General Manager - Kidspace Croydon Croydon, England
Job description
General Manager – Kidspace Croydon
- Full Time – Permanent Contract
- £35,000 to £40,000
- Croydon
Would you like to lead a team and oversee one of our indoor adventure play centres?
Kidspace Croydon is now recruiting for a General Manager to lead the team to success and ensure our visitors have the best experience.
About the Company
Escapade Group Limited operate the ultimate indoor and outdoor adventure parks. The Escapade Group currently operate three popular brands over five sites:
- Kidspace Croydon
- Kidspace Romford
- Hobbledown Adventure Farm Park & Zoo Epsom
- Hobbledown Heath Adventure Farm Park & Zoo Hounslow
- Gripped London! Hounslow
About the Role
The General Manager is responsible for the whole site and will ensure everything runs smoothly on a day-to-day business.
With a focus on health and safety at all times, the General Manager will drive the visitor experience, ensure the centre is clean and well-presented and will carefully control operating costs in line with the operating calendar and visitor volume.
Managing and overseeing a team, this role will motivate and lead a team to ensure they are fully engaged in delivering the best visitor experience possible.
This is a varied role which will be hands-on and will involve working in all areas and departments, including Duty Management shifts. Please be aware that the expectations would be to work a minimum of one day each weekend, and fluctuating working hours, including 'open' shifts and 'close' shifts.
Based in Croydon, this is a full-time permanent position and will work any five days out of seven. The salary for this role is circa £35,000/annum, plus team benefits, depending on experience.
About the Person
We are looking for a strong General Manager who is:
- A proven people manager who leads by example
- Passionate about delivering the best visitor experience
- Focussed on health and safety, employee engagement, the visitor experience, and cleanliness
- Able to respond to visitor feedback and issues and ensure a positive outcome
- Experienced at managing and controlling operating costs and budgets
- Resilient and tenacious
- Dynamic, creative and solutions focussed
- Organised, structured and always striving for excellence and continuous improvement
- Well presented, confident and outgoing
- Comfortable working in a very fast paced environment
- Previous experience of working in a visitor attraction/venue is highly attractive
IOSH Certificate is also desirable for this role.
How to Apply
If you believe you have what it takes to come on-board and would like to be part of something new and exciting, we would love to hear from you. Please simply apply by hitting the apply button.
Recruitment Agencies
Please note, we are not working with any recruitment agencies at this time. As such, we do not accept any speculative CV’s and/or candidate profiles and are, therefore, unable to consider these.
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