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Venue Director - Fareham Live, Trafalgar Entertainment

  •  South East
  •  Â£50k+
  •  Full time
  •  Closes May 13, 2025
  •  terecruitment@trafalgar.global
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Description

Job Description

The Venue Director is crucial to the overall success of Fareham Live. As the senior leader on site the post-holder is responsible for:

  • Leading the wider team; ensuring all venue functions are optimised
  • Focussing on the welcome for visiting producers, promoters and artists
  • Representing the venue as a senior leader in the local community
  • Positively driving ongoing commercial success across all areas of the business
  • Delivering and mobilising the company's vision, mission and values
  • Liaising with central teams including programming, operations, ticketing and marketing

Through strong and capable leadership the Venue Director has a direct responsibility for the ongoing success of the venue; driving a process of continuing improvement; embedding a culture that is focussed on results; and ensuring the effective management and motivation of the venue team.
The Venue Director reports to the Regional Director and has wide-ranging relationships with others across Trafalgar Entertainment.

Job Requirements

A motivated, engaging, and dynamic leader you'll have experience of leading teams to success in a live- theatre, venue or entertainment setting. Commercially savvy, resilient, and entrepreneurial with wide knowledge of the sector (plus a passion for the business) - you'll be energetic, proactive, results-focussed and creative in your approach.


With an innate ability to work smartly to achieve your goals; you'll also be adept at supporting the development of others through management of performance, appraisal and training. And you'll be excellent at forming positive working relationships - whether external contacts, producers and promoters; colleagues elsewhere in the company or members of the senior team.

Job Responsibilities

  • Budget planning, forecasting, development of venue strategies and implementation of groupwide strategies to ensure business growth - maximising profitability of all areas of the venue operation.
  • Achievement of income, expenditure and profit targets for all aspects of the business; and achievement of attendance targets and customer service targets in particular.
  • Ensure adherence to company best-practice across the venue including in respect of recruitment and retention processes, general administration, financial control and compliance matters.
  • Alongside the wider team, securing and delivering hire events as appropriate to the venue; and including businesses and corporations, organisations, and individuals, to maximise the potential of all spaces and to meet agreed budget targets.

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