Job Title: Market Manager
Location: Local authority based in Barking
Hourly rate: £26.88 PAYE/ £35.18 Umbrella
Contract Length: 3-month temporary contract (possibility of extension)
Working Pattern: Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri, Sat (35 hours per week)
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This is a full-time office role and hybrid working is not feasible for this role.
Job Purpose:
The lead officer responsible for the day-to-day operational running of Barking Market.
Supervision of staff, traders, shop keepers and general public, ensuring adherence to appropriate regulations: in particular health and safety, financial management and security.
Job Duties:
The day-to-day operation and supervision of Barking Market ensuring that it operates in an orderly, clean and safe manner at all times - in accordance with Council Policy.
To manage, engage and implement a range of themed market days throughout the year.
Ensure the market and its accesses are clean and tidy prior to opening.
Oversee the setting-up, shutting down and site tidiness of the market during market trading days, including the allocation of spaces.
Implement statutory requirements, byelaws, rules and regulations relating to Barking Market by enforcing monitoring to ensure traders comply with terms and conditions and enforcement of regulations.
Collect daily/weekly rent from traders. Provide the account for regular sums of money, and balance PDQ payments.
Receipts, bank the monies and complete a reconciliation of the tolls to ensure that income is complete.
Ensure the monies collected balances with the bank account deposits from external collection service.
Work with stallholders, customers and others in response to their queries, foster good relationships and generally promote the activity of the market.
Deal with enquiries, complaints and incidents.
Be responsible for bringing in new business and traders to the market.
Keeping up to date spreadsheets for rent list and finance reconciliation.
Be the first point of contact for Market for internal and external agencies and public including market traders.
Person Specification: The ideal candidate must have:
A successful track record in the management of a street market.
Experience of effective partnership and inter agency working.
A record of achievement in managing a successful street market service.
A recognised professional qualification or equivalent technical qualification.
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