Post Title: Area Manager

Geographical Location: Bournemouth and surrounding area

Salary: Up to £55,000 per annum, dependant on experience

Hours: 37 hours per week

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing date for receipt of applications: 17 May 2026

The role:

BH Live is recruiting for an experienced Area Manager, Multi-Site Manager or Cluster Manager to work across our BH Live Active sites covering Bournemouth and Corfe Mullen. We operate leisure centres across the BCP (Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole) conurbation and into East Dorset.

You will lead our General Managers and Centre Managers for our flagship leisure centre, Littledown, along with Pelhams, Queens Park, Sir David English Centre, Stokewood and Corfe Mullen.

Please click here to view our BH Live Active Leisure Centres.

Our Leisure Centres are pivotal in providing activities that support sporting excellence, encourage grassroots participation, and inspire community health and wellbeing through regular physical activity.

You will:

Drive the commercial performance of the BCP leisure contract and sites, ensuring financial income, payroll and expenditure targets are met.
You will demonstrate the vision to create effective business and service delivery plans, tracking success and progress against targets, as well as paving the way for future growth
To lead, manage and motivate Leisure Centre Managers in delivering high operational standards and financial performance, with a strong focus on colleague training, colleague engagement and customer focus.
Create a strong performance culture across all BCP leisure centres, ensuring BH Live strategic objectives are clearly communicated, and outcomes are achieved.
Drive the commercial performance of all the leisure centres ensuring budgets are achieved.

To be successful you will need:

Experience of working within a multifaceted, multi leisure operation.
Experience of leading, managing and motivating high performing teams.
Strong operational focus to translate strategy to deliverables.
Strong commercial approach including operational financial management within the sport and leisure industry.

Please click here to view the full job description.

We offer:

Onsite parking
Training and development opportunities
BH Live Active - Gym membership
Health cash plan
Employee Assistance programme
Company pension matched up to 6% contributions
Colleague discount on food and drink
Colleague recognition
Birthday / Celebratory day off
Loyalty Rewards

About BH Live:

We are one of the UK’s leading leisure and event venue operators – a registered charity and social enterprise.

Our geographical reach spans across multiple venues, leisure centres and attractions across Portsmouth, Southampton, Croydon and the BCP region with millions of visits per year.

Our organisational and charitable purpose is to generate:

• More participation – through the provision of leisure facilities to encourage active communities, improved health, and wellbeing

• Higher audiences – through the provision of a diverse range of cultural and artistic events that appeal to a wide audience

• Greater economic and social benefit – through hosting major conferences, exhibitions, and events for the benefit of the local, regional, and international economies and people

We are making a positive difference across the communities we serve.

Our organisation is changing lives – placing us at the heart of the UK’s growing social economy. We host hundreds of events a year; sell more than half a million cultural, and entertainment tickets; clock up millions of leisure centre visits, and welcome thousands of conference and exhibition delegates. As well as promoting community health and wellbeing, this generates millions of pounds in economic benefit for the local economy through business and cultural tourism.

As a social enterprise, we don’t pay dividends to shareholders. Every pound we make is used to run our business and generate a surplus to reinvest and enhance our centres and facilities for public benefit.

We’re BH Live, and we make things happen.

To apply:

All applications are to be made via the BH Live Careers site: careers.bhlive.org.uk

BH Live reserves the right to close the vacancy early should sufficient applications be received. We therefore highly recommend that you submit your application as soon as possible.