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  • London
    Permanent
    £90,000 - £110,000

    You will be end to end accountable for a QSR business. You will be accountable for its continued growth over the next few years.

    • Exciting and fast paced brand

    • Fantastic Growth Opportunity

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  • Birmingham
    Permanent
    £35,000 - £45,000

    The Brand Finance Analyst will be responsible for providing insightful analysis and driving the brands performance forward. They will display strong business partnering and influencing skills when working with operational staff.

    • Well recognised hospitality organisation

    • Fast career progression

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  • London
    Permanent
    £22,000 - £25,000

    A fantastic opportunity to join an Industry leading organisation in the role of Sales Consultant within an exceptional working environment.

    Sell 'Personal Training courses and other selected fitness qualifications, with the ability to achieve set targets and reach sales conversation rates.

    This role will suit candidates with a real passion for the fitness sector.

    • An exciting opportunity for people with a passion for the fitness sector

    • Selling personal training and other fitness qualifications to consumers

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  • London
    Permanent
    £35,000 - £49,000

    A leading travel platform is looking for 3 new Market Managers based in London.

    Each role will look after a portfolio of hotels across the UK, France or Italy.

    • A leading travel platform is looking for 3 new Market Managers based in London.

    • Each role will look after a portfolio of hotels across the UK, France & Italy.

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  • London
    Permanent
    £40,000 - £50,000

    A London based start-up is looking for a B2C Sales Manager that loves travel!

    The successful candidate must have experience leading an internal B2C Sales function.

    This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Sales Manager and travel enthusiast to manage and grow a UK sales team.

    • A London based start-up is looking for a B2C Sales Manager that loves travel!

    • The candidate must have experience leading an internal B2C Sales function

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  • Edinburgh
    Permanent

    My client are looking for a dedicated and ambitious Events and Sales Manager that will be based in and around the Edinburgh region.

    • Looking for a dedicated and ambitious Events and Sales Manager

    • Exciting opportunity

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  • West Midlands
    Permanent
    £40,000 - £50,000

    The role as Customer Experience Manager will act as the face of the business in a field based roles across the West Midlands region, driving account responsibility and business growth.

    • Global Leader - Midlands Region

    • Sports & Fitness Industry

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  • Glasgow
    Permanent

    Due to rapid expansion, my client are looking for an ambitious and confident Sales Account Manager to join their team.

    • Exciting platfrom to grow career

    • Fantastic opprountity to work in a modern working environment

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  • England
    Permanent
    £34,000 - £36,000

    We are looking for a business savvy and enthusiastic business development manager to help us build partnerships with gardens and garden centres in the Southern England and the South of Wales.

    • Growing Social Network application

    • Gardening start up

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  • Guildford
    Permanent
    £18,000 - £30,000

    FTSE250 international business, continuous training and development with excellent career progression.

    Uncapped earnings with excellent benefits and fun sales environment.

    • Work for an Internationally renowned recruitment business.

    • Excellent culture, bonus schemes and fun sales environment.

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  • London
    Permanent
    £25,000 - £30,000

    Terrific opportunity to join a leading Legal recruitment team within the World's largest Recruitment Firm.

    • Excellent opportunity to develop a career in Legal Recruitment

    • Central London

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  • Wootton Bassett
    Permanent
    £25,000 - £28,000

    This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Telesales Executive to join a successful sales team based in Wootton Bassett selling luxury holidays.

    • Telesales Execuitve, Internal Sales Exeutive, Sales Advisor, Sales Executive

    • Telesales Execuitve, Internal Sales Exeutive, Sales Advisor, Sales Executive

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  • London
    Permanent
    £38,000 - £40,000

    To drive revenues from a portfolio of key accounts
    - To raise the profile of the worldwide network across all brands within these key segments
    - To act as the UK Ambassador within the UK community both internally and externally especially for the Meetings and Events market

    • A forward-thinking, multi-national hospitality company

    • a worldwide leader with 4500 sites and 250,000 employees

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  • England
    Permanent



    To direct the execution of strategy by planning and managing projects and programs throughout the project management lifecycle underpinned by fit to purpose methodology, tools, human resources and reporting.

    • Organisation delivering a tourist destination in Saudi Arabia

    • Opportunity to lead the delivery and PMO department

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  • Watford
    Permanent
    £32,000 - £35,000

    This is an opportunity to join a big corporation as a Head Chef, delivering exceptional meals on a daily basis.

    • Exceptional Career Development

    • Diverse Business

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  • West Midlands
    Permanent
    £40,000 - £45,000

    The Senior Sales Executive will be reporting directly to the Head of Sales and will need to provide exceptional customer service bringing on new business. The candidate should be pro-active and energetic with a proven track record in achieving sales targets.

    • £45,000 Salary

    • Uncapped Bonus

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  • Newcastle upon Tyne
    Permanent
    £20,000 - £22,000

    Our client is a leading company within business services, they are looking to expand there finance team due to a sustained period of growth.

    • Working for a global business who are going through a period of growth

    • Excellent benefits package

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  • England
    Permanent

    To formulate a strategy to help deliver a new tourist destination in Saudi Arabia.

    • Senior Strategy Manager

    • New mega project to develop a tourist destination in Saudi Arabia

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  • London
    Permanent
    £30,000

    This is an initial 4 week contract to support the Head of Catering for this market leading business. Contract starts mid-April.

    • Potential for permanent role

    • Market leading business

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  • Birmingham
    Permanent

    Reporting into the Finance Manager, this indivudal will support with reviewing all central overhead costs on a monthly basis and highlight any major discrepancies to budget and forcast. This individual will also have the opportunity to business partner with various budget holders within the business, as well as being responsible in reviewing annual budget and quarterly forcasting processes.

    • FTSE 250 Business with double digit growth

    • Future opportunities with continued progression

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  • Watford
    Permanent
    £38,000 - £50,000

    The Cluster Revenue Manager in Watford will be responsible for maximising revenue, market share and profits for multiple hotels through the strategic coordination of revenue management processes and procedures. To drive the continued development and growth of customer service standards, revenue and profits from multiple hotels

    • Global brand

    • Most recognisable name within hospitality

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  • Sutton
    Permanent
    £40,000 - £50,000

    A new Financial Controller is needed for a leading leisure and hospitality business located within the Sutton area.

    • Be part of an industry leading travel and leisure business.

    • There will be multiple stakeholder engagement.

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Leisure jobs

The professions that fall within the leisure industry are very broad. Leisure, travel and tourism are often categorised together and some of the companies that operate in the sectors employ professionals with very diverse skill sets.
 
Michael Page have a dedicated team of consultants who specialise in roles within the leisure, travel and tourism industry. Our teams operate from office right across the UK including Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, London, Manchester and Scotland.
 

Leisure jobs we recruit

The industries we recruit within for the leisure sector include manufacturing, property, retail, business services, legal, media and agency, healthcare and transport to name a few.
Some of the roles we recruit and currently have available include:
 
  • Centre Manager
  • Commercial Administrator
  • Customer Service Representative
  • Deputy Manager – Hospitality
  • Director of Marketing and Sales – Leisure/Hospitality
  • Financial Accountant
  • Food and Beverage Manager
  • Inside Sales Executive
  • Kitchen Manager
  • Kitchen Manager
  • Regional Sales Manager
  • Retail Development Executive – Travel
  • Sales Executive
  • Sales Executive – Aviation Training
  • Sales Manager
  • Senior Customer Insight Analyst
  • Project Manager
  • Project Manager – Leisure and Hospitality
 
There are numerous opportunities for a career within the leisure sector and we a regularly updating our listings with new job roles in different industries.
 

Key tasks of a professional in the leisure sector

The tasks you will be responsible in your role within the leisure sector, will of course depends on the position you hold and the industry your role falls within. If we look at two typical roles within the sector we can gain an understanding of a variety of typical responsibilities which professionals will be tasked with.
 
  • Project Manager – Leisure and Hospitality
    • Leading on a varied portfolio of projects 
    • Ensuring delivery to budget, time and scope
    • Prioritise and allocate project resources
    • Identify and communicate and risks in timely manner
    • Monitor and report project progress versus plan to relevant stakeholders
    • Champion best practices throughout organisation
  • Sales Executive
    • Assist customers with queries and complaints
    • Make outbound sales calls to both warm and cold leads
    • Conduct face-to-face meetings with potential customers
    • Nurture existing and ongoing relationships with key clients
    • Work in collaboration with field sales team to develop successful lead generation campaigns
    • Work in collaboration with marketing team to produce relevant marketing materials
       

Key skills for roles in the leisure sector

The skills required to work within the leisure industry vary both by role and by sector. A project manager for example will need strong organisational and communication skills, as well as good stakeholder management and a keen eye for detail.
 
Meanwhile a sales executive will need to be highly personable with a customer-first mind-set. They will need to be efficient and may also require negotiation and conflict-management skills to deal with difficult customers.
 
However there are some key competencies which will come up more often than not and will be valuable tools to anyone working within the sector of considering moving into leisure.
 
  • Project management skills
  • Proactive and self-motivated
  • Problem Solving
  • Passion for travel/internet/retail
  • Strategic thinking
  • Negotiating
  • Networking
  • Communication and stakeholder management
     

Qualifications and experience

Many of the roles require a background in hospitality, retail, gym or health and fitness, travel or customer service experience.
 
A Project Manager in Hospitality and Leisure working with different venue openings and refits will be required to have proven project management skills, experience managing key stakeholders and a qualification in the construction industry would be highly desirable.
 
A Sales manager within the Leisure sector might be expected to be experienced in conferencing have sales and account management experience and customer service.