Experience & Operations Manager

Virgin Active Limited; Greater London; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 35,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days annual leave

The People’s Pension with 3%

Complimentary Virgin Active membership

Club V discounts

Virgin Group employee discounts

20% off food and drink at KAUAI

Salary Finance access

Counselling support

Dexters corporate letting services

ePoints discounts

Job summary

Virgin Active is seeking an Experience & Operations Manager to lead the club’s day-to-day operations, champion hospitality, and deliver exceptional member experiences. You’ll guide and develop teams, ensure health, safety and compliance, and use member insights and commercial data to drive engagement.

You will recruit and coach staff, manage budgets and supplier relationships, collaborate with the General Manager to achieve objectives, and step in as Duty Manager when required.

Qualifications

• Experience leading teams in a customer-focused, operational environment.
• Strong customer service and memorable experiences.
• Experience using performance data and customer insights to drive engagement.
• Strong operational, organisational and problem solving skills.
• Excellent coaching, communication, and stakeholder management.
• Strong understanding of health & safety and compliance.
• Commercial awareness with budget and resource management.
• Flexible hours including evenings, weekends, and bank holidays.

Responsibilities

• Champion Virgin Active’s hospitality culture, ensuring brand standards are consistently delivered throughout the club.
• Ensure the highest standards of health & safety, compliance, cleanliness and operational excellence across the club.
• Lead and inspire Member Journey Hosts and Duty Managers to deliver exceptional member experiences and operational excellence.
• Drive member engagement, retention and loyalty through proactive hospitality initiatives and personalised member journeys.
• Use member insight and operational data to identify opportunities, improve performance and reduce member churn.
• Champion Virgin Active’s hospitality culture, ensuring brand standards are consistently delivered throughout the club.
• Recruit, coach and develop high-performing teams, creating a positive and engaging working environment.
• Manage departmental budgets, staffing, payroll and supplier relationships to support commercial performance.
• Collaborate with the General Manager and wider leadership team to deliver club objectives and continuously improve the member experience.
• Act as a Duty Manager when required, supporting the safe and effective operation of the club.

Skills

Team leadership

Customer service

Hospitality

Performance data

Stakeholder mgmt

Health & safety

Budget management

Flexible hours

Job description

As we evolve into Social Wellness Clubs, we are creating spaces and experiences that support every aspect of our members’ physical, mental, nutritional and social wellbeing. By bringing together expert guidance, genuine community, personalised experiences and innovative technology, we make wellness feel accessible, welcoming and easy to navigate. Virgin Active is committed to recruiting the finest people who share our passion for creating exceptional experiences and delivering world-class service every day.We are looking for Experience & Operations Manager to join our O** perations Team**

Role Type: Full time

Number of hours: 40

In this role you will play a part in being responsible for leading the club’s day to day operations while championing Virgin Active’s hospitality culture and delivering exceptional member experiences. The role leads and develops teams, ensures operational and compliance standards, and uses member insight and commercial data to drive engagement, retention and overall club performance.

The Role:

• Champion Virgin Active’s hospitality culture, ensuring brand standards are consistently delivered throughout the club.

• Ensure the highest standards of health & safety, compliance,cleanlinessand operational excellence across the club.

• Lead and inspire Member Journey Hosts and Duty Managers to deliver exceptional member experiences and operational excellence.

• Drive member engagement, retention and loyalty through proactive hospitality initiatives and personalised member journeys.

• Use member insight and operational data toidentifyopportunities, improveperformanceand reduce member churn.

• Champion Virgin Active’s hospitality culture, ensuring brand standards are consistently delivered throughout the club.

• Recruit,coachand develop high-performing teams, creating a positive and engaging working environment.

• Manage departmental budgets, staffing,payrolland supplier relationships to support commercial performance.

• Collaborate with the General Manager and wider leadership team to deliver clubobjectivesand continuously improve the member experience.

• Act as a Duty Manager whenrequired, supporting the safe and effective operation of the club.

Who We’re Looking For

• Proven experience leading teams within a customer focused, operational environment.

• Passion for delivering exceptional customer service and memorable experiences.

• Experience using performance data and customer insight to drive engagement and retention.

• Strong operational, organisational andproblem solvingskills.

• Excellent coaching,communicationand stakeholder management skills.

• Strong understanding of health & safety and operational compliance.

• Commercial awareness with experience managing budgets and resources.

• Flexible approach to working hours, including evenings,weekendsand bank holidays.

Our Perks

• 30 days (excluding bank holidays) annual leave, plus a Celebration Day and we want you take them
• Access to The Peoples Pension, with our contributions at 3%.
• Complimentary Virgin Active membership for you and a buddy. You can also get free membership for your children too, ability to take advantage of our Club V.
• We want you to love Virgin Active like we do, so you get discounts across Virgin active everything from guest passes to 50% offPTsessions.
• You will join Virgin Family where not only can you communicate with your colleagues across Virgin Group, but also many discounts (including Virgin Atlantic, Virgin Holidays and Virgin Media/O2)
• Maintaining a healthy diet while at work can be hard, so we offer all our team members 20% off food and drink at our KAUAI branches located in clubs.
• Managing finances can be difficult, so we offer access to Salary Finance. They can support you with loans and savings plans, as well as help you become a personal finance expert.
• Mental health is a cornerstone of wellbeing. Our Health Heroes employer assistance programme is there when you need a helping hand with 6 free counselling sessions.
• We know finding a new home to rent can be stressful. We partner with Dexters who offer complimentary corporate letting services meaning no tenant charges.
• Access to ePoints, offering loads of online discounts to retailers.

Pay Range

£33,797—£34,000 GBP