Booking Manager
Houston Rockets
Houston, TXThis is a Full Time Job
Clutch City Sports & Entertainment is seeking a Booking Manager! We're looking for an innovative individual to explore new opportunities and expand our impressive lineup. With Houston's diverse culture and status as a premier entertainment hub, you'll play a key role in attracting top concerts and tours.
RESPONSIBILITIES include but are not limited to:
• Maintain Toyota Center's current excellent business relationships with promoters, agents, and their associated acts and artist management.
• Primary liaison overseeing the arena master calendar. Maintain day-to-day calendar activity including placing/removing holds, distributing avails, tracking reports, etc.
• Develop new business relationships with promoters, producers, agents, artist management, and other talent purveyors to complement Toyota Center's existing relationships and expand current business
• Maintain and build upon Toyota Center's strong live-entertainment book of business at Toyota Center utilizing industry best practices and an innovative marketing approach
• Explore new live-event alternatives and drive quality, diversity and volume of entertainment and event activity at Toyota Center
• Assist with the booking, scheduling and marketing of events at Toyota Center, including concerts, family shows, sporting events, conventions, consumer/trade shows, and other related events
• Correspond with the Greater Houston Convention Visitor Bureau on potential events and conferences to include Toyota Center
• Maintain constant research and knowledge of current activities in the live-entertainment industry, including but not limited to concerts, family shows and sporting events
• Assist in creating a strategic booking strategy with the objective of generating new business and securing repeat business clients
• Identify strategic relationships in the live-entertainment industry
• Communicate regularly with appropriate internal staff regarding current and upcoming events and all necessary details for a successful event.
• Demonstrate our One Team philosophy of Passion, Accountability, Customer Focus, and Teamwork.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
• 2 years' experience in concert event management (arena, stadium or theatre)
• Must have the ability and willingness to work long hours, evenings, weekends, and holidays
• BS/BA in a related field required.
PHYSICAL & MENTAL REQUIREMENTS:
• The employee is regularly required to stand, sit, walk, use handle or feel, reach, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl, communicate with others.
• The vision requirement includes the ability to review written and electronic materials in both digital and physical format.
• The employee must be able to transfer and move items for departmental needs.
• The employee must be able to adjust to changing work hours and locations as needed in light of the strong focus on external communications and relationships.
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender identity, marital or veteran status, or any other protected class.