Touring Assistant - Global Touring - AEG Presents HQ

For more than 20 years, AEG has played a pivotal role in transforming sports and live entertainment. Annually, we host more than 160 million guests, promote more than 10,000 shows and present more than 22,000 events around the world. We are committed to innovation, artistry, and community, and leverage the power of our 300+ venues, leading sports franchises, marquee music brands, integrated entertainment districts, premier ticketing platform and global sponsorship activations, to create memorable moments that give the world reason to cheer. 

Our business is interwoven with the human mind and heart, and we strive to build a diverse and inclusive company that reflects the artists, athletes, and fans that we host; reach beyond traditional boundaries to support the communities in which we operate; and minimize our impact on the environment by adopting sustainable practices throughout our business operations. 

If you want to be challenged to up your game and make a difference, then join us in giving the world reason to cheer!

Position Summary:

The Tour Assistant will be responsible for supporting the touring department and it's executives by appropriately routing phone calls, logging messages, managing correspondence, and various administrative duties associated with coordinating meetings, expense reports, and filing. Additionally, the Tour Assistant will be responsible for obtaining show avails and venue holds, developing a venue and artist hold log, tour contact sheets, and scaling maps at various venues for each tour. 

Essential Functions:

• Administrative duties include: answer phones, create phone logs, assist department executives with message routing, drafting tour memos and other miscellaneous correspondence, maintain contact lists, organize routine tour meetings, develop 
  meeting agendas, and meeting correspondence. 
• Manage office systems in the touring department including creating filing systems for tour memos and contracts, ordering office supplies as needed, maintaining copy and fax systems, completing AMEX reports for touring personnel, and completing weekly payroll for touring staff
• Tour related responsibilities include: collecting avails/holds for tour dates and venues, develop an avail and hold log for all pending tours, placing holds directly with venue includes negotiation as needed, develop tour contact sheets for distribution, maintain database of venue information, update venue rent grids.
• Create scaling maps for venues: create colored venue specific scaling maps for each tour.
• Responsible for internal booking database maintenance, assist with building tours, upload settlements and route appropriate approvals.
• Research & Reporting: research historical tour data, pull Soundscan/BDS reports as needed, Trade Reporting: report box office information to Pollstar, Billboard, and other public databases for all tours. 

Required Qualifications:

• A minimum education level of: High School Diploma or its equivalency (Bachelor of Arts/Sciences Degree Preferred)
• 0-2 years of related work experience
• Proficient in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) & Adobe Acrobat
• Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills
• Detail orientated individual with commitment to advancing in the music industry
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with an ability to take direction and work as a team towards the execution of a large scale touring event
• Knowledge of accounting principles and previous experience in building financial models
• Able to work a flexible schedule which may include nights, weekends and holidays as tour permits
• Strong analytical and organizational skills
• Knowledgeable about the music industry 
  
• Positive attitude with an ability to take initiative

Pay Scale: $17.00-$25.00

AEG reserves the right to change or modify the employee’s job description whether orally or in writing, at any time during the employment relationship. AEG may require an employee to perform duties outside their normal description.