Sales and Commercial Team Assistant - North London

Sales and Commercial Team Assistant - North London

ABOUT ALEXANDRA PARK AND PALACE

Alexandra Park and Palace is a major event, heritage and cultural destination in north London. It is a rare survivor of the great Victorian age of entrepreneurship, exhibition, and spectacle and was the birthplace of BBC Television in 1936.

We have some amazing events coming up over the next few months including comedy shows with Nish Kumar, Iain Stirling and Tommy Tiernan, music from Black Midi, Yussef Dayes and Saint Etienne, leading into a run of A Christmas Carol- A Ghost Story with Mark Gatiss over the festive period.

In return for your hard work, we offer:

• Generous annual leave allowance – 28 days (pro rata for part time employees)
• Additional 4 privilege days usually set around Christmas and New Year
• Opportunity to enter a ballot for free event tickets
• Discounts across our on-site catering units
• Access to an employee assistance programme
• Training and development opportunities including access to e-learning
• Cycle to work scheme
• Eye care vouchers

ROLE DESCRIPTION

The Sales and Commercial Team Assistant is a multi-disciplined role perfect for a team player with excellent organisation skills. The post holder will provide administrative support across a number of commercial teams acting as the first point of contact managing and directing calls and enquiries. This role is also responsible for coordinating small hires from sales enquiry through to contract and arranging site visit where necessary. Areas of Client responsibility may include small commercial film shoots, unit bases, small events, and Park events such as fun runs.

Experience of delivering excellent customer service and coordinating small events is essential and experience of using a CRM system or working in a sales environment or a multi-purpose venue is desirable.

The salary is £25,391 per annum.

This is a full time, permanent role.

HOW TO APPLY

To apply for the role of Sales and Commercial Team Assistant please send your CV and a Cover Letter outlining how you meet the requirements of the role by clicking 'Apply'

Please also complete and return an Equalities Monitoring Form (attached) with your application.

The information remains confidential but is essential to track progress against our EDI Action Plan and understand what more we can do to be more representative of our local and wider communities.

Please note that due to the volume of applications we are unable to provide feedback to those not shortlisted for interview.

OUR COMMITMENT TO EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY

Alexandra Palace values diversity, our strength comes from combining what we have in common, our shared purpose and values, with what makes each of us different. We believe that people from different backgrounds bring fresh ideas, thinking and approaches and can help us to be more effective.

Alexandra Palace is committed to the fair treatment of all our staff. We are committed to giving equal access to recruitment and selection, promotion and career development, training, pay and benefits. Alexandra Palace is proud to hold the Level 1 Disability Confident Employer Standard, demonstrating our commitment to recruiting and retaining disabled people and people with health conditions for their skills and talent, and providing opportunities to help them achieve their potential.

We will provide reasonable support to disabled applicants throughout the recruitment process. If you feel that you need any additional support or reasonable adjustments to take part in the interview process, please contact the HR team.