LN Media & Sponsorship Director, Regional Sales

LN Media & Sponsorship || Director, Regional Sales### LN Media & Sponsorship || Director, Regional Sales Apply:
San Francisco, CA, USA:
Full time:
Posted Today:
JR-93890

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 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   
** WHO ARE YOU?
** Passionate and driven, with an entrepreneurial spirit. Resourceful, innovative, forward-thinking, and collaborative. At Live Nation Entertainment, our people embrace these qualities, so if this sounds like you, please read on!  
** THE JOB
** Live Nation Entertainment’s Media & Sponsorship Division is seeking a Regional Director, Sales. This successful sponsorship sales professional will be responsible for creating and selling branded, high-impact music marketing programs across our San Francisco and Pacific Northwest market properties.  Live Nation Media & Sponsorship architects, sells and manages the company’s national corporate sponsorship programs with the world’s most recognizable brands.

It is an exciting, fast-paced team that collaborates with all facets of Live Nation’s business including venues, festivals, ticketing, artists, content, media (digital, social, mobile), promotions, and concert production. To learn more about our division, check out:

** WHAT THIS ROLE WILL DO
*** Create, package and sell solution-based music marketing programs for Live Nation Entertainment. Including amphitheater, club and theater venues throughout the San Francisco and Pacific Northwest market areas, digital media and marketing promotions
* Meet or exceed revenue and key account goals
* Focus on developing and maintaining strong relationships with important decision makers at client marketing companies and their respective advertising agencies in a variety of business categories
* Craft sales presentations that creatively and distinctly differentiate and communicate unique assets addressing the goals of targeted prospects
* Educate/position Live Nation assets and marketing capabilities to the sponsor/advertiser marketplace; demonstrate the branding values of live music tie-ins to create unique marketing value with Live Nation's assets
* Structure, price, successfully negotiate and close deals that will keep you performing to expectations in tracking to your budget
* Oversee sponsor contracts, invoicing, and accounts receivable or develop processes to ensure execution and collections  
** WHAT THIS PERSON WILL BRING
*** Bachelor’s degree required
* Minimum of 5 years of sponsorship/solution-based marketing programs
* A reputation as a  go-getter  and  Rainmaker”
* Solid relationships with senior level marketing executives at relevant brands/agencies located in or doing business in the market(s)
* Demonstrated ability to develop and nurture relationships and work effectively at all levels of the decision process
* Strong understanding of media/advertising buys to communicate value of sponsorship vs. pure media as a marketing solution
* Strong interpersonal and leadership abilities with excellent oral and written communication skills  Applicants for…