If you feel driven to inspire people to have fun, be more active and improve their wellbeing and would like a job that will make a real difference to local people’s lives, then Freedom Leisure is the place for you! We have a strong purpose and commitment to support our local communities and hard-to-reach groups encouraging them to become more active, contributing to improved lives.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our team, as a Sales and Marketing Manager for our leisure facilities within the South Somerset district. We want to let everyone in the area know what fantastic facilities and activities the communities have, this is where you come in!

You will be working with the local teams to develop local marketing plans to drive participation, supporting all areas of the local community to get active. You will be responsible for consistently achieving sales targets through the motivation and ongoing training for all the site teams as well as designing, delivering and analysing marketing campaigns across our key business areas, which include swimming, gym and group exercise participation, soft play, racket sports, catering, retail lines and children’s activities, which includes parties.

You will be working closely with site teams to bring together engaging customer content, timely campaigns and results. You will be measured on the success of campaigns and ultimately the volume of new enquiries generated. You will need to identify your customer target markets and how best to market to them.

You’ll need to clearly show evidence and give examples of how you have implemented & successfully delivered marketing plans across multiple products & services. Hands-on experience of promoting products & services across digital and social channels is essential. You need to be confident in your own abilities, be decisive and work well within a team.

In the event that a high volume of suitable applications are received, the post may close prior to the specified closing date. Please apply as soon as possible if interested.

Hours: 37 hours per week, Monday to Sunday

Requirements

• Experience of managing a varied workload.
• Working in Senior Sales and Marketing role
• Staff management experience
• The skill to establish key relationships swiftly and appropriately
• An ability to feed into and translate into action the marketing strategy and objectives
• IT skills to include Microsoft Word and Excel
• Well developed interpersonal skills, able to negotiate and persuade people both internally and externally
• Team orientated approach, able to work across organization boundaries and demonstrate interest and be supportive of the work of colleagues
• Mobility to travel across sites
• Outgoing personality with a ‘can do’ attitude
• Flexible and adaptable
• A target driven person

Desirable

• Working in a leisure environment
• An ability to analyse problems, situations and information, think laterally and present creative solutions

Benefits

We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind, so what can we offer you?

• My Staff Shop, our very own staff benefit scheme, gives employees access to a great range of benefits. Get discounts on cinema tickets, travel bookings, high street e-vouchers, gift cards, days out, leisure activities and your day to day spending.
• Discounted Staff membership (including family members)
• Incremental holidays
• Employee Assistance Programme - 24/7 confidential, independent and professional counselling.
• Company pension
• Various insurance and saving schemes
• Financial advice
• Cycle-to-work and Car Leasing tax-efficient schemes (salaried staff only, depending on earnings).
• All this as well as fully funded training and career progression opportunities in a team working environment supporting your local community to improve lives through leisure.

Closing date: 28th March 2025

Salary: up to £31,972 per annum