We are looking for a Head of Operations to lead our operations team, deliver all our events, and hold the standard across every venue, every event and every shift.
Rock & Star · Sheffield · £50,000 plus bonus · Full time
We run three of Sheffield's best-loved venues, The Chimney House, The Mowbray and The Victoria, along with the Clubhouse, our Clubhouse Social coffee shop in Neepsend. They are award-winning, and together they deliver around 700 weddings, celebrations and meetings a year.
WHAT YOU WILL OWN
Venue care, maintenance, compliance, fire and health and safety, so our buildings are looked after as well as our guests are.
The whole operations team: everyone who delivers our events and runs our venues, from events delivery and duty managers to team leads and our casual team, across the venues, the bars and the Clubhouse, along with cleaning, security and maintenance.
Rotas and staffing costs, team management, recruitment, training and supplier relationships.
Our culture. You will live our ROCKSTAR values and drive them through the whole team, so they show up on every shift. ROCKSTAR stands for Respect, Ownership, Care, Kindness, Standards, Teamwork, Attention to detail and doing the Right thing.
Driving improvement with AI and the tools we use in our business, including All Gravy: training built once and reused, checklists and compliance and admin taken off the team so they have more time for guests.
And the standard a guest feels when they walk in, whichever of our buildings they are standing in. You will set it, protect it and make sure it never slips when we are busy.
You will report to our Managing Director and work alongside our Chef Director as an equal. Your performance is measured on a scorecard you will help write, reviewed quarterly.
You will have
WHAT WE OFFER
The role starts in January 2027, and sooner if the right person is available.
Interested in joining us?
It would be great to know a bit more about you.
An intriguing and luxurious environment set within an iconic waterside building dedicated to Meetings and Dining. Split into three rooms and packed full of antiques and original features including the enormous chimney soaring through the floor in The Meeting Room. The Chimney House is a quintessentially British Meeting House, which is an ode to the the City's heritage tempered with ultra modern essentials for creative events. Award winning and recognised as one of 'The World's Most Creative Meeting Venues" it is also the go-to place for opulent dining & feasting for all of life’s celebrations.
A brand new restoration by the award winning studio 93ft on an historic Sheffield building from 1889. The Mowbray is a state of the art venue for conferencing and meetings as well as dining and feasting for weddings and corporate hospitality.
A marvelously anticipated luxury lifestyle venue that hosts 180 seated and comes complete with a first floor roof garden and commercial kitchens.
Funded entirely by the endeavour from The Mowbray and The Chimney House over we have been able to continue our love affair with restoring historic Sheffield buildings.
After an extensive 4 year restoration and renovation - a building from 1884 has been transformed into a premium event space for all - Victoria presents an exhilarating mix of premium dining and drinking events, matched with lifestyle, business, wellness, music and design alongside a dynamic calendar of seven days a week private hire events on top of the award winning weddings at its heart.