Senior Cost & Procurement Analyst — Live Events

Live Nation; Manchester; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tickets to shows

Unlimited annual leave

Onsite gym

Coffee bar with barista

Subsidised lunch

Staff events

Job summary

Live Nation is seeking a Head of Cost & Commercial Finance for the LN Festivals Finance team in Manchester (or London). You will lead complex cost-category reviews and develop supplier models to improve purchasing outcomes across festivals and outdoor events.

You will collaborate with the Head of Cost & Commercial Finance, Central Operations, and Festival Business Partners to inform procurement decisions while maintaining data quality and robust financial evidence.

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 analytics

Procurement analytics

Advanced Excel

Financial modelling

Supplier bids evaluation

Benchmarking measures

Stakeholder presentation

Data quality supervision

Tools

Excel

Job description

Live Nation is seeking a Head of Cost & Commercial Finance for the LN Festivals Finance team in Manchester (or London). You will lead complex cost-category reviews and develop supplier models to improve purchasing outcomes across festivals and outdoor events.

You will collaborate with the Head of Cost & Commercial Finance, Central Operations, and Festival Business Partners to inform procurement decisions while maintaining data quality and robust financial evidence.