Deputy Manager - Leisure And Bowling Centre

Flow Sports Personnel Ltd; Cheltenham; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Monthly bonus scheme

Centre profits share (half yearly)

50% food discount

Pension plan (optional)

28 days holiday + length of service

Flexible working

Job summary

Flow Sports Personnel Ltd seeks a Deputy Manager for a fast-paced leisure/retail centre in the Cheltenham area. You will coach and mentor staff on shift, run the centre front of house and support back-of-house operations, ensuring safety and high service standards.

You will be responsible for delivering financial targets, driving sales, and maintaining exceptional customer experiences, with a clear path to General Manager within 12–18 months.

Qualifications

• Minimum of eighteen months experience in a customer-facing management role ideally within leisure, hospitality, or retail.
• Evidence of delivering on financial targets, driving business and sales.
• Passion for people including experience of coaching and developing your team.
• Fanatical about customer service.
• Ambition for success.
• Willing to work nights and weekends.

Responsibilities

• Coaching and mentoring the team on shift and ensuring the centre is a safe and fun environment for customers.
• Hands-on across all areas of the busy centre.
• Support the General Manager with back-of-house duties and run an exceptional operation front of house.
• Deliver financial targets and service standards.

Skills

Customer service

Team coaching

Sales targets

Ambition

Night/weekend shifts

Job description

Are you an ambitious manager looking for a highly autonomous role, where you will take accountability for the centre in the absence of the General Manager?

Are you looking for an employer that will invest in you and develop you to a General Manager within twelve to eighteen months?

Are you looking for a business that is financially stable and has very exciting growth plans?

As a Deputy Manager for our client, you will be at the very centre of the customer and team experience. Taking accountability for the centre in the absence of the General Manager.

The role is varied, exciting and challenging. Your responsibilities will range from coaching and mentoring the team on shift, to ensuring the centre is a safe and fun environment for customers. You will be hands on across all areas of the busy centre.

Within our clients fast-paced, dynamic world, Deputy Managers are trained across all areas of the centre to support the effective operation of their business. You will support the General Manager with back of house duties, as well as running an exceptional operation front of house. You will be responsible for delivering financial targets and service standards.

To be successful you should have:

• a minimum of eighteen months experience in a customer-facing management role ideally within the leisure, hospitality, or retail industry
• evidence of delivering on financial targets, driving business and sales
• a passion for people including experience of coaching and developing your team
• be fanatical about customer service
• have ambition for success
• be willing to work nights and weekends

Join our client as an Assistant Manager, in return you'll get:

• an excellent salary as well as the opportunity to earn an extra £1 per hour, paid to you every month as part of our monthly bonus scheme
• 40-hour contract, plus additional pay for any extra shifts you work
• the opportunity to earn an outperformance bonus, you will be given a share of your centre profits once you hit target - paid half yearly
• 50% off food when you are working
• optional pension plan
• 28 days holiday
• earn additional days holiday with length of service, up to five days
• one in four weekends off
• ongoing training and development, with the opportunity to fast track your career
• free bowling / golf game vouchers every month
• 30% discount off food and drink for you and up to five friends
• access to our clients Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family
• well-being training to support you in the workplace
• opportunity to join the healthcare cash plan
• financial long service awards
• a £15 donation to Barnardo's when you complete your induction
• enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption, and shared parental leave benefits
• flexible working, allowing you to have the perfect work life blend