Wycombe Swan High Wycombe

The Wycombe Swan in High Wycombe is one of Buckinghamshire's leading live entertainment venues with a wide array of top-quality musicals, drama, comedy, dance, family shows, one-night events, and pantomime.
Old Town Hall in Wycombe is a smart, distinctive, multi-use space with staging and seating and its own fully licensed bar. Perfect for conferences or parties.

ABOUT THIS ROLE

The General Manager will have overall responsibility for ensuring the highest standards for all Guest Experience and hospitality activities, including bespoke dining events and private functions. Managing, motivating, and developing the staff within the theatre is crucial to the role, ensuring clarity of direction and delivery of business priorities, through the implementation of the business’ hospitality strategy, developed in collaboration with the Theatre Director and Senior Management Team.

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This Job Description is not an exhaustive description of your duties. The postholder will be required to adopt a flexible approach to their role and responsibilities. From time to time, they may be required to undertake such alternative or additional duties as may be commensurate with their skills, experience, and capabilities.

ABOUT YOU

We are looking for individuals that can work as part of a team and individually to achieve and deliver Our Values: Creativity, Collaboration, Excellence, and Respect.

A self-motivated individual with a genuine passion for delivering an exceptional hospitality offer and first-class experience. To achieve this, you will inspire and lead a team to meet and exceed budgeted targets, with customer care at the heart of your departments work.

The candidate must be adaptable and forward-thinking, with creative flair and meticulous attention to detail with experience in a senior level manager position.

A proven and robust hospitality knowledge, including strategic planning, food and beverage management, hospitality event delivery, the development of quality customer care strategies and pricing strategies are imperative to the role.

YOUR EXPERIENCE

• Significant senior management experience within a theatre, live entertainment, hospitality, or visitor attraction environment
• Proven track record of leading, motivating, and developing large customer-facing teams, including casual and contracted staff
• Strong commercial and financial management experience, including budgeting, forecasting, cost control, and delivering against KPIs
• Proven ability to monitor and challenge food quality, service standards, menu execution, pricing, and presentation
• Experience of driving secondary spend, sales growth, and spend-per-head
• Experience reviewing stock control, wastage, portion control, and cost management
• Excellent people management skills, including recruitment, training, performance management, and succession planning
• Strong operational leadership with the ability to manage busy, high-pressure live environments
• Thorough knowledge of Health & Safety, food hygiene, licensing, and compliance requirements
• Highly organised, resilient, and adaptable, with excellent attention to detail

DESIRABLE

• Proven experience managing third‑party or contract catering/kitchen partners within a theatre, hospitality, or live events environment
• Familiarity with zonal till systems, stock management software, and hospitality reporting tools
• Experience of developing and delivering hospitality and events marketing plans in collaboration with marketing teams
• Understanding of sustainability initiatives within venue operations and hospitality settings
• Experience supporting accessibility, inclusion, and equality initiatives in customer-facing environments
• Knowledge of safeguarding principles and experience acting as, or supporting, a Safeguarding Officer

about trafalgar entertainment 

Co-founded by Sir Howard Panter and Dame Rosemary Squire in 2017, Trafalgar Entertainment is a premium international live entertainment business focused on new productions, venue ownership, Performing Arts education, theatre ticketing, the distribution of live-streaming innovative content and the provision of great theatres where people can come together to share in the experience of live entertainment. TE is home to Trafalgar Theatres, The Chiswick Cinema, Trafalgar Theatre Productions, Trafalgar Releasing, Trafalgar Tickets, Stagecoach Performing Arts, Drama Kids/Helen O’Grady Drama Academy, ticketing company London Theatre Direct, Stagedoor, Jonathan Church Theatre Productions, and Imagine Theatre.

Trafalgar Theatres is the venue-operating division of Trafalgar Entertainment (TE). We currently operate 21 venues; including the Trafalgar Theatre in London’s West End and the Theatre Royal in Sydney. We’re growing fast, we’re confident in what we do, and we’re ambitious about the future. There’s never been a better time to get onboard.

We are passionate about entertainment, audiences, and the live experience and we value Creativity, Collaboration, Excellence and Respect.

For You

⭐Discounted theatre tickets

⭐Training and development plans

⭐Hundreds of savings across retailers with TE&ME 

⭐Flexible hours

⭐Access to mental health resources

⭐And much more...

Eligibility criteria applies

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