Business Development Manager

Business Development Manager

Superb opportunity for a driven professional who would thrive working autonomously in a strategic support role in the hospitality sector, drawing upon your proven experience in a customer facing multi-site management role. If you have the passion to deliver a clear operational plan in a demanding and fast paced environment, this opportunity to be part of an award winning team is not to be missed.

Admiral Taverns is the UK’s number one community pub group and takes immense pride in running wet-led community pubs across the UK, with a head office and field based team of over 100 dedicated employees supporting licensees. Awarded ‘Pub Company of the Year 2016’ the company has a strong belief that pubs are the heartbeat of communities, and the business works hard to forge strong relationships with licensees, striving for success. Admiral Taverns has hundreds of years of pub experience within the business, with some of the best Development Managers in the industry. The last five years has seen a renewed focus on what really matters to licensees and their communities in order to support them and make a genuine difference to their business. The personality of each licensee is what makes each pub and Admiral Taverns recognise this and strive to provide tailored support as one size does not fit all, setting the company apart from competition.

Reporting to the Regional Operations Director and working closely with head office colleagues, as a Business Development Manager you’ll be responsible for building and maintaining strong open business relationships with licensees in your allocated region, which currently consists of a portfolio of 43 public houses. Your remit will also cover recruitment of new suitably funded tenants.

Your main responsibilities and duties will include, although not be limited to;

* Conducting regular and effective business meetings with licensees, delivering appropriate levels of challenge and support to establish trust and confidence
* Developing and maintaining a clear operational plan to deliver your budget with a focus on the five key performance areas detailed below;
* Driving income and sales
* Reducing failure and improving average tenure
* Receiving payment
* Investing to maintain and grow income
* Reducing costs
* Supporting and improving existing tenant quality through utilisation of company training and development resources
* Delivering rental growth via effective business assessment, negotiation, capex and non-beer sales strategies
* Developing and maintaining an on-going capex programme to drive growth
* Delivering a pro-active recruitment plan that improves the calibre of licensees across the area and recruiting suitably funded tenants and work effectively with the credit team

To be considered for this Business Development Manager role, you MUST have the following experience, skills, knowledge and attributes;

* Proven experience of profit responsibility within a customer facing multi-site management role, ideally gained within the hospitality sector
* Commercial acumen and numerate with the ability to interpret and challenge profit and loss reports, cash flows, business plans and other financial documents
* Commitment to succeed in a demanding role whilst working to high standards
* Excellent negotiation and influencing skills with the drive and determination to identify business development opportunities, build customer relationships and win profitable sales
* High level of problem solving and decision making skills
* Superb planning, organisation and prioritisation skills
* Ability to communicate and influence a wide range of people
* High level of computer literacy including Word, Outlook and Excel plus basic PowerPoint
* Full UK driving licence

In return;

You’ll be joining a successful, well established company where your efforts and results will be recognised and rewarded. You’ll have the opportunity to be a key part of its ongoing success.

Salary: Circa £57,600, negotiable dependent on experience, plus annual performance based bonus.

Benefits: Company car or car allowance, laptop, mobile phone, 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, generous pension scheme with employer contribution of 7.5% to match employee contribution of 2.5%, income protection cover, death in service scheme, and private health care.

Contracted Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Hours of Work: Monday to Friday 9am – 5pm. Flexibility will be required to meet business and licensee needs

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Field based visiting licensees across South and East Yorkshire, plus some of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

This Business Development Manager vacancy is advertised by JVP Jobs on behalf of the employer Admiral Taverns. At JVP Jobs we believe in providing complete transparency for you the job seeker, and by applying for this role you give express consent for us to directly submit your application to our above named client in conjunction with this vacancy only. Please note that JVP is an advertising company NOT a recruitment agency, therefore all applications will be reviewed directly by the employer Admiral Taverns, and should they wish to progress your application further, they will be in contact with you.

Admiral Taverns requests for no recruitment agency contact please.

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**Operations, Manager, Hospitality, Business Development, Sales, South Yorkshire, East Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire**