Business Development Manager

Pension scheme

Flexible working

Discounts & tickets

Salary £43,000 - £45,000

Location Cromwell Road, London

This is a Fixed Term Contract, Full Time vacancy that will close in 14 days at 23:59 BST.

The Role

We're looking for a full time, experienced and enthusiastic Commercial Events Business Development Manager for a fixed term, 3 year contract to join our busy income-generating events team.
This role focuses predominantly on growing the events business across our new portfolio: V&A East Storehouse, V&A East Museum, while also driving new business for Young V&A and V&A South Kensington. This is a rare opportunity to build a new commercial events audience for our new venues, while maximising yield across the wider group. The Commercial Events team sits within the Development department and run over 160 events a year, bringing in unrestricted income of over £2.2 million a year. You will use your experience to research new markets and identify new clients for the V&A’s burgeoning events portfolio, enjoying proactive sales pitches and target orientated work.

The V&A

The V&A is the world’s leading museum of art and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects, books and archives that span over 5,000 years of human creativity. The museum holds many of the UK's national collections and houses some of the greatest resources for the study of architecture, furniture, fashion, textiles, photography, sculpture, painting, jewellery, glass, ceramics, book arts, Asian art and design, theatre and performance.

Our mission is to be recognised as the world's leading museum of art, design and performance, and to enrich people's lives by promoting research, knowledge and enjoyment of the designed world to the widest possible audience. We strive to make the V&A matter to more people and in that context we work to the following six strategic objectives:

• To create a world class visitor and learning experience across all V&A sites and collections.
• Focus and deepen the relevance of our collections to the UK creative and knowledge economy.
• Expand the V&A's international reach, reputation and impact.
• To operate with financial and organisational initiative and efficiency.
• Showcase the best of digital design and deliver an outstanding digital experience.
• Diversify and increase private and commercial funding sources.

The Benefits

Benefits

Generous pension scheme

29 days plus bank holidays

Flexible working​

Tickets to V&A exhibitions

Subsidised staff canteen

25% discount in V&A shops

Give as you earn scheme

Bicycle loan

ED&I at The V&A

At the V&A, we are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) for all and strive to go above and beyond public duty placed upon us by the Equality Act 2010. As such, we are delighted to share that we are a Disability Confident Employer Level 2. The V&A makes the following commitments to all applications:

• The Disability Confident Employer scheme offers guaranteed interviews – Interviewing applicants with a disability who successfully evidence the essential criteria on a person specification and consider them on their abilities;
• Providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process.
• Making reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process so disabled job applicants have the best opportunity to demonstrate that they can do the job.
• Supporting employees and adjustments during employment.

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