LN Venues, Food and Beverage Strategy Manager, Special Events; Remote PA, TX, or FL

Overview

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.

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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.

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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 ROLE
The Food and Beverage Strategy Manager for Special Events is responsible for overseeing the food and beverage catering programs for the special events team across a portfolio of venues from indoor clubs and theatres to outdoor amphitheaters. This role will facilitate communication and negotiating standard operating practices for venues with self-operated programs (limited and full service) in addition to partnerships with third-party concessionaires.

This will include removing obstacles to achieve operational excellence, financial performance, brand alignment, and exceptional guest experiences. The position serves as a cross-functional leader, bridging operations, culinary, finance, sales, and external partners to deliver scalable, compliant, and profitable event-driven F&B solutions.

What This Role Will Do

• Lead the planning and development of special events F&B programs across multiple venues.
• Design and standardize scalable operating models for self-operated and concessionaire-supported F&B services.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for F&B-related special projects, pilots, and program rollouts.
• Align event and catering offerings with company brand standards, guest experience goals, and venue-specific requirements.
• Develop playbooks, SOPs, and toolkits to support consistent execution across venues.
• Partner with venue operations and culinary teams to ensure seamless integration of F&B services into overall special event operations.
• Monitor on-site execution for high-profile or complex events, proactively resolving operational challenges.
• Manage relationships with third-party concessionaires and suppliers.
• Establish KPIs, reporting standards, and service level expectations for concessionaire-operated special events.
• Evaluate partner performance and recommend improvements, corrective actions, or alternative models as needed.
• Conduct detailed cost analysis, including food cost, beverage cost, labor, equipment rentals, and overhead allocations.
• Analyze P&L performance for events and catering programs, identifying opportunities to improve margins and operational efficiency.
• Support pricing strategies, menu engineering, and package development to optimize profitability while maintaining quality.
• Track and report financial results to leadership, providing insights and recommendations.
• Collaborate with culinary teams and partners on menu development, product standards, and presentation.
• Ensure menus are operationally feasible, cost-effective, and aligned with event demographics and service formats.
• Stay current on F&B trends, guest preferences, and innovative service concepts relevant to large venues and events.
• Coordinate with marketing on client facing menu design, production and updates.
• Partner with Sales, Marketing, Finance, Procurement, Culinary and Operations teams to support event success.
• Translate client and event requirements into executable F&B plans.
• Support internal training initiatives related to event F&B operations, systems, and standards.

What This Person Will Bring

• Strong knowledge of food and beverage operations, including catering, concessions, and special events.
• Experience managing both self-operated F&B programs and third-party concessionaire…