Job Summary:
Who are we?
Live Nation Entertainment is the world's leading live entertainment and eCommerce company, comprised of four market leaders: Ticketmaster.com , Live Nation Concerts, Artist Nation and Live Nation Network. Ticketmaster.com is the global event ticketing leader and one of the world's top five eCommerce sites, with over 27 million monthly unique visitors. Live Nation Concerts produces over 22,000 shows annually for more than 2,300 artists globally. Artist Nation is the world's top artist management company, representing over 250 artists. These businesses power Live Nation Network, the leading provider of entertainment marketing solutions, enabling over 800 advertisers to tap into the 200 million consumers Live Nation delivers annually through its live event and digital platforms. For additional information, visit www.livenation.com/investors .
Role:
As a Junior Project Manager, you will assist in leading various projects that come into Live Nation's PMO (Program Management Office). Our Project Managers work on a variety of projects from functional to technical, and projects vary in size and scope. Specific tasks on each project will include developing project plans and schedules, managing tasks and teams on the project's critical path, communicating with clients, identifying and resolving issues, mitigating risks, and managing the overall success of the project.
Responsibilities:
Responsible for assisting in the management of multiple complex projects concurrently
Manage and prioritize business requirements from appropriate stakeholders, translate the requirements into scope and implementations plans, identify issues, risks, roles and responsibilities
Assist Senior Program Manager in working with business and technology teams to define, develop, test and implement new software applications, improve existing systems, provide production support, perform system upgrades, and manage cloud migrations
Report on progress and communicate important information to all business partners and stakeholders
Help manage and lead internal and external resources, creatively solving problems and coordinating issue resolution. Develop and maintain network of resources
Assure quality and integrity of projects, based on comprehensive testing of solution and attention to detail
Maintain excellent communication with all levels of management, be responsive to customers, and provide appropriate mentoring, training and cross-training to other team members
Develop system to track metrics and measure performance. Measure and monitor progress against goals
Help define process improvements and feedback for large, multi-part projects that need creative project management strategies required for timely execution.
Responsible for scope control with stakeholders, task execution with the team, and relevant upward communication to managers
Junior and Senior Project manager will work together on gathering and documenting all project results and reporting or presenting them to appropriate parties.
Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in IT, Finance, Accounting or Business Administration, or equivalent work experience
1-3 years' experience managing projects in an IT environment
PMP, ACP preferred, or CAPM and equivalent work experience
Demonstrated functional project management proficiency
Experience with managing IT and operational projects
Demonstrated proficiency authoring project plans, gathering business requirements, meeting deadlines, tracking issues and risks, and managing successful projects
An understanding of activities and deliverables that pertain to each phase of the SDLC
General understanding of financial systems, web technologies, application development, quality assurance, and user experience design
Applicant should be a functional and operational technology generalist with a strong understanding of various platforms
Financial Systems experience, (e.g. Oracle, Concur, Workday, SAP Business One) and Cloud Systems experience (AWS, tagging, patching) a plus
Concert promotion and ticketing industry experience a plus
Exposure to Agile methodologies a plus
Intellectual:
Innate capability to create order out of chaos
Proven problem-solving skills
Ability to think out of the box and generate creative solutions
Interpersonal:
Flexibility that allows effective teamwork with people at all levels of the organization
Proven ability to communicate effectively with both business and IT people
Ability to negotiate for competing resources and to generate consensus among multiple priorities
Motivation:
Desire to work in fast-paced, multi-tasking, fluid environment with ever-changing priorities
Interest in staying involved with fast-changing Internet technologies and tools
Demonstrated desire to do whatever it takes to get things done
Technical:
Experience with Financial Systems is preferred (e.g. Oracle, Concur, Workday, SAP Business One)
Experience with web technologies is preferred
Experience with Cloud technologies is preferred
Experience with network operations and administration is a plus
Experience with relational databases and network operating systems is a plus
