Commercial Manager
Malvern College
Malvern, Worcestershire
- Expired
- Salary:
- circa £50,000
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 3 June 2019
Job overview
Through its two trading subsidiaries, Malvern College operates a wide range of commercial activities in support of the College. These include a weddings and events business, trading respectively as Malvern College Weddings and Malvern College Events, a thriving health club, operating as Malvern Active, a summer school business which includes both English language courses and the College’s own music course, the National Schools Symphony Orchestra, and an educational guardianship agency, College Guardians. These activities, along with a number of incidental commercial enterprises, constitute the College’s “domestic” commercial income stream. Further to this, the College operates, through local partners, a growing network of international schools in Asia and the Middle East.
The College now wishes to appoint a Commercial Manager to support the continued growth and development of its domestic commercial activities to enable the Director of International Schools to focus more fully on growing the College’s international schools portfolio.
Reporting to the Director of International Schools, this position will play a critical role in maximising income generation, in particular through overseeing the management and development of the full range of the College’s campus-based commercial activities. It is envisaged that College Guardians will not initially be part of the Commercial Manager’s brief, but this will be reviewed once the successful applicant has taken up post. Experience setting up and/or managing children’s holiday courses would be an advantage as this is an area of the commercial portfolio the College would like to focus on in particular.
Main Duties, Activities and Responsibilities
• Assist the Director of International Schools in identifying key business development opportunities, and take lead responsibility for developing these
• Oversee the work of the Events and Sports Complex teams, through the Events Manager and Sports Complex Operations Manager respectively
• Oversee the work of the Commercial Marketing Manager and her work with all commercial stakeholders
• Take lead responsibility for the ongoing development of Malvern College Summer School
• Oversee the ongoing development of the National Schools Symphony Orchestra (in liaison with the Director of International Schools)
• Oversee the provision of school uniform through the commercial arrangements negotiated with the College’s retail provider, in liaison with the Deputy Head Pastoral and The Downs Malvern
• Manage the College’s relationships with Worcestershire County Cricket Club and the Worcester Warriors, in liaison with relevant stakeholders including the College’s marketing team
• Oversee commercial activity at The Downs Malvern, the College’s associated preparatory school, through the Events team, who are primarily responsible for the delivery of commercial activity at the school
• Oversee the recruitment of all seasonal staff required to operate summer courses and events
• Assist the Director of International Schools in preparing annual budgets and monitoring performance of business sectors against budget
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About Malvern College
Malvern College is a leading independent school for girls and boys aged 13 to 18. Our focus is on encouraging academic excellence, personal growth and all round achievement in our pupils and providing outstanding pastoral care through the impressive House system. It is a vibrant hub of activity where pupils participate in an enormous range of co-curricular activities that support and inform their individual academic programmes.
The school is proud of its high academic standards and its pastoral care. There is a broad curriculum which is intended to give all pupils breadth and depth in a range of disciplines. We have offered the International Baccalaureate as an alternative to A levels since 1992 and approximately 50% of our Sixth Form choose each course of study. Results are excellent and pupils consistently secure places at Russell Group universities, including Oxford and Cambridge and an increasing number of pupils go to Ivy League or top universities in the US and Canada. Malvern College is a SAT centre.
There are 650 pupils at Malvern College, around 200 at The Downs Malvern, our affiliated prep school. We are a traditional full boarding school with 77% of our pupils boarding and weekends are busy with a full programme of activities. We seek to prepare those who study at Malvern for a world that is fast-changing, and our House system engenders a sense of community and collective purpose. Pupils eat in their Houses creating the family feel for which Malvern is well-known.
Situated on the slopes of the Malvern Hills and close to the centre of Great Malvern, the beautiful 250-acre main College campus commands striking views across the Severn Plain towards the Cotswolds.
The excellent facilities include an Arts Centre, a Music School, a newly redeveloped Theatre, two tournament quality Rackets Courts, a Library, extensive sports grounds, two all-weather pitches and a Technology Centre. A newly refurbished Science Centre was officially opened in 2015 which, alongside state-of-the-art laboratories and equipment, also has a new lecture theatre. Our other facilities include a fantastic sports complex which has a twenty-five metre pool, an eight-court sports hall, squash courts, gym, dance studio, climbing wall and rifle range. In addition, a hospitality suite allows the College to host a variety of functions throughout the year.
The Malvern brand is globally strong: we have sister schools in Qingdao, Chengdu, New Cairo, Hong Kong, and Tokyo.
Our school community is vibrant and staff are committed and enthusiastic; all applicants are encouraged to view our website www.malverncollege.org.uk
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