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Venue Manager
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2 September 2026 (2 days ago)
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30 November 2026
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Job Summary
Role: Venue Manager
Location: Medway
Hours: Full-time - 35 hours per week - Mon-Fri 9 am-5 pm (occasional weekends and nights)
Salary: 32000 per annum
Contract: 3-Month Temp-Perm (Potential for Perm)
Our client is seeking an experienced and proactive Venue Manager to oversee the day-to-day operation of a busy licensed venue including bar operations food events and evening trade. The successful candidate will take responsibility for ensuring the venue operates safely efficiently and to a consistently high standard whilst managing and supporting the venue team.
This is a hands-on comprehensive management position suited to someone with previous experience within a licensed hospitality events or similar environment who is confident managing people HR finance operations stock and compliance.
Responsibilities
- Oversee the daily operation of the venue
- Lead support and develop the venue team including supervisors team leaders and operational staff.
- Manage staff rotas attendance hours and day-to-day staffing requirements
- Take operational responsibility for events working closely with organisers clients and internal teams to ensure successful delivery.
- Coordinate venue opening and closing procedures ensuring all relevant security safety and operational checks are completed.
- Manage bar operations including stock levels ordering stock control cellar management and minimising waste.
- Monitor sales costs margins and overall financial performance contributing to budgets and commercial targets.
- Ensure the venue operates in accordance with licensing requirements health and safety legislation and internal policies and procedures.
- Develop and maintain effective working relationships with suppliers contractors security providers and other external partners.
- Support the recruitment induction training performance management and development of venue staff.
- Maintain high standards of venue equipment fixtures fittings and operational areas liaising with facilities teams where repairs or maintenance are required.
- Develop and implement appropriate risk assessments emergency procedures and safety measures for venue operations and events.
- Assist with the development and delivery of an ongoing programme of entertainment and events.
- Maintain accurate operational financial incident stock and performance records providing regular reports to senior management.
- Provide hands-on support during busy periods and events assisting the wider venue team where required.
Requirements
- Previous management experience within a licensed trade hospitality events or similar environment.
- Flexible approach to working hours with occasional evenings nights and weekends.
- Willingness to carry out ad hoc work across other parts of the business.
- Proven experience managing and developing a team.
- Good knowledge of stock control cash handling financial procedures and cost management.
- Understanding of licensing requirements and health and safety within a venue environment.
- A proactive hands-on approach with the ability to lead by example.
- Personal Licence holder or willingness to obtain one.
- First Aid qualification or willingness to undertake training.
Benefits
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
- Additional privilege leave over the Christmas and New Year period.
- Contributory pension scheme.
- Parking available.
- Potential for the temporary position to become permanent.
At KHR we take care to ensure that you are represented as well as possible so it is worth checking your CV for layout spelling and grammar as well as making sure it is up to date before you submit. If you feel you need to highlight particular qualifications skills or relevant experience with regard to a specific role then please add a cover letter or a preface page. This does not need to be formatted in the same addition if your CV is heavy with graphics etc please could you also submit a clean copy in Word. Thank you.
Knowledge House Resourcing Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy. KHR - Recruitment Specialists is a trading name of Knowledge House Resourcing Ltd. Keep in touch with us online for job alerts industry updates and market...
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Location: Medway
Hours: Full-time - 35 hours per week - Mon-Fri 9 am-5 pm (occasional weekends and nights)
Salary: 32000 per annum
Contract: 3-Month Temp-Perm (Potential for Perm)
Our client is seeking an experienced and proactive Venue Manager to oversee the day-to-day operation of a busy licensed venue including bar operations food events and evening trade. The successful candidate will take responsibility for ensuring the venue operates safely efficiently and to a consistently high standard whilst managing and supporting the venue team.
This is a hands-on comprehensive management position suited to someone with previous experience within a licensed hospitality events or similar environment who is confident managing people HR finance operations stock and compliance.
Responsibilities
- Oversee the daily operation of the venue
- Lead support and develop the venue team including supervisors team leaders and operational staff.
- Manage staff rotas attendance hours and day-to-day staffing requirements
- Take operational responsibility for events working closely with organisers clients and internal teams to ensure successful delivery.
- Coordinate venue opening and closing procedures ensuring all relevant security safety and operational checks are completed.
- Manage bar operations including stock levels ordering stock control cellar management and minimising waste.
- Monitor sales costs margins and overall financial performance contributing to budgets and commercial targets.
- Ensure the venue operates in accordance with licensing requirements health and safety legislation and internal policies and procedures.
- Develop and maintain effective working relationships with suppliers contractors security providers and other external partners.
- Support the recruitment induction training performance management and development of venue staff.
- Maintain high standards of venue equipment fixtures fittings and operational areas liaising with facilities teams where repairs or maintenance are required.
- Develop and implement appropriate risk assessments emergency procedures and safety measures for venue operations and events.
- Assist with the development and delivery of an ongoing programme of entertainment and events.
- Maintain accurate operational financial incident stock and performance records providing regular reports to senior management.
- Provide hands-on support during busy periods and events assisting the wider venue team where required.
Requirements
- Previous management experience within a licensed trade hospitality events or similar environment.
- Flexible approach to working hours with occasional evenings nights and weekends.
- Willingness to carry out ad hoc work across other parts of the business.
- Proven experience managing and developing a team.
- Good knowledge of stock control cash handling financial procedures and cost management.
- Understanding of licensing requirements and health and safety within a venue environment.
- A proactive hands-on approach with the ability to lead by example.
- Personal Licence holder or willingness to obtain one.
- First Aid qualification or willingness to undertake training.
Benefits
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
- Additional privilege leave over the Christmas and New Year period.
- Contributory pension scheme.
- Parking available.
- Potential for the temporary position to become permanent.
At KHR we take care to ensure that you are represented as well as possible so it is worth checking your CV for layout spelling and grammar as well as making sure it is up to date before you submit. If you feel you need to highlight particular qualifications skills or relevant experience with regard to a specific role then please add a cover letter or a preface page. This does not need to be formatted in the same addition if your CV is heavy with graphics etc please could you also submit a clean copy in Word. Thank you.
Knowledge House Resourcing Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy. KHR - Recruitment Specialists is a trading name of Knowledge House Resourcing Ltd. Keep in touch with us online for job alerts industry updates and market...
Required Skills:
Venue Manager nightclub manager wedding manager events
Key Skills
- Venue Manager
- nightclub manager
- wedding manager
- events
About Company
KHR - Recruitment Specialists
8 employees
KHR is an award-winning, independent, recruitment consultancy, established in 1998. Based in Kent, our team of professional, friendly recruiters offers a ‘belt and braces’ solution to your recruitment needs by using search and selection recruitment techniques hand in hand ... View more
