Venues Booker, Pollen
Vacations and travel experiences
Job no longer available
Vacations and travel experiences
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Pollen is a technology company on a mission to build, curate, and deliver the best experiences all over the world leveraging a data-driven, customer-led mindset, and a network of global partners.
Role
Who you are
- This is an amazing opportunity for a detail-oriented candidate who is interested in live events
- Be prepared for exposure to operations, negotiations, company strategy and growth drivers
- Pollen is seeking an experienced Venue Booker to be responsible for venue contracts at live performance venues, nightclubs, dayclubs, hotel buy-outs, festival locations, and more for Pollen experiences throughout North America
What the job involves
- An experienced Venue Booker to be responsible for venue contracts at live performance venues, nightclubs, dayclubs, hotel buy-outs, festival locations, and more for Pollen experiences throughout North America
- Create memorable experiences in entertainment including music, sports, and lifestyle to the most exciting destinations in the world
- Oversee all aspects of venue procurement - Successfully identify, source, negotiate, and book venue deals
- Build and maintain venue relationships
- Become an expert in a designated market to assist in the curation and execution of unique experiences
- Unlock new destinations with the Commercial department
- Creatively drive Venue strategy in a fast paced, demanding environment
- Present a roadmap of the Venue work to a wider internal group:
- Provide weekly distribution of key information to hundreds of Pollen employees
- Compose and prepare confidential contracts, correspondence, reports, and other documents, including redlining of all such documents
- Help identify operational inefficiencies and come up with solutions
- Maintain strong cross functional relationships with internal teams to ensure consistency in work across the Pollen organization including: Inventory management, Product Development on the curation of our travel experiences, Experience Operations on providing timely venue information
- Actively participate in team meetings while reporting progress and findings
- Support the Venue Leads and Venue Director on venue qualification and initial reach outs
- Be/become proficient in Salesforce workflow processes, and communicate with internal teams on servicing the needs of your inventory partners
Our take
Most would argue that the best advocates for a product are existing customers. Sometimes these customers can be incentivised to refer/sell the products they love.
Pollen (rebranded from the name Verve) has done just that, creating a platform to allow brands to provide various rewards for customers who help promote events. It is providing the infrastructure to make word-of-mouth marketing more scalable.
Pollen has been known best for providing access to music concerts, club nights and one-off experiences. The company went through a rough patch like all travel-based companies during the pandemic, but have just raised a large round of funding which they’re going to be using to expand more deeply in their current verticals, but also sports and travel, for example beach holidays, city breaks, ski trips and festivals.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Apr 2022
$150m
SERIES C
Oct 2019
$81.2m
SERIES B
Total funding: $259.7m
Company benefits
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
Company HQ
Vauxhall, London, UK
Leadership
Callum Negus-Fancey
(CEO)Founder of Lets Go Crazy Events (mass market dance events for 16-18 year olds, venues included Brixton Academy, Fabric and Ministry of Sound)
Liam Negus-Fancey
(President)Left school at 16 to build OnePiece (network of kids across the country to sell products)
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