Job Summary:
Company: Live Nation
Department: LN Festivals Finance
Location: Manchester or Farringdon, London (UK)
Reports to: Head of Cost & Commercial Finance
Working Hours: Full-time
Job Type: Permanent
Role Description
Lead complex cost-category reviews and commercial analysis across the festivals and wider outdoor events portfolio. Develop supplier models, meaningful benchmarks and recommendations that enable Operations to improve purchasing outcomes.
What it’s like to work in the Team
You will work with the Head of Cost & Commercial Finance, Central Operations, the Festival Business Partners and a Cost & Procurement Assistant. Your analysis will inform procurement decisions, not replace operational contracting ownership.
What we can offer you
Live Nation offers impressive employee benefits including tickets to shows and festivals and unlimited annual leave. The Farmiloe Building in Farringdon, London is a beautiful office to work in. Staff can enjoy use of arcade games in the basement games room, onsite gym equipment plus fitness and meditation classes. In addition to this, the office has a fully stocked complimentary coffee bar with barista to serve you your favourite coffee as you walk into the office and offers heavily subsidised lunch options. We hold regular staff events in our atrium stage space including hosting speakers and open mic nights to showcase Live Nation employee talent.
Who you are
Competencies / Skills / Knowledge / Experience
Strong commercial finance or procurement analytics experience.
Advanced Excel and financial modelling skills.
Experience evaluating supplier bids, rates, scope and commercial terms.
Ability to design fair benchmarking measures across different events.
Strong understanding of cost drivers, volume assumptions and savings baselines.
Experience presenting commercial findings to senior stakeholders.
Ability to lead analytical workstreams and review data quality.
Relevant live-event, hospitality or operational sector experience advantageous.
Behaviours
The following attributes determine how the role will be carried out and are required to be a success
Analytical, questioning and evidence-led.
Constructive in challenging supplier economics.
Clear and commercially focused in recommendations.
Collaborative with Operations and BPs.
Accountable for the quality and validation of findings.
What the role includes
Lead complex commercial reviews of major supplier categories, including detailed cost modelling, pricing comparisons and analysis of service specifications.
Develop and maintain comparable cross-event cost benchmarks using meaningful operational drivers such as attendees, site size, days and service requirements.
Support Central Operations with financial assessment of tenders, contract proposals, supplier alternatives and volume or scope changes.
Identify and quantify potential recurring and one-off cost improvements, clearly distinguishing genuine savings from changes in activity levels.
Maintain financial evidence for the savings register, tracking agreed baselines, delivery owners, forecast benefits and realised results.
Work with Festival Business Partners and Operational teams to explain cost differences and support adoption of viable procurement and operating improvements.
Challenge data completeness and coding to ensure robust supplier and category analysis.
Prepare executive-quality recommendations, clearly setting out costs, risks, implementation dependencies and commercial trade-offs.
Support Pink Moon and other portfolio specific commercial analysis as required
Equal Opportunities
We are passionate and committed to our people and go beyond the rhetoric of diversity and inclusion. You will be working in an inclusive environment and be encouraged to bring your whole self to work. We will do all that we can to help you successfully balance your work and homelife. As a growing business we will encourage you to develop your professional and personal aspirations, enjoy new…