Tourism, Leisure and Events Consultant

3 weeks ago

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom Savills Full time

**Team Information**

A small but growing UK-wide team made up of one Director, one Associate Director, one Associate and a part-time administrator who advise landowners, charities, institutional clients, public sector bodies and leisure businesses on establishing and developingrural diversification projects

**Key Responsibilities**

An opportunity has arisen to help develop a niche but growing consultancy service within Savills at a time when the longer term outlook for rural leisure, tourism and events is particularly exciting. This role compliments an existing experienced but smallteam which covers the whole of the UK.

The Rural, Energy & Projects (REP) division of Savills offer the widest range of property services of any competitor in the UK across residential, rural, commercial, retail, healthcare, hotels, leisure and more. The Tourism, Leisure and Events Consultancyis supported by the almost-limitless knowledge, resources and research within the national and international Savills network, and you will be expected to liaise with your counterparts across the country and to contribute to business development throughoutSavills both within and beyond the rural division.
- To undertake the primary relationship role with a number of rural property owning clients, providing strategic diversification advice and overseeing all aspects of delivery.
- To promote the service through regular mail campaigns, internal regional office visits and presentations, exploiting PR opportunities and attendance at relevant industry and networking events.
- To prepare and deliver presentations for internal meetings, industry seminars and conferences.
- To help identify and target new potential clients, make speculative visits, prepare fee proposals based on their individual requirements, and win instructions where possible.
- To visit clients with and without the Director, assess the commercial opportunities, and help formulate appropriate strategies.
- To carry out market research and competitor analyses as part of the report writing process.
- To produce financial analyses, using MS Excel spreadsheets, as part of the report writing process.
- To produce detailed strategic reports and feasibility studies for approval by the Director.
- To deal with ongoing client queries and issues, both on site and remotely.
- As part of the national team, to ensure tight financial management of the department by monitoring forecast and actual income and expenditure, debtors and recovery of disbursements at both departmental and client levels.
- To represent the firm and the department across the region in a manner consistent with the firm’s ethos, promoting the firm and its various service lines.
- To help promote and deliver the firm’s compliance procedures and standards.
- Encourage good communication between all disciplines within the locality.

**Skills, Knowledge and Experience**

**General**

Essentially the person fulfilling the role will have specialist skills and will work within an area of knowledge and expertise. Communication, the need to enjoy challenging situations and a systematic and perfectionist approach to problems are integral tothe function. The ideal person for this position will be positive, participative, self-confident, friendly, self-starting, competitive, inquisitive, imaginative, factual, consistent and self-disciplined

**Skills and Knowledge**
- Confident with a positive outlook.
- Self-starter, who relishes challenges and strives for the best.
- Well organized and highly motivated with the ability to work unsupervised and under own initiative.
- Able to think logically, strategically and creatively, with the ability to listen and consider what has been said, before making a decision.
- Able to relate well with a broad range of internal and external clients and stakeholders, with confidence and gravitas.
- A strong commercial focus with a keen eye on developing this area of the Savills business.
- An interest in building relationships and generating new business.

**Technical experience**
- To have operational and/or management experience in the tourism, leisure or events sectors.
- Ideally (but not essentially) to have operational and/or management experience in the visitor attraction market.
- Ideally (but not essentially) have experience of strategic marketing and market research.
- Relevant experience in the rural sector with comprehensive technical knowledge.
- Cost management: financial and commercial acumen with strong planning, budgeting and operational reporting skills.
- Clear written English, in the form of strategic reports, business plans, memos, case studies etc.
- Clear verbal communication style
- Highly competent and skilled with Microsoft Office, including Excel and Powerpoint. Training will be provided in respect of internal systems.
- Driving licence essential.

**Type of Assessment for this role**:

- 2 stage process with initial Teams/Zoom interview and then final face to face interview and Presentation
- Personality Profile

**Basis / work pattern**:
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