Senior Hospitality and Events Manager

Salary: £50,386 is on offer plus various generous company benefits including enhanced holidays and pension.

Eden Scott is delighted to be working with Historic Environment Scotland (HES), the lead public body responsible for investigating, caring for, and promoting Scotland’s historic environment.

HES has a range of responsibilities which include being the custodian of collections of national and international importance as well as managing over 300 properties in their care. Buildings and monuments of national significance include Edinburgh Castle – Scotland’s number one visitor attraction – Neolithic Orkney, Fort George, Melrose Abbey and numerous small local sites, attracting more than 3 million visitors a year.
Many of their venues are available for corporate events, weddings, community events and filming and include Edinburgh & Stirling Castle, Linlithgow Palace and Melrose, Arbroath & Dryburgh Abbey to name a few.

HES now have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Hospitality and Events Manager to join the team in their Edinburgh Head Office on a six-month contract.

This role is within the Marketing & Engagement Directorate, which has primary responsibility for income generation in the organisation. This is an exciting time to join the team with an organisational focus on commercial income.

In this temporary role of Senior Hospitality and Events Manager, you will help shape the future of our hospitality and events strategy. You will lead a team, review their current approach and recommend improvements that will deliver strong commercial results. You will have two direct reports, the Hospitality and Events Manager and the Commercial Contracts Manager. The team consists of 7 people in total and covers commercial events, hospitality, catering contracts and their holiday let business.

Skills and experience required:

We are looking for an experienced Hospitality & Events Manager, or similar from a unique venue, visitor attraction, hotel or similar. A team player with significant leadership skills and commercial acumen.

Excellent salary of £50,386 is on offer plus various generous company benefits including enhanced holidays and pension.

Full time, 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Eden Scott is dealing exclusively with HES on this vacancy.
For an informal chat please call Sally Rae at Eden Scott: or email  to receive the full job description.

Final date to receive applications:
Thursday 12/03/2026