Commercial Director NEW

Pickering, Yorkshire
KD Recruitment

Are you a commercially driven leader with the ambition to shape a bold future for one of North Yorkshire s best-loved charitable organisations? Do you have a passion for people, experience of marketing and engagement strategies, along with the drive to really make a difference within the local community?

We re working exclusively with a renowned organisation in the region s tourism and cultural sector as they recruit a Commercial Director to drive growth, innovation, and long-term financial sustainability.

This newly created role is perfect for someone who combines strategic vision with hands-on leadership and who thrives in customer-led, mission-driven environments.

This is a purpose-led charitable organisation delivering wide-reaching impact through a mix of heritage, tourism, and public service. With a strong brand and a loyal customer base, they re entering a new chapter of commercial transformation, and they need a dynamic Commercial Director to turn opportunity into results.

With a renewed focus on service excellence, the organisation is investing in this key leadership role to shape and deliver a joined-up approach across a number of departments, including sales, marketing, engagement, hospitality, and retail.

What the job involves

As Commercial Director, you ll take ownership of the organisation s full commercial strategy, aligning revenue generation with customer value, brand integrity, and long-term impact.

• Creating a strong commercial strategy in alignment with the organisations key objectives.
• Researching and developing new revenue streams, partnerships, and other potential opportunities to enhance the brand and footfall.
• Lead by example with a strategic approach to enhance the customer experience, pricing, retail, and events.

• Maximising income streams from a number of departments and locations, as well as increasing specialist events, sponsorship opportunities, and licensing.
• Create and manage the pricing strategy to look at a more dynamic sales optimisation.

• Use market intelligence and customer data to support your future ideas.
• Create and build a marketing and digital strategy in collaboration with the brand and communications.

• Lead, coach and develop multi-functional teams with a focus on high performance.
• Monitor performance, KPIs, and ROI, reporting at senior and board level.

• Managing relationships with partners, sponsors, suppliers, and stakeholders.

Skills required

• We are looking for someone who has worked in a similar senior commercial leadership role from within the tourism, transport, heritage, retail, hospitality, charity, not for profit or events sectors
• Someone who has a strong track record of growing income and customer engagement.
• Strong commercial acumen, strategic thinking, and data-driven decision-making.
• People management experience
• Excellent communication with creativity and negotiation skills to match.
• An understanding of Charity, not-for-profit or hybrid revenue streams would be beneficial

Other information

• Based in North Yorkshire with flexible working available.
• Full-time working.
• Being able to add real value to an organisation and see the impact and growth you can make a difference with.
• A supportive, friendly and hands on senior leadership team to work and collaborate with.

If you re looking for a senior role that blends strategy, commercial leadership, and meaningful impact, we d love to hear from you.

This vacancy is being advertised through KD Recruitment Limited who are operating as an Employment Agency.

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