Festival Director

Flexi-working, 4 days in office 1 from home!!!!  Great opportunity to join this live entertainment business and run your own festival!  

The Company

This innovative agency is recognised for delivering cutting edge projects that attract spectators in their thousands! A specialist area of their work is producing a portfolio of festivals that connect with audiences through their passion of either extreme sports or music through to gastronomy and contemporary art.

Offering in-house services including events, marketing, creative and production, there is little this agency doesn't cover. The teams are hardworking and work together to ensure each project they create is as energizing and as thrilling as the last.

The Role

There is now a fantastic opportunity to join the team and take the lead in the planning and delivery of one of their main festivals!  Reporting directly into the CEO, you will play an instrumental role in driving key initiatives and strategic projects. 

As the day-to-day festival lead, you'll coordinate, via the department heads across production and operations, marketing, music and content, food, bars and trade, ensuring cohesive cross functional delivery with a focus on driving the commercial result and delivering exceptional audience experiences!

As a key leader within the business, you will foster a culture of strategic and commercial thinking, encouraging growth and effective communication across teams.

Key duties will include the leadership and delivery of key initiatives and strategic projects, financial management and performance improvement and festival curation, operations and organisation, as well as:

Working with the CEO to develop long term strategic business plans

Strategic guidance of events

Lead the event management team

Management of negotiations, decisions and relationships for the events

Developing business development strategies

Idea and concept creation to ensuring events are creative, innovative and engaging

Management of key stakeholder relationships, including brand partners

Report on operational performance and suggest improvements

Drive efficiencies to improve performance

Large scale budget management including P&L management

The Candidate

The role requires a strategic thinker with a flair for creativity and innovation.   You will have extensive knowledge of producing festivals and the key components including finance, commercial rights and partnerships, marketing, creative, production, site management, administration and coordination.

The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 10 years' experience in event management, with leadership track-record in delivering major events (festivals or greenfield music sites).

Live specialises in all disciplines (and at all levels) across events, experiential and exhibitions.  If this position isn't quite what you're looking for please visit (url removed) to view all of the opportunities we are recruiting.

As a specialist events recruitment agency we help our clients build the most talented and diverse teams in the UK. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, embracing diversity across all intersecting dimensions, including ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, well-being, abilities, and neurodiversity.

We are dedicated to ensuring a supportive and accessible recruitment process. If you require any adjustments or accommodations for any reason, please do not hesitate to let us know.

Vacancy Ref: SP11875