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Head of Marketing - Live Music Events / Festivals

Handle Recruitment
Posted 14 hours ago, valid for 8 days
Location

London, Greater London EC1R 0WX

Contract type

Full Time

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  • An innovative business in the live music and entertainment space is seeking a Head of Marketing to set the long-term vision and drive marketing execution for its festivals.
  • The role requires detailed marketing leadership experience in live entertainment or global brands, ideally with festival marketing experience, along with a minimum of 7 years in a similar position.
  • Key responsibilities include defining the marketing vision, executing multi-channel campaigns, identifying growth opportunities, managing the global festival marketing budget, and mentoring a high-performing team.
  • The position offers a competitive salary of $120,000 to $150,000 per year, depending on experience.
  • Candidates should have a deep understanding of youth culture and music trends, with a commitment to diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

An incredible opportunity to work for an innovative and evolving business that is immersed in culture, lifestyle, live experience and is on path to become a real game changer in the live music and entertainment space.

As Head of Marketing, you will be responsible for setting the long-term vision, driving innovative marketing execution and building a globally resonant presence for the businesses festivals.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Defining and executing the long-term marketing vision across the business's festival portfolio
  • Translating brand strategy into data-driven, culturally rich multi-channel marketing campaigns
  • Identify new revenue and audience growth opportunities through digital innovation, brand partnerships, and platform integrations
  • Evolving the business marketing stack to include predictive analytics and AI-driven insights
  • Owning the global festival marketing budget; forecast, manage, and optimise for ROI
  • Defining and tracking KPIs across ticket sales, campaign effectiveness, brand equity, and sponsor impact
  • Building and mentoring a high-performing team across creative, digital, media, and CRM

The ideal candidate will have:

  • Detailed marketing leadership experience in live entertainment, music, media, or global brand - Ideally with festival marketing experience
  • Demonstrated success leading large-scale, multi-market campaigns and teams
  • Experience being hands-on managing a junior team, spotting upskilling and training opportunities, providing mentorship and coaching to ensure success and growth for direct reports
  • Deep fluency in youth culture, music trends, and the global Black diaspora
  • Expertise in digital performance marketing, brand storytelling, and CRM/loyalty strategy

Handle actively welcomes applicants from under-represented backgrounds - we pride ourselves on attracting the best talent for every opportunity through a commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.

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In order to submit this application, a Reed account will be created for you. As such, in addition to applying for this job, you will be signed up to all Reed’s services as part of the process. By submitting this application, you agree to Reed’s Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that your personal data will be transferred to Reed and processed by them in accordance with their Privacy Policy.