Customer Experience Manager/Deputy General Manager – Arts & Entertainment Venue - Up to £38,000+ Excellent benefits - Winchester

We are looking for a charismatic organised leader with some sparkle to sprinkle over the service and operational teams and provide a magical and seamless customer experience at this wonderful arts, music and entertainment venue hosting live events, workshops, exhibitions and talks in the heart of Winchester.

Key responsibilities:

• Recruit, coach and inspire the service teams to deliver an incredible customer experience.

• Ensure secondary spend opportunities are maximised across retail, food and beverage and events through upselling and promotions.

• Manage the day-to-day operations of the venue, ensuring it is clean, safety compliant and in good working order.

• Manage the venue through the peaks and troughs of trading, ensuring you have the right people in the right places to improve the customer experience and maximise revenue opportunities.

• Act as the General Manager in their absence including every other weekend.

• Support the General Manager on developing the overall business strategy.

Benefits

• Opportunity to develop and evolve the role further.

• Ongoing mentoring and development to support with future advancement to General Manager and beyond.

• Working for a large, supportive, inclusive, fun organisation with a genuine purpose to enrich the lives of the communities they serve.

• 5% employee/7.5% employer pension

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

• Life assurance 3x annual salary

• Health cash plan.

• Discounts on retail, leisure, going out and holidays

• Generous occupational maternity, paternity, adoption and sick pay.

• Working a 37-hour week

The person

• Outstanding leadership skills; experienced in coaching, developing, inspiring, influencing, and driving performance of service and operational teams.

• Service and Operational Management experience within leisure, recreation, tourism, entertainment or hospitality industry possibly as a Deputy/ General Manager, Operations Manager, Guest Experience Manager, Customer Service Manager or Centre Manager

• Experience in driving ancillary income by delivering a superior proactive customer experience.

• Have your own transport or living local to Winchester.

• Able to work up to two evenings a week and every other weekend.

• Ideally have an interest in arts, heritage, and culture and enriching the lives of whole communities.

For further information, please click apply with your CV we will be in touch promptly if you have the right level of experience.

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