Starlite opens registration to fill more than 1,000 job positions this summer

The Starlite Occident festival in Marbella has opened registration to fill more than 1,000 vacancies this summer in its fifteenth edition, with contracts lasting up to five months to cover various positions in logistics, catering, security, or commercial areas, as announced by the organization this Thursday.

The festival will take place this year from June 19 to August 29, in a new edition marked by the anniversary celebration that will fill Marbella's summer nights with “live music, culture, and gastronomy in a unique space,” the company pointed out.

With the goal of filling more than a thousand job positions, the event's organization has opened registration to apply for vacancies, which can be done through the festival's website (www.starliteoccident.com/recruitment), where interested parties can submit their applications.

Specifically, the company has highlighted that they are seeking staff to fill jobs in logistics, catering, ticketing, security, hospitality, commercial area, and lounge.

According to the company, these vacancies also include various professional offers with roles such as ticket sellers, ushers, area and bar managers, waiters, tray carriers, runners, reservation staff, hostesses, administrative staff, maintenance personnel, security guards, drivers, parking assistants, logistics coordinators, office staff, cooks, kitchen assistants, store managers, and salespeople, among others.

“Being part of the festival's organization represents an extraordinary employment opportunity, especially for workers from the Costa del Sol, who express this by returning each year to apply for the selection process,” they noted.

The contracts will have a duration of up to five months and over 90% of the people are local, the festival's organization highlighted, noting that it has a 70% repeat rate among its employees, “an exceptional figure within the sector that reflects the quality of the work environment and the loyalty bond built with the local talent.”

The face-to-face interviews will take place from May 27 to 29 at the Marbella Congress Palace, where the final selection of future workers for the fifteenth edition of the Starlite festival will be concluded.

Starlite in Numbers

The total annual impact of Starlite Occident Marbella in terms of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), including the impact of the festival's organization and that generated by the attendees, amounts to more than 315.5 million euros at the close of the last edition, according to the company based on a report by PwC.

Regarding its role as a job engine, it further elaborated that the total annual impact of the event, including that of the organization and the attendees, is 6,450 full-time equivalent (FTE) jobs. To this, they added the impact on other sectors such as transportation, accommodation, catering, and commerce, with the festival attracting more than 350,000 attendees with an international profile that represents 48.3%.

Despite the good billing results of the festival, last year it was forced to increase its bank debt and delay payments to suppliers due to a lack of cash flow, as reported by El Conciso last March. Among the reasons, there is the amortization of 8 million euros of bank financing "ahead of schedule and without notice" by its company Starlite Music Group, although the founders assured that they had taken measures to improve liquidity.

The amortization of this amount was reflected in the Central de Información de Riesgos del Banco de España, affecting its line of financing,” according to the newspaper, which led to “Starlite starting to pay late to suppliers, delaying the payment of salaries to workers, contributions to Social Security and to the Treasury.”

"All this caused us to delay payments to suppliers. With whom we have been working for many years and who have accompanied us historically, they understood and we negotiated a payment plan. They know that Starlite can pay late, but it always pays. Otherwise, we would not have been working with many of the same suppliers for 15 years,” declared Sandra García-Sanjuán, the event's founder at that time.