Visitor Services Supervisor - Visitor Experience

  • Job Reference: 00028765-1
  • Date Posted: 19 April 2024
  • Recruiter: The National Trust for Scotland
  • Location: Crathes Castle - North East
  • Salary: On Application
  • Bonus/Benefits: £26,884 - £28,684 pro-rata, per annum
  • Sector: Temp, Interim & Seasonal, Venue, Attraction, Travel and Entertainment, Customer Service
  • Job Type: Permanent

Job Description

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES

Visitor experience
• Manage the day-to-day operation of the property and environs to ensure an excellent customer/visitor experience
• Develop and promote new products and offers to enhance member and visitor enjoyment, tell the property’s stories and drive visitor numbers.
• Create a culture of ‘exceptional service, every time’, leading by example with the warm welcome you give
• Act as one of the property group’s duty manager team, responsible for ensuring a safe and smooth visitor operation, addressing issues, and opening/closing up the buildings.
• Help achieve targets for the completion of visitor surveys to understand more about our visitors.
• Supervising our Collection Care Assistant and Housekeeping to ensure property standards are maintained.

Retail & Admissions
• Work with the team to ensure sales targets are met.
• Work with the team to ensure Membership sales on target
• Supporting the team with merchandising and stock management.
• Support a health & safety culture, ensuring compliance with all mandatory requirements.
• Accountable for cost-effective stock management, ordering, storage and wastage control.
• Understand and adhere to the sale of alcohol legislation.

Property Management
• Working closely with the Visitor Services Manager to ensure Health & Safety procedures, emergency procedures, and environmental procedures are adhered to.
• Oversight/maintenance of the buildings with the support of the regional surveyor.
• Responsible for day to day financial administration at the property, including cash/till reconciliation, day-end and week-end reports and reconciliation, completion of the banking processes, and reporting of working hours for payroll.
• Work within the budget constraints set for the Property.
• Support the Visitor Services Manager& National Estates team with the management of our rental properties.

Finance performance
• Work closely with the Visitor Services Manager to support with achieving our annual budgets and cost control.
• Supervise safe and secure till operations, perform end-of-day income reconciliation as a duty manager and conduct end of month and year financial procedures.
• Ensure the longevity of the Trust’s buildings and fittings is maximised through appropriate maintenance and/or replacement regimes