Procurement & Cost Analyst for Festivals & Live Events

Live Nation (Music) UK Limited; Manchester; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tickets to shows and festivals

Unlimited annual leave

Arcade games in basement games room

Onsite gym and fitness classes

Complimentary coffee bar with barista

Subsidised lunch options

Staff events in atrium with speakers

Job summary

Live Nation Entertainment in the UK seeks a cost and commercial finance professional to lead complex supplier reviews and cost modelling for festivals and outdoor events, driving procurement improvements and better purchasing outcomes.

You will develop benchmarking measures, analyse bids and cost drivers, and present findings to senior stakeholders, supporting cross-event cost optimisation and strategic procurement decisions.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Commercial finance

Procurement analytics

Excel modelling

Supplier bids evaluation

Benchmarking in events

Stakeholder presenting

Analytical workstreams

Live-event/ hospitality experience

Tools

Excel

Job description

Live Nation Entertainment in the UK seeks a cost and commercial finance professional to lead complex supplier reviews and cost modelling for festivals and outdoor events, driving procurement improvements and better purchasing outcomes.

You will develop benchmarking measures, analyse bids and cost drivers, and present findings to senior stakeholders, supporting cross-event cost optimisation and strategic procurement decisions.