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Commercial Hospitality and Events Manager Location: Oxfordshire Salary: £40,000-£45,000 per annum Contract: Full-time, permanent About the Organisation This leading independent day and boarding school is renowned for academic excellence, outstanding facilities, and a vibrant co-curricular programme. Alongside its core educational mission, the organisation operates a growing commercial enterprise, offering high-quality hospitality, venue hire, and events services to external clients and community partners. The school is now seeking an experienced and commercially minded Commercial Hospitality and Events Manager to lead and expand this important area of its operations. The Role The Commercial Hospitality and Events Manager will oversee the development, management, and delivery of a wide range of commercial activities across the school's estate. This includes hospitality services, external events, venue hire, sports facility bookings, and commercial partnerships. You will play a key role in maximising revenue, ensuring exceptional customer experience, and promoting the school as a premier venue for events, conferences, and community engagement. Key Responsibilities Lead the planning, coordination, and delivery of all commercial events, including conferences, corporate bookings, community events, and hospitality functions. Manage venue hire operations, ensuring efficient scheduling, high-quality service delivery, and strong client relationships. Develop and implement strategies to grow commercial revenue while maintaining the organisation's values and reputation. Oversee hospitality services, including catering coordination, event logistics, and service standards. Collaborate with internal teams (catering, estates, marketing, finance, and academic departments) to ensure seamless event delivery. Manage budgets, financial reporting, pricing structures, and performance targets for commercial operations. Lead and motivate a small team of hospitality and events staff, including casual workers. Ensure compliance with safeguarding, health and safety, licensing, and regulatory requirements. Promote the school's facilities through marketing initiatives, partnerships, and client outreach. Maintain excellent customer service standards and act as the primary point of contact for commercial clients. About You Essential Skills & Experience Proven experience in hospitality, events management, venue operations, or commercial services. Strong commercial awareness with a track record of delivering revenue growth. Excellent organisational and project management skills. Confident communicator with the ability to build strong client relationships. Experience managing teams and coordinating cross-departmental work. Ability to work flexibly, including evenings and weekends when events require. High standards of professionalism, customer service, and attention to detail. Desirable Experience working within an educational, cultural, or heritage environment. Knowledge of venue management systems or booking software. Marketing or business development experience. Why Join Us? Work within a prestigious and supportive school community. Opportunity to shape and grow a key commercial function. Access to excellent facilities and staff benefits. Competitive salary of £40,000-£45,000, depending on experience. If you are Interested in this role, please contact Giles for further Information on 01865 728362 Blue Arrow is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer and is committed to helping find great work opportunities for great people. TPBN1_UKCT

VolkerFitzpatrick offers a range and depth of civil engineering, infrastructure and building services. We contribute to vital parts of the nation's life through projects of strategic importance, while delivering those less visible, yet essential, works required by both private and public sectors. We build, renew, maintain highways, airports, railway infrastructure, and commercial, industrial and educational buildings. We are looking for a talented Senior Planner who is experienced in planning for civil works, to join our Strategic Projects team. Your strategic insight and technical know-how will ensure that every programme is robust, regularly monitored and updated to suit the needs of each project. What You'll Be Doing In this dynamic and influential role, you'll be at the heart of project planning, ensuring programmes are realistic, achievable, and aligned with client expectations. Your responsibilities will include: Develop and produce fully logic linked and integrated 'bid winning' tender programmes comprising the design, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning and handover strategies that are compliant with tender requirements, design and chosen methodology without assistance. Visiting sites regularly to provide hands-on planning support and resolve challenges. Monitoring progress and identifying risks early, ensuring proactive solutions are in place. Providing expert planning advice across multiple projects, influencing outcomes and driving excellence. About you Proven project planning experience Detailed knowledge of using planning software, Primavera P6 / Asta Powerproject Experience with working on NEC/JCT contract types Experience of working on Civils, Aviation or highways projects Degree qualified (or holds an equivalent qualification) Hold a valid UK driving licence If your past experience doesn't match perfectly with every requirement of the job description, we still encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for us. Why work with us? VolkerFitzpatrick is under the umbrella of VolkerWessels UK which is a multidisciplinary contractor that delivers innovative engineering solutions across the civil engineering and construction sectors including rail, highways, airport, marine, energy, water, and environmental infrastructure. By utilising the specialist skills of each business unit within VolkerWessels UK, VolkerFitzpatrick are able to ensure our staff provide unrivalled resources and expertise to our clients. We offer competitive rewards and benefits, recognising the value we place on our employees. We offer a range of benefits, including: Competitive salary Competitive annual leave and an additional day off on your birthday Option to buy additional annual leave Private medical care Pension Life Assurance Cycle to Work scheme Shopping and restaurants vouchers, rewards, and discounts Training and development opportunities-comprehensive skills-based training Family friendly polices including enhanced maternity benefits Employee Assistance programme Mental health, physical health, and financial support 24/7 Virtual GP service Fairness, inclusion and respect We believe in pushing boundaries in the pursuit of fairness, inclusion and respect. So, our teams can be comfortable that, whatever their background, VolkerWessels UK is a place where they can be themselves and thrive. If you need support with your application, please contact us at Additional information Note for Recruitment Agencies: Our preference is to hire directly, and we will reach out to our Preferred Supplier List (PSL) agencies if this particular role qualifies for release. We kindly request that you refrain from sending speculative CVs. In the event of speculative CV submissions, no fees will be applicable, and we kindly ask that all inquiries to be directed VolkerWessels UK is committed to maintaining healthy, safe and productive working conditions for its entire staff and therefore a drugs & alcohol screening is mandatory for all. TPBN1_UKTJ