Music Events Manager: Manchester International Festival

As MIF move forwards on their journey towards becoming The Factory, they want to bring together a talented team of people, reaching out into every corner of Manchester and harnessing the talent and energy that is found across the city and beyond.

The Music Events Manager is the central point of contact for all incoming promoters and artists to the Factory. The post is responsible for managing the diary booking of all music events working closely with the Scheduling team, ensuring that the dates, venue spaces and income are maximised to achieve the budgeted income. The postholder is also responsible for the planning and end to end delivery and execution of events to agreed timelines and financial targets.

Responsibilities include:
To act as the first point of contact for all music enquiries for the Factory. To provide efficient and accurate communications with clients and promoters, to ensure their queries are answered in a timely and professional manner
To achieve agreed budget figures for the music programme and to maximise all income generating opportunities
To pro-actively manage the relationships with promoters, artists, agents, suppliers to ensure the smooth delivery of all music events. To liaise and build relationships with all other Factory teams (scheduling, operations, technical, development, audiences, skills and training, creative engagement) ensuring the dissemination of relevant information through Factory processes
To ensure the smooth running and communication of music activities in the Factory from the first point of contact to completion providing efficient operational and logistical delivery and onsite liaison as required
To ensure all production information, regulatory requirement and all health and safety documents are submitted and approved for each event. To manage the process of drafting and developing venue hire agreements, co-promotion agreements and artist contracts
To work closely with the commercial events team and scheduling to ensure maximum venue usage, diary time and income, with a view to reducing dark days and increasing flexibility of the usage of available spaces
To oversee the execution and completion of show settlements. To provide financial support including budgeting and invoice management, updating financial reports and assisting in working to the agreed departmental budget
Essential requirements include:
Strong communication, time management and project management skills with: Relevant experience encompassing booking, promotion, delivery, diary and scheduling management, event management, artist liaison and venue management
A working knowledge of Artifax
Experience of setting and managing budgets
Commitment to championing representation and inclusion at every level of the organisation with a proven ability to work with people from a wide range of backgrounds

More information and to apply please follow the link below.

For more information visit https://recruitment.mif.co.uk/recruitment/music-events-manager/