Hours: 37 per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Service Area: Heritage
Department: Heritage Commercial Team
This is a rare opportunity to work with some of the UK's leading national and regional museums, historic sites and archives in the beautiful and culturally rich setting of the 'City of Bath' World Heritage Site.
We are looking for an experienced Commercial Manager to maximise the commercial performance of the Council's Heritage Services business unit, which includes the Roman Baths & Pump Room, Fashion Museum & Assembly Rooms and Victoria Art Gallery. The post-holder is a member of the Service's Management Team and Business Team.
The Commercial Manager is responsible for advising on primary and secondary income targets which are set through the Service's rolling five-year business plan. Turnover in 2017/18 is forecast to be GBP 18M. A major responsibility of the post is to ensure that the Roman Baths continues to perform in the top quartile of leading UK visitor attractions on a sustained basis.
Led by the post-holder, the Heritage Services Commercial department undertakes all marketing, retail, room hire, catering, market research, benchmarking, media & communications, fundraising, website development and web sales activities. The post-holder oversees three core teams for Marketing, Museums Trading and Corporate Hospitality, and is the monitoring officer for the external Catering Contract.
The successful applicant will have a proven track record of commercial management in a heritage organisation, museum or visitor attraction, including experience in most if not all areas of commercial activity mentioned above.
If you are interested in this post and require more detail after reading the job description please contact Stephen Bird on 01225 477750.
To apply, please use the online application facility. Alternatively telephone 01225 396409 (24 hours), quoting the reference number and post title for a paper application pack.
Please note we do not accept CV's.For further information on applying please see "Application Form Help" page on this site.
Interview Date: Thursday 29 June 2017.
Supporting Documents:
Job Description and Person Spec Commercial Manager 17CORP32300C