the Midwestern region of the US with a focus on key markets and growth trends.
Partnerships: Align and negotiate festivals and event partnerships leveraging regional target lists to drive strategic brand presence and growth.
On Site Execution: Ensure Red Bulls on-site plan supports national business priorities and meets brand guidelines.
Business Planning: Support the collaborative business planning process with regional teams.
Festival Segment & Marketing Framework: Support the Festival & Event team and cross functional departments to develop and execute festival strategies across 10 festival and 30 third party event annually ensuring consistency with Red Bulls marketing framework and business objectives.
Contract Rights & Management: Support sponsorship agreements rights management deliverable tracking and partnership fulfillment process. Ensure all contracted assets are accurately documented executed and reported.
EXECUTION
Strategy implementation: Support implementation of approved event strategies through coordination of product guidelines operational procedures staffing plans and execution standards.
Internal Processes: Coordinate logistics orders ticketing hospitality needs on-site staff and event credential approvals.
Partnership Alignment: Support relationships with festival organizers concessionaires venue operators and sponsorship teams to ensure contractual obligations and Red Bull execution standards are delivered as negotiated.
Vendor & Agency Management: External Production Teams- who deliver set-up and strike all event infrastructure and activation items. Coordinate with approved external production agencies fabrication partners creative vendors printers and logistics suppliers responsible for delivering event infrastructure activation and branded assets.
Venue Management: Support the management of live event and venue partnerships through effective relationship management executional excellence product coordination and performance reporting.
Event Reporting: Support with event recaps performance reporting photo documentation partnership evaluations and post-event analysis. Track KPIs including sales performance consumer engagement and contractual deliverables.
Cross Departmental Collaboration: Drive regional collaboration to ensure the festival marketing framework is strategically deployed across key festivals and events in the Midwestern U.S. maximizing alignment execution quality and overall impact.
Administrative & Meeting Coordination: Maintain action items lists budget tracking documents credential databases ticket allocation meeting notes project documentation to ensure alignment across stakeholders and timely completion of deliverables.
Organization: Maintain clean spreadsheets and documents tracking budget changes deliverables and on-site details.
WHERE YOU WILL SUPPORT
Festival & Event Specialists across RBNA on large projects and on-site activations as needed.
Festival & Event Operations Manager on new tool development creation and implementation.
Organization holistically by sharing best practices to maximize brand presence and consumer pull in accordance with US festival / On Premise event strategy.
BUDGET
Manage project budgets implementing strategic budget frameworks that drive efficiencies and maximize impact through economies of scale across multi-event and promoter partnerships.
Qualifications :
2 years of experience in live event production and experiential marketing with proven festival experience
Strategic planning and orchestration of multi-layered event programs at Music Festivals & Events
Experience managing budgets vendors and external partners to ensure efficient and high-quality program delivery
Strong negotiation and stakeholder management skills
Established relationships within the festival and live events industry
Experienced in managing $200k budgets and multiple projects simultaneously
Deep understanding of the Midwestern festival and event landscape
Strong communication presentation and organizational skills
Confident collaborative leader who fosters team culture and gains buy-in from key partners
Experience navigating safety concerns and de-escalation in large crowds
Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suites project management platforms and budget tracking tools.
Self-starter with strong attention to detail and the ability to work independently while driving projects forward.
Bachelors Degree preferred
Fluent in English additional languages an advantage
Additional Information :
This position is open to U.S. citizens U.S. permanent residents or individuals who are currently authorized to work in the United States on a valid visa.
The base salary range for this position is $72000 - 108000 cash incentives. Actual salary offers may vary based on work experience. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified.
Our current Benefits include:
Comprehensive Medical Dental and Vision Plans 401k Match Family Leave PTO & Paid Holiday Schedule Pet Legal and Life Insurance Tuition Reimbursement (Benefits listed may vary depending on the nature of your employment and/or work location).
Red Bull North America Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin disability veteran status age or any other classification protected by Federal state or local law.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
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