Area Manager - Multi-site Leisure Operations

From £50,000, depending on experience, with performance-related bonus plan, car allowance

Purpose and objectives of the role
This company is looking for a dynamic, motivated Area Manager to work with the Directors at multi-site level, in a rapidly growing business that is investing in the trampoline park and leisure industry.

The role is multi-functional with a key focus of meeting and exceeding business targets.

You will be fully responsible and accountable for a portfolio of leisure facilities with a turnover upwards of £4 - 5m.

Main duties and responsibilities
- Leading and developing a high-performing team of managers to deliver outstanding quality and customer satisfaction
- Contributing to strategic initiatives
- Deliver successful financial and operational performance against targets
- Holding regular review meetings with staff in developing a proactive focus on quality, overheads, organisation and delivery
- Ensuring a high level of teamwork and cohesion between all levels of staff
- Demonstrating dynamic leadership to both the management team and the wider Boost team
- Recruiting a high calibre team
- Managing, motivating, inspiring and performance-managing your team
- Managing KPIs and overseeing compliance
- Delivering the highest levels of occupancy and yield across a varied range of activities
- Leading on providing the highest level of customer service
- Providing detailed budget reports to Directors
- Monitoring all costs to maximise efficiency
- Ensuring all health and safety procedures are being carried out, including all operational safety checks, complying at all times with Health and Safety legislation and BSI standard

Skills and personal qualities
- Commercially astute, with good business knowledge
- A dynamic leader, with an engaging and energetic personality, with the ability to drive and motivate a team
- Excellent organisational and planning skills
- Personal drive, motivation and initiative
- Ability to work under pressure and to meet deadlines
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Hungry, with a desire to progress
- Flexibility and multi-tasking skills
- Excellent attention to detail
- Flexible attitude to working patterns and travel
- Ability to respond positively to challenges and negative situations
- An appetite for success
- Ambitious and driven with a proactive approach to your career

Experience
Essential
- Minimum 3 years multi-site experience at an area or regional management level
- Background in the leisure sector
- Evidence of a developing career with some longevity in roles
- Profit and loss experience
- Project management experience

Desirable
- Retail food experience
- Marketing or events experience

Qualifications and education
- Appropriate qualifications, preferably to degree level