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We are looking for a creative, enthusiastic and driven individual to join our team with specific responsibility for booking all our tours, sit-down seasons and developing new relationships and opportunities.
The successful applicant will have a proven track record of tour booking or venue programming and be highly organised and numerate.
The Tour Booker reports to the Executive Producer and works closely within a team of five.
If you have the skills to achieve our goals and share our love for theatre for children and their families – we’d like to hear from you!
Freckle Ltd is an equal opportunities employer.
Freckle wishes to appoint an experienced, pro-active and driven Tour Booker to undertake the booking and scheduling of all our productions on tour in the UK and occasionally abroad. The role is office based in Brighton, working full time 10am to 6pm Monday to Friday.
The Tour booker will;
- Lead on the booking of all the tours and seasons including negotiation of deals and all contractual terms with consideration of barring clauses and holidays.
- Book tours with excellent routing taking into account travel time by mini bus of the company and their working hours.
- Regularly analyse all potential deals and box office potentials and comparing past deals and sales data when descision making to maximise income on tour and work with the producers on forecasts and setting targets.
- Act as main point of contact for all venues, ensuring the timely and efficient administration and delivery of all contractual and venue paperwork, including but not limited to; deal memos, venue contracts and collating marketing information and technical information.
- Work with the producers and marketing colleagues on ticket pricing and performance schedules and liaise with the production manager on get ins and get outs and technical schedules.
- Utilise our extensive database of venues and previous deals, financial results and past communication.
- Keep the venue contact database and box office history database up to date.
- Develop new relationships with venues and programmers and proactively maintain current relationships.
- To keep abreast of the theatre industry and current trends – in particular the development of new work for children.
- Attend first nights and press nights for Freckle Productions as
- Visit and meet with venues as required.
- See other productions as directed but proactively seeing productions in different venues.
- Attend conferences and industry events as required.
Essential requirements:
- Significant experience of working in the theatre industry with demonstrable knowledge of venue programming or tour booking, deal negotiations and
- Demonstrable experience of working collaboratively within a team.
- Tact and skill in dealing with venue contacts including positive negotiation,
- Excellent attention to detail, excellent verbal and written communication skills with good information technology skills.
- Proven administration and numeracy
- Good knowledge of computer packages in particular Word, Excel and FileMaker Pro.
- Proven understanding of commercial viability including budgeting and Profit & Loss and sales targets.
- Able to work under pressure and to strict deadlines.
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