Salary: £35,000
Location: A Central London location at one of our office spaces.
Working hours: 8:30 am - 17:30 pm
Work.Life is a flex workspace provider for businesses who care about people.
We believe that happy teams deliver measurable benefits for businesses. That's why everything we do, from workspace design to delivering a best-in-class personal service, is designed to create happy working environments. We have shared workspaces across London, Reading and Manchester; with 7,000+ members; and an amazing team of nearly 70 who share our ambition to redefine the workspace experience for the better.
Your role: This is a unique opportunity, as we are looking for a talented and passionate manager who are eager to take the reins and drive a business as if it were their own. Must be a people-person, fun-loving, organised, insanely efficient, and someone who doesn't mind getting their hands dirty if necessary Your role is to be the glue to keep our community together and to help make Work.Life aplace where our members love to work, giving them everything they need to run their businesses smoothly. We trust our managers to run their spaces like their own business, which means driving sales and keeping the business profitable. Something you can handle; we want to hear from you.
Your day-to-day: Sales & Revenue:
* Conduct high-impact tours in the absence of the Sales Manager
* Drive high retention, through building strong relationships, commercial acumen and leading on renewal conversations.
* Identifying and mitigating any upcoming risk or challenges in your location whilst collaborating with our support functions.
* Identify and grow ancillary revenue streams - meeting rooms, events, short-term bookings, and customisations to maximise every opportunity within the space.
* Manage billing, and invoicing processes, partnering with central teams to ensure timely and precise administration.
Member Experience & Operations:
* Be the cultural heartbeat of the space - owning onboarding, day-to-day engagement, and operational standards to deliver a best-in-class member experience.
* Ensure facilities, services, and operations are seamless - collaborating with central support teams to maintain exceptional standards and quickly resolve issues.
* Maintain accurate member records and CRM data to ensure commercial and service visibility and accurate reporting.
* Ensure all space controllable costs are carefully managed and delivered in line with budget - balancing cost control with service excellence.
* Manage space overheads and local budgets, balancing cost control with service excellence.
* Champion process consistency, ensuring SOPs are followed to deliver predictable, high-quality service.
Team Leadership & Development:
* Lead, support, and develop a motivated on-site team - ensuring performance, service delivery, and team culture are consistently high.
* Deliver structured coaching and regular 1:1s to ensure individual growth and team engagement.
* Foster a high-performance culture aligned with Work.Life's values—using feedback, training, and recognition to help every team member thrive.
Community Engagement:
* Build a connected, supportive member community through events, personal interactions, and creative initiatives.
* Actively listen to members—gathering insight, feedback, and opportunities for continual improvement through multiple avenues such as NPS surveys and quarterly Team Leader Check In's.
* Be a local ambassador for Work.Life, building relationships in the neighbourhood and enhancing brand visibility.
* Design and deliver community-led events, supporting member engagement and local partnerships.
About you:
* Proven track record in leading operations within a service-driven, customer-facing environment such as hospitality, coworking, or retail — balancing commercial delivery with genuine care for people.
Strong leadership experience, with the ability to coach, motivate, and develop a team to achieve high performance and consistent service standards.
* Demonstrated commercial acumen — confident managing renewals, retention strategies, and local revenue opportunities including events, meeting rooms, and ancillary sales.
* Skilled in managing budgets, billing, and financial reporting, ensuring cost control without compromising member experience.
* Experienced in using CRM and operational systems to maintain data accuracy, enable reporting, and support decision-making.
* Adept at building and maintaining relationships with members, local partners, and internal teams, representing both the brand and the culture of the space.
* Organised, proactive, and solution-focused, comfortable managing multiple priorities in a fast-moving operational setting.
* Passionate about community, with a natural ability to create environments where people feel connected, supported, and proud to belong.
It's Personal:
* Human connection is at the heart of what we do and why we do it. Everybody comes with their own story.
Own It:
* We're a small team, with ambitious goals, and our success depends on each of us stepping up to the challenge.
Don't Stop at Good:
* Our goal is to be better than we were yesterday, knowing that's not as great as we'll be tomorrow.
Team 1st:
* We win by being greater than the sum of our parts. No egos here.
Why you'll love Work.Life Work happiness is our passion, and this starts with our own team. We offer a supportive working environment, plenty of training and development opportunities, competitive salary, monthly wellness package, team joy budget, quarterly socials and more, so you can work happier.
The need to knows:
* The start date for this role is immediate.
* The working hours are 8:30 am - 17:30 pm.
* The interview process will be three stages: a phone interview and two face to face interviews with the final interview including a presentation.
At Work.Life, we're committed to providing an inclusive environment for our team and our members, as we believe that diversity breeds a more innovative, creative, and caring culture.We're an equal opportunity employer. Everyone who applies to Work.Life will be considered for employment without attention to race, age, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender, family or parental status, or disability status. Ready to join the Work.Life way? We're excited to hear from you. Here's our Privacy Policy – by applying for this job you accept how we will use your data.