Destination Host

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Role Purpose

The purpose of the Destination Host is to create an incredible place for people to visit our client site Cabot Circus Shopping Destination. We expect the Destination Host to have a deep understanding of their occupiers customers and stakeholders and to build meaningful relationships. The Destination Host will work as part of the Occupier and Customer team to create a community environment for everyone working in the shopping centre and embed Cabot Circus in the Bristol community as the place to be.

This role is a job share with parttime hours over the weekend to support the shopping centre across peak opening times.

Key Stakeholders

• Occupiers

• Customers

• Hammerson (Client)

• Destination Team

• JLL

• Local community (charities schools local authority organisations and nonretail competitive businesses)

• Marketing team

• JLL service partners

Core Responsibilities

• Curate an inclusive community within the destination that is inviting and exciting for everyone working and visiting the shopping centre.

• Liaising and working with the security cleaning and maintenance teams to ensure any issues are flagged and follow through to resolution

• To be mobile highly visible and building relationships with the occupier brands and business as well as visitors

• To obtain feedback from the occupiers and visitors for reporting purposes in improving the experience of all stakeholders

• To build and share knowledge between occupiers creating a community atmosphere

• Be the main point of contact and support for occupants of the shopping destination

• Be security conscious; be familiar with the shopping destination security processes and have confidence in raising when things do not look right

• Be reliable flexible honest and a strong advocate for the destination and always ensure you provide a consistent service

• Be accountable in daily interactions with stakeholders and responsibilities with the ability to use initiative and be selfled

• Support in overseeing events on the day including problemsolving welcoming guests

• Communicating with the Occupier and Customer Manager and Marketing team to ensure effective communication for destination events and marketing activity

• Support the Occupier and Customer Manager and Marketing team with identifying event opportunities and generating interest

• Build relationships with local charity and community groups.

• Provide general administrative support to the destination Management team

• Collate data and ensure accuracy while working to deadlines

Focus on People

• Actively and positively engage with colleagues occupiers and visitors to quickly build relationships and create a community feel

• Anticipate the needs of visitors to the destination and follow up to ensure that all expectations are met and where possible exceeded

• Take ownership and responsibility ensuring you are working effectively and developing close relationships and managing your own time

Effective Communication

• Handle all queries efficiently but effectively and supply relevant information as required and appropriate

• Proactively identify and troubleshoot issues before they become a problem

• The Destination Host will collaborate closely with the management team fostering open communication through regular meetings to address challenges and opportunities creating an operating rhythm and routine

• Complete a handover with colleagues and other stakeholders as required when taking time out of the business and between shifts

• Be aware of relevant legislation to include health & safety and be always security conscious

• Create a sense of community and fun with all colleagues

• Building proactive and effective twoway relationships with the occupiers at the Destination

• Own occupier communications working with all departments and clients to ensure effective communication

• Meeting with a range of representatives from each retailer within the scheme from decisionmakers to store managers to gain a confident understanding of their business performance objectives aspirations and needs and identify opportunities to help retailers achieve these

• Collection of turnover and trade information from occupiers

• Oversee occupier customer feedback programmes as appropriate and use the feedback to inform strategy

• Provide reporting on customer and community feedback that can be used to evolve the customer service offer within the destination

• Build proactive and effective twoway relationships with stakeholders within the destination. These stakeholders will include local retailers leisure operators public services (such as police) local authorities schools/ colleges/ universities charities and such like.

Required skills

• A strong communicator and interpersonal skills

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• Coldoutreach experience a plus

• Exceptional organisation time management and prioritisation skills

• Demonstrate integrity dependability responsibility accountability selfawareness work ethic and empathy

• A real specialist in retail or hospitality having a passion and understanding of a commercial or retail space.

• Ideally have an understanding of wellbeing programmes

• Experience in an event environment would be beneficial

• A passion for customer experience

• Project management and business operations experience preferable

• Innovative in thinking and take the initiative finding new ways of working

• Work efficiently and ability to learn new systems and software

• Be ambitious and commercially minded

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