Group Sales & Business Development Manager - Leisure, Arts and Cultural Trust

Up to £55,000 + bonus+ Benefits

Winchester/Hybrid/Travel throughout Hampshire

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Our client is a fantastic Leisure, Arts and Cultural Trust with over 20 diverse arts, entertainment and visitor attraction venues hosting a range of productions, exhibitions, events, workshops and classes to the communities of Hampshire and beyond.

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The Group Sales and Business Development Manager is a newly created role and will be central to developing the Trust's commercial and partnership strategies to increase visitor numbers and revenue, whilst instilling a more commercial customer centric culture throughout the organisation.

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Benefits

• Opportunity to develop and evolve the role further.

• Ongoing mentoring from the CEO and Marketing Director to support with future advancement.

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

• Annual bonus potential

• 5% employee/7.5% employer pension

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

• Life Assurance 3x annual salary

• Electric car lease salary sacrifice scheme.

• Travel expenses away from the Winchester Head Office.

• Hybrid working.

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The Ideal candidate

• Strategic thinker and entrepreneurial attitude towards developing a commercial business.

• Experience developing b2b and b2c sales and CRM strategy with the leisure, travel, tourism, hotels or hospitality industry, possibly as a Director of Sales, Regional/Group Sales Manager, Regional/Group Business Development Manager.

• Strategic partnership business development experience ideally into schools, travel operators, cruise line operators or hotel chains.

• Experience in coaching, supporting, and leading cross functional sales teams and influencing the wider business to build a more results driven customer centric culture.

• Demonstrate tangible commercial achievements in sales/revenue growth in previous roles.

• Stake holder management experience across marketing, sales and operations.

• Business and data analysis experience for data driven decision making.

• Full driving licence and use of a car.

• Able to commute to Winchester 1-2 days week and travel throughout Hampshire 1-2 days week.

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

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