The Department of Innovation and Growth at City of London is currently recruiting a Business Manager (Culture) who will play a key role in delivering new and ambitious plans on the development of the City as a world-leading destination.
Key responsibilities include:
- Supporting the business planning process & monitoring performance
- Managing and delivering projects which support strategic and/or tactical priorities of the Destination Team
- Managing budgets, internal bidding processes as well as invoicing across the team
- Providing centralised asset management (buildings and paintings)
- Managing contracts, ensuring compliance across all parties
- Identifying and delivering multiple income-generation vehicles for assets and services of the Destination Team
- Establishing a network of key partners – industry bodies, professional experts, relevant public-sector organisations and commercial partners, as well as Destination Team Heads of Service and their teams
- Set out the case for any new income stream through the development of a fully costed business proposal and delivery model, working closely with service heads and key internal/external partners
- Assessing the success of all existing income generating stream across Destination Team assets and services, delivering detailed recommendations
- Presenting new (or revised) business proposals to senior officers and Members as appropriate to achieve their support
Key skills & experience:
- Educated to degree level (or with equivalent experience)
- Project management qualification or significant experience of managing commercial projects, ideally (but not essentially) with a cultural or tourism context
- Strong evidence of accountancy capabilities
- Significant managerial experience in a similar or related role, preferably within a gallery or museum environment
- Proven experience of managing internal and external contractors
- Strong and demonstrable knowledge and experience of Health and Safety compliance
- Technical understanding of collection management issues
- Extensive experience in a business-led organisation with proven experience of leading change initiatives and improving organisational potential
- Proven experience and a track record of growing income within an organisation
- Excellent financial planning and business modelling experience
- An empathy for and understanding of the social, cultural, touristic, economic, educational and commercial purpose of cultural assets and the complexities of developing business opportunities in such environment
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How to apply: please click here to apply online by 23 May.
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