Senior Commercial Manager at Glasgow Life
Working Hours: Full time
Contract: Fixed Term
Salary: £66,165 – £76,627
Location: Glasgow
Closing date: 12/07/2026
About the Role
As a Senior Commercial Operations Manager, you’ll be a part of an established team, reporting to the Head of Commercial and Business Growth. You’ll play an essential role in driving sustainable growth in our retail, catering, and venue hire functions. Your work will make a visible and lasting difference. This could be:
- Forming strategic commercial direction for the critical business units of retail, catering, and venue hire, where customer centricity is a pivotal priority,
- Leading best in class operational standards, objectives, and measurement.
- Bringing an attitude that seeks to constantly improve how the organisation operates commercially.
- Inspiring, leading, and coaching colleagues to deliver shared objectives.
- Aligning commercial priorities with cross functional teams within finance, supply chain, marketing, procurement, driving cross-functional initiatives to achieve shared goals.
We’re looking for:
- An astute commercial leader who can both define growth strategy and own the actions linked to operational excellence.
- Experience in leading dynamic and customer orientated teams from sectors such as retail, hospitality, or sales.
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