Operations Manager

Woods & Co Recruitment are inviting applications for an Operations Venue Manager to join one of Melbourne’s most diverse event spaces. This opportunity is a chance to be a part of history in this authentically Melbourne Venue. This position requires someone with great energy, a formidable team leader with exceptional staff management skills, highly organised and wanting to hit the ground running. 
  
If you're looking to level up your career in events and you have prior experience in running large scale events or then this is the opportunity for you!
   
What's in it for you?

• Melbourne location
• $90k - $95k + Super + Bonus 
• Amazing company culture
• Genuine Career Progression
• Stamp your name on some of Melbourne biggest, exclusive events

What do you do?

• Manage and oversee all venue operations
• Manage large venue and infrastructure projects; Design, quoiting, project management and execution.
• Management and upkeep of operations department including the set-up and pack down of events
• Work closely with the sales and event departments to ensure smooth delivery
• Management of general site upkeep, including maintenance and servicing
• Financial reporting
• Book and manage venue suppliers
• Staffing, rostering, and adhering to labor costs
• Stakeholder management including clients, customers, suppliers and partners
• Implement and improve process systems
• Implement SOP’s surrounding costs and efficiency
• Manage your team including the Venue Manager, Operations Supervisor, Bar manager, Operations Assistant and the FOH teams.

What do you need?

• Proficiency with CRM management systems
• A minimum of 6 years in a similar role, with large scale event management required
• Forklift licence
• A drive to build and continue to network
• Experience overseeing site plans, AV productions, catering, event bump in and out, expo builds, traffic management and OHD procedures, staff briefing and basic logistics.
• Strong verbal and written skills 
• Highly personable, sense of humour and energetic attitude 
• Passionate and self-motivated
• Experience with Microsoft Office and G Suite
• Attention to detail, initiative & quick thinking

If you’re as excited by this opportunity as we are, then run, don’t walk and hit the APPLY NOW button!
    
Woods & Co Recruitment is committed to creating a positively diverse and inclusive workforce which values all backgrounds and experiences. We do not discriminate and encourage applications (no matter age or status) from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally and/or a linguistically diverse background, all members and genders of the LGBTQI community and people with disability.
  
Contact Shea or Aydin to discuss in further detail!
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