General Manager – Multi-Activity Sports & Fitness Facility

Sandwell - West Midlands

c£42,000 plus benefits

We are recruiting for a dynamic and commercially driven General Manager to lead a large, multi-activity sports and fitness facility in Sandwell. This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious leisure professional to take full operational and commercial responsibility for a diverse centre offering gym and fitness, padel, tennis, indoor and outdoor sports spaces, and community wellbeing programmes.

As the senior leader on site, you will be accountable for driving financial performance, growing participation, and delivering an exceptional customer experience. You will lead and develop the operational team, ensuring high standards across service delivery, compliance, and health and safety. You will also work closely with senior leadership, contributing to business planning, performance reporting and long-term strategic growth.

A key focus of the role will be maximising commercial opportunities across all activity areas, building strong partnerships within the local community, and embedding the facility as a hub for sport, health and wellbeing.

Key Responsibilities:

• Full operational and commercial management of the facility

• Delivering and monitoring business and unit plans to achieve financial targets

• Leading, motivating and developing a high-performing team

• Driving membership growth and activity participation

• Managing budgets, forecasting and performance reporting

• Ensuring compliance with all health and safety and operational standards

• Building strong relationships with stakeholders and community partners

About You:

• At least 2 years’ successful management experience within leisure, fitness or a related sector

• Proven track record of delivering commercial growth and achieving targets

• Experience managing large teams in a customer-facing environment

• Strong financial acumen and organisational skills

• A visible, hands-on leader with excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities

This role offers the opportunity to shape the success of a flagship sports facility within a growing and ambitious organisation.

Your recruiter for this role is Helen Horton, Account Director at Love Recruitment group, and can be contacted simply by applying for the role below. Helen and Love Recruitment specialise in recruitment for the whole fitness and leisure sector and work on a number of jobs in the fitness and leisure industry. If keen to be considered please ‘Apply Now’