Talent Buyer - Southwest

The role

The Talent Buyer builds relationships, identifies talent, and confirms profitable shows. This person creates budgets, maps venue scaling, builds artist offers, and manages show settlements.

What you will do

• Buy profitable talent by reaching out to agents and responding to inbound requests
• Negotiate offer details with music agents
• Network and build relationships with agents, artist management, venue managers and other potential clients
• Oversee the marketing and ticketing of events
• Create show or event budgets and monitor spending
• Travel to cover road shows, events, festivals and seek new clients, projects and partners
• Handle the settlement of shows when necessary
• Work with managers on potential festival projects
• Identify potential third party venue and festival sites
• Assist on festival and concert projects as assigned

Required qualifications

• BA/BS Degree (4-year) In Marketing, Public Relations, or a related area
• 4-6 years Of related work experience
• Previous experience in the music industry with demonstrated ability to assess current music trends
• Previous experience supervisor, leading, and/or mentoring team
• Knowledge of general accounting principles
• General understanding of ticketing systems
• Computer savvy and skilled in MS Office (Outlook, Word and Excel)
• Knowledge of social media platforms
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Outgoing personality with the ability to build and cultivate relationships
• Exceptional negotiation skills with an ability to analyze complex documents
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment

Benefits

• medical, dental and vision insurance
• paid holidays
• vacation and sick time
• company paid basic life insurance
• voluntary life insurance
• parental leave
• 401k Plan (with a current employer match of 3%)
• flexible spending and health savings account options
• wellness offerings

Before you apply

• Employer does not offer work visa sponsorship for this position

About the company

AEG hosts more than 160 million guests, promotes more than 10,000 shows and presents more than 22,000 events around the world. The company leverages 300+ venues, leading sports franchises, marquee music brands, integrated entertainment districts, premier ticketing platform and global sponsorship activations.