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Entertainment Booking Manager Job
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| Employer Name: |
SpiderID: 2415486 |
| Location: Orlando, Florida |
Date Posted: 8/3/2008 |
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Category: Business/Management |
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Job Description:
The Booking Manager is in charge of creating and executing booking strategies that maximize profits while maintaining outstanding client relations. The Booking Manager actively promotes and seeks out performance opportunities. This person will be coordinating gigs from start to finish combining sales, marketing and communications.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
-Interface with other booking agents, Convention and Visitors Bureaus, company departments, artists and more.
-Coordinate and negotiate entertainment bookings for conventions, private events, weddings, tours and more.
-Write and layout proposals
-Respond to leads with a sense of urgency and appropriate, exciting proposals
-Seek out entertainment listing companies, partnerships that would bring us leads, agents, and more.
-Know our company's products and potential inside and out and be able to talk about them confidently
-Think creatively on the spot to meet the needs of clients
-Provide/coordinate/create/alter booking materials – including lists of products, descriptions, prices, photos, print materials, websites and more.
-Coordinate and insure timely execution of contracts and payments
-Make site visits prior at all performances to insure performer satisfaction and client satisfaction
-Coordinate and communicate schedules
-Communicate all booking details – including site/venue information, client background, special circumstances, etc.
-Provide necessary information to enable appropriate departments to provide successful performances
-Attend all performances as the client's main point of contact and to ensure a flawless process and performance
-Provide post performance feedback about all aspects of the performance and process
-Shows gratitude to clients with "Thank You" cards or other creative appropriate means
-Incorporates company branding and focuses into everything
Job Requirements:
-Experience with booking and producing/coordinating entertainment
-Sales and marketing experience is a plus
-Have an energy that people enjoy at first impression
-Organized and strives to find ways to streamline and make things more efficient
-Ability to "close" a deal
-Attend to details . . . Ensure that work is accurate, thorough and to the highest standards.
-Take responsibility . . . Demonstrate personal ownership to tasks and follow through to get the required results.
-Presents oneself professionally while working with clients
-Ability to reconfigure finances to coordinate and secure a deal
-Writing skills
-Artist management skills
-Problem solving ability
-Foster Teamwork . . . Work well in a team environment and motivate teams to sustain exceptional levels of performance
-Knowledge of artistic performance and technical equipment
-Dreamweaver/html, Photoshop and booking/project management software experience is a plus.
-Position may require some use of your own car/gas for travel
-POSSESSES A PASSION FOR THIS POSITION, THE COMPANY AND THE INDUSTRY
Job Criteria:
Start Date: August or September
Position Type: Part-Time Permanent
Years of Experience Required: 3
Education Required:
Overnight Travel:
Vacation Time:
Job Benefits:
Flex Time, Casual Dress, Regular Employee Outings
Company Profile:
Performing Arts and Visual Arts are combined to create compelling sensory-stimulated shows, events, and atmosphere that excite and move audiences. DRIP takes conventions, trade shows, receptions, and private events to the next level while giving your audience a completely memorable experience.
Contact Information:
| Contact Name: Jessica Mariko |
Company Type: Employer |
| Company: DRIP |
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| City: Orlando |
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| State: Florida |
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Web Site: http://www.ILoveDRIP.com
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