Manager, Testing Program Management Office (Contract)

Job Summary : WHO ARE WE?

WHO ARE WE?

Live Nation Entertainment is the world’s leading live entertainment company, comprised of global market leaders : Ticketmaster, Live Nation Concerts, and Live Nation Media & Sponsorship.

Ticketmaster is the global leader in event ticketing with over 500 million tickets sold annually and more than 12,000 clients worldwide.

Live Nation Concerts is the largest provider of live entertainment in the world promoting more than 40,000 shows and 100+ festivals annually for nearly 4,000 artists in over 40 countries.

These businesses allow Live Nation Media & Sponsorship to create strategic music marketing programs that connect over 1,000 brands with the 98 million fans that attend Live Nation Entertainment events each year. .

WHO ARE YOU?

Passionate and motivated. Driven, with an entrepreneurial spirit. Resourceful, innovative, forward thinking and committed.

At Live Nation Entertainment, our people embrace these qualities, so if this sounds like you then please read on!

WHAT THIS ROLE WILL DO

• This role will be dedicated to enterprise-wide financial systems transformation, supporting system testing from a program management standpoint for Oracle Fusion and OneStream testing across 40+ countries
• This role will be focused on supporting testing preparation cycles prior to testing kickoff and testing cycles including system integration testing, user acceptance testing, regression testing, and performance testing
• You will partner with both functional and technical Live Nation employees and third-party contractors
• You will be responsible for working with Global Process Owners to identify scope of testing for each testing cycle and working with division leads to identify testers from each division
• You will be responsible for monitoring daily testing progress within Jira (testing management tool)
• You will lead daily testing progress calls with Live Nation functional and technical support and third-party contractors to ensure teams are on track and defects are being identified and effectively resolved
• You will be responsible for working closely with Live Nation IT to ensure Live Nation IT owned activities are on track including boundary system connectivity, conversion activities, and security access
• You will be responsible for monitoring tester progress during testing cycles and escalating any delays to division leads to ensure the overall testing timeline remains on track
• You will be responsible for communicating testing updates to the Steering Committee including identifying areas of escalation
• You will facilitate testing kick-off and exit meetings for each testing cycle
• This is a temporary role for 6-8 months with the potential to extend role to continue to support testing or support additional activities related to the financial systems transformation

WHAT THIS PERSON WILL BRING

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent qualification required
• 5+ years of experience in large-scale financial systems transformation
• Experience with managing testing cycles within a financial systems transformation including identifying scope of testing and creating and managing testing prep activities plan
• Experience with Jira preferred
• Experience with testing as part of a system implementation for a public company a plus
• Experience with Oracle Fusion and OneStream a plus
• Experience working in consulting a plus
• Detail-oriented, organized, and able to work efficiently and independently in a fast-paced environment
• Exceptional teamwork and collaboration skills

Live Nation’s policy regarding vaccinations and masking related to a pandemic or other infectious disease control measures, acts of God, health and safety mandates and / or restrictions imposed by applicable local, state or federal governments has evolved over time.

Currently, we strongly encourage employees to be fully vaccinated from such infectious diseases for which vaccinations are available.

You are expected to follow Live Nation’s health and safety protocols and policies as they change from time to time