Tour Coordinator

What you'll do

• Collaborate with Brand Managers to develop compelling tour merchandise lines that maximize sales and profits while maintaining creative integrity, cohesive branding, and product quality.
• Prepare tour projections for both clients and Artist Relations for financial planning and new artist signings.
• Hire and manage day-to-day operations of road managers, staff, and vendors, such as trucking, trailers, 3rd party vend teams etc.
• Liaise with artist managers to help communicate the viability of certain products, determine storage space, and trouble-shoot issues on the road as they arise.
• Forecast on-site sales leveraging ticket counts and historical data to accurately replenish inventory levels throughout the tour cycle.
• Work closely with the Tour Logistics Coordinator to traffic all product shipments to venues and warehousing facilities.
• Work with Manhead’s accounting team to ensure accurate, timely, and complete venue collections and client settlements.
• Sporadically travel to concerts, festivals, pop-up shops and award shows to ensure visual merchandising, logistics and quality standards are upheld.
• Help identify and manage international touring partners.
• Work closely with Manhead’s tour warehouse manager to reconcile ending inventory and liquidate excess stock through all sales channels.

Qualification

• 3+ years of experience working in tour and event merchandising for independent and major label recording artists.
• Strong project management skills with the ability to prioritize tasks and meet ambitious deadlines.
• Proficient in inventory and project management, tools such as Atvenu, ShipHero, Monday, Excel, QuickBase, and Tallie a plus

• Broad knowledge of all music merchandising verticals, including E-commerce, Retail/Licensing, and VIP Ticketing.
• Existing relationships with vendors, suppliers and 3rd party logistics companies preferred but not required.
• Must have a strong pulse on music-fashion trends and a deep understanding of fan demographics across rock, country, hip-hop and Pop music genres.
• Bachelor’s degree in business management, accounting or marketing is preferred but not required.