Venue Operations Director

Silverstone Circuits Limited; Silverstone; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Silverstone Circuits is seeking a Venue Operations Director to lead operational excellence in a world-class motorsport venue. This role involves strategic leadership, shaping long-term operational strategies, and ensuring the highest standards in service delivery and customer experience.

Qualifications

• Extensive leadership experience in large-scale venue operations.
• Strong commercial, project and financial acumen.
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Drive strategic transformation and operational excellence across the venue.
• Ensure seamless execution of daily operations and safety standards.
• Establish and drive strategic planning and development projects.

Skills

Leadership Experience

Strategic Thinking

Project Management

Interpersonal Skills

Budget Management

Job description

Venue Operations Director

Application Deadline: 18 July 2025

Department: Venue Services

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Silverstone

Description

Silverstone Circuits is a world-leading motor sport, leisure, conferencing and event management venue. Home of the Formula 1 British Grand Prix, Moto GP and British GP Championship, its impressive heritage and premium offering attracts high numbers of visitors to motorsport and corporate events year on year.

The Role

A new and hugely exciting opportunity now exists for an exceptional Venue Operations Director to drive strategic transformation, operational excellence and high-performance delivery across our iconic venue.

Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer and Executive Leadership Team (ELT), the role holder will provide strategic leadership across operational functions, ensuring the seamless execution of the day to day running of the venue in terms of operations, maintenance and safety of the Silverstone Circuits venue and property portfolio, ensuring its readiness for all activities and events. The role will be pivotal in embedding robust operational frameworks, optimising cross-departmental collaboration and enhancing service delivery standards to meet and exceed business objectives ensuring our customer and fan experience is of the highest possible standard.

With a focus on long-term growth, sustainability and financial control, the Venue Operations Director will shape the future of Silverstone’s operational excellence. In addition, they will play a key role in establishing and driving forward strategic planning and development projects for the venue and business to include capital, capital replacement and operational projects and leisure products integration alongside new initiatives.

This is a high-profile role that demands balancing visionary strategic planning with hands-on execution and implementation.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Extensive leadership experience in similar large-scale venue, sports, leisure of entertainment operations, with a proven track record of delivering operational excellence.
• Strategic thinker with strong commercial, project and financial acumen, capable of shaping and executing long-term operational strategies.
• Demonstrated expertise in complex project management, stakeholder engagement and risk mitigation.
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, able to build relationships quickly with a proven ability to manage cross-functional stakeholders at all levels internally and externally.
• A can-do attitude with a relentless focus on operational excellence and resilience able to work from strategy through to implementation using strong leadership skills, with experience in building, mentoring and managing teams.
• Strong capability of budgetary management, cost control and P&L responsibility. Facility Management experience preferred.
• Flexible, adaptable and creative mentality committed to delivering the highest performance standards.
• A team player who always demonstrates a collaborative and respectful behaviour.

*For this opportunity, we are exclusively partnering with PSD Group Silverstone for recruitment ([e-mail]).*

Silverstone is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults at risk and expects all team members and volunteers to share this commitment. Background checks and DBS checks at the appropriate level will be obtained prior to employment commencing.