Festival Partnerships Manager

Superstruct UK; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent live entertainment company is seeking a Partnership Manager to facilitate communication between internal teams and festival stakeholders. This role involves managing delivery of brand partnerships, ensuring operational needs during festivals, and fostering relationships with festival teams. The successful candidate will have strong project management skills and a deep understanding of partnership dynamics within live events. The position is based in Holborn, London, with a hybrid working pattern.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing partnerships or client relationships in events.
• Strong project management skills for operational execution.
• Understanding of brand partnerships in live events.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the central liaison between internal teams and Festivals.
• Manage delivery of Brand Partnerships across multiple Festivals.
• Lead operational delivery during festivals and onsite events.

Skills

Cross-departmental collaboration

Project management

Relationship building

Budget management

Event activation concepts

Job description

Overview

Superstruct UK is a leading live entertainment platform that owns and operates a collective of 12 major experience-first UK festivals and events, attracting a total audience of over 1.7 million. Superstruct UK's multi-award-winning portfolio includes leading brands all over the country including Boardmasters, Lost Village, Mighty Hoopla, Cross The Tracks, Victorious, Kendal Calling, Tramlines, Truck, Y Not, Field Day, Christmas at Bute Park, Northern Lights Newcastle and Leeds. Through its dedicated Brand Partnerships team of cultural and experiential marketing experts, it allows partner brands to strategize, plan, and execute meaningful campaigns at scale that connect with hard to-reach audiences in real life and across digital channels.

Superstruct UK is part of Superstruct Entertainment, a leading global live entertainment platform which owns and operates over 80 major festivals in Europe and Australia as well as service and capability companies specialising in production, staging, travel and accommodation as well as brand partnerships and activations.

Superstruct Entertainment’s network includes leading operators and festivals such as elrow, Wacken Open Air, Mysteryland, sonar, Flow, Defqon.1, Parookaville, Zwarte Cross, Arenal Sound, Øya, O Son do Camiño, Tinderbox and many more.

Job Description

• Act as a central liaison between internal teams and each Festival’s core team, ensuring seamless cross departmental collaboration and maintaining best-in-class client service standards. Serve as the in-team expert for your cluster of Festivals and own year-round relationships with Festival teams.
• Manage a roster of Festivals and lead the effective delivery of Brand Partnerships from planning through execution in close collaboration with the Client Services team. Oversee partnership fulfilment merging operational execution with broader partnership objectives, KPIs and budgets.
• Build and nurture strong relationships with Festival stakeholders, becoming their go to contact for partnership delivery needs. Understand each Festival’s strategy and how Brand Partnerships can support and strengthen it.
• Act as the operational lead on delivery of allocated shows, from advance planning through to on-site execution. Project manage the fulfilment of all operational needs incl. all onsite rights fulfilment, site planning, site services, activation review & collation of H&S docs.
• Lead biweekly partnership meetings with Festivals, providing clear updates on status of partnerships and gaining insights on Festival planning development to report back, building dynamic agendas dependent on cycle needs.
• Ensure information flows smoothly between Account Management, Business Development and Festival teams across the full project lifecycle.
• Manage the onboarding, briefing and overall management of the fulfilment support on your specific shows.
• Identify opportunities to grow commercial value through recharges, production margins and potential new revenue streams.
• Collaborate with Festivals and the Special Projects Lead to identify sellable assets and new activation concepts, covering all areas of the event and customer lifecycle. Develop production concepts and budgets for Business Development and Client Services to take to market.
• Support the Special Projects Lead on ad-hoc projects across all stages of delivery.
• Represent Partner interests and strategy during internal discussions and festival decision-making.
• Maintain recharge and production budgets for accurate reporting of infrastructure requirements and commercial status.
• Collate master schedules, activation overviews and supporting documentation for Festival team review.
• On-site scope: Oversee the smooth delivery of all partnerships and act as a key point of contact for Festival teams and Partners during live event periods, working with the support of freelance team members.

Location: Superstruct UK office, Holborn, London

Working pattern: 4 days per week in the office, 1 day working from home

On-site work: Evenings and weekends during peak season as required

Full UK driving licence preferred