Head of Sales and Marketing

Salary: £46,265 per annum (an additional x 0.5 of your hourly rate will be paid if you are required to work on a Sunday or Bank Holiday)

Location: Ipswich, Suffolk, UK – based at the New Wolsey Theatre. Ideally you will live within 30 minutes’ travel to Ipswich and a package to support relocation is available.

Contract: Full-Time, Permanent

Hours: 40 hours per week, typically Monday to Friday

Applications close: 9am, Monday 10th March 2025

 

About us

The New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich is a 400 seat regional theatre with a national reputation for the quality, range and reach of its work as well as embracing cultural diversity in the widest sense.

The theatre is central to the creative life of Suffolk and seeks to expand the horizons of audiences and artists by presenting a programme designed to entertain, enrich and challenge.

 

About the role

We’re seeking a visionary Head of Sales & Marketing to lead our marketing, sales, audience development, PR, and corporate relationships teams. This pivotal role will focus on maximising revenue while amplifying our theatre’s values, mission, and cultural impact both locally and nationally.

Reporting to the Chief Executive/ Artistic Director, as Head of Sales & Marketing, you’ll develop and implement innovative strategies to grow our audience, foster community engagement, and enhance our profile in the cultural landscape. You’ll also nurture and inspire a talented team, within an award-winning arts organisation, valued locally, regionally, and nationally, using motivational and development skills to bring out the best in each individual, through collaboration, creativity, and excellence.

We’re looking for a strategic thinker with a proven track record in marketing leadership, exceptional communication skills, and a passion for the arts.

If you’re ready to inspire and drive our theatre’s success, we’d love to hear from you!

This is a full-time, permanent role, working 40 hours per week, typically Monday- Friday.

While experience in the theatre sector is not essential, previous experience in a senior marketing role is required.

For more information about this role please download the recruitment pack below.

We’d love applications from people of all backgrounds, especially from Black, Asian and ethnically diverse backgrounds, those who identify as deaf and disabled people, neurodivergent people, members of the LGBTQIA+ community and those from lower socio-economic backgrounds. We are up for exploring support and development needs and will make reasonable adjustments to enable applicants to participate in the selection process, and for the successful applicant to carry out their role.

If you need us to make any adjustments to allow you to fully participate, would like an informal and confidential discussion about the position, or if you would like the candidate pack in different accessible formats please contact Lucy Parker lparker@wolseytheatre.co.uk

The deadline for applications is 9am, Monday 10th March 2025.

Interviews will be held at the theatre on Monday 17th March 2025.

We will reimburse reasonable travel expenses for candidates to attend an interview.

 

How to apply:

  1. Complete an application form (below)
  2. Complete our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Monitoring Form

Please download the Recruitment Pack (below) for further details including the Job Description and Person Specification.

Click here to download the Head of Sales & Marketing recruitment pack.

Click here to download the New Wolsey Theatre application form.

If you would rather have printed copies of the application form or recruitment pack, please get in touch.

 

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