Customer Experience Team Member

Are you great with people and looking for something a little bit different? Do you thrive in a fast-paced, exciting environment and love a challenge? Can you engage with customers confidently and anticipate their needs? If so, we are looking for fantastic people likeyou to support our Manchester Venuesas a member of our Customer Experience Team.

Full of variety, this role is both fun and challenging. You'll take responsibility for a range of tasks as part of a friendly, passionate, and ambitious team, working in our unique venues with a busy programme of events.

If you have the skills to achieve our goals and an affinity for our values, we'd like to hear from you! Experience from within the entertainment sector is not essential and we actively encourage applications from people from the widest range of backgrounds, including those currently under-represented in this industry.

You do need to be aged 18+ for this position as this role involves the handling and sale of alcohol. Evening and weekend availability is essential.

Screener Phone Call: 7th - 17th September 2026

In Person Assessment Date: 23rd September 2026

Induction Dates: 6th or 7th October 2026

You must be available to attend the assessment and induction date to be successful.

As part of the Customer Experience team, you will report to the Assistant Customer Experience Manager and Supervisors on shift. This is a varied role which involves working in all areas of Front of House which includes welcoming customers, scanning tickets, serving drinks and snacks behind the bars and kiosks, delivering orders to guests in their seats, selling ice cream and programmes in the auditorium and guiding guests to their seats.

This role is based across 2 venues (The Palace Theatre and Opera House Manchester) and as such shifts will be scheduled for both venues depending on the performance calendar. Evening and weekend work is essential for this role. The role is a zero-hour contract. Shifts offered are varied dependent on the performance calendar.

• Proactively suggest and upsell products from the bars, kiosks and merchandise ensuring licensing laws are adhered to.
• Know and understand sales targets and work to exceed them.
• Work collaboratively as a team member.
• Meet, greet and engage with customers ensuring they feel welcomed and valued.
• Direct customers and assist with queries.
• Maintain up to date knowledge of the venues, shows and products.
• Scan tickets before allowing entry to the venue.
• Ensure accurate and safe handling of stock in line with company procedures including manual handling.
• Monitor customer behaviour and address issues in line with company procedures.
• Proactively identify risks towards our customers and staff and manage/report as required.
• Be observant of any health, safety or security risks to our customers and staff and manage/report as required.
• Ensure risk management policies and guidance are complied with.
• Complete in person and online training on a regular basis.
• Identify tasks that need to be done and ensure they are completed.

We are all expected to participate actively in the life of the company, and opportunities will arise for you to collaborate with others across the business. Everyone at ATG Entertainment is expected to be flexible and adapt as the needs of the business change, taking on new or different responsibilities as the need arises.

If you have most of the essential criteria, we encourage you to apply, and welcome transferable skills from other industries or backgrounds. We can give experience of any desirable criteria but may also use them to decide between candidates for this role.

• Excellent customer service experience and skills.
• Have a great work ethic and work well with others.
• Care about people and providing a quality experience.
• Relate well to others and understand their needs.
• Be observant and focussed on the customer.
• Be motivated, decisive and get things done.
• Proactive and flexible attitude, particularly in approach to unsociable / long working hours.
• Sales experience including upselling and suggestive selling.

• Experience with bar work.
• Experience in a fast paced and/or high-volume environment.
• Remain calm under pressure.
• Experience selling age-restricted products.
• Experience with in the hospitality industry.

• THRIVE doing what we love (with passion and dynamism)
• CONNECT through every act (with collaboration and kindness)
• DARE to do different (with curiosity and courage)
• PERFORM at our best (with customer focus and ownership)

• Inclusion:
  Committing to creating and upholding a positive, inclusive culture that nurtures potential and supports well-being.
• Sustainability:
  Playing your part in reducing our environmental impact and finding more sustainable ways of working.
• Next Generations:
  Encouraging the next generation in live entertainment by contributing to our outreach and training…