National Community & Events Manager; Multi Site

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National Community and Events Manager (Multi Site)

Vida Del Padel is a premium, Spanish inspired indoor padel club brand built around community, culture and serious quality. We are scaling fast across the UK and our focus is simple, build clubs people are proud to be part of, with packed sessions, strong communities, and an atmosphere that feels different to anything else in the market.

This role is the engine behind that.

We are looking for someone to own our community programming and the people that make it happen across all clubs. You will recruit and manage our coaches, club activators, club ambassadors and club influencers remotely, and you will build a consistent events and sessions calendar that drives participation, retention and vibe. You will work closely with our marketing team to make sure everything we run is marketed properly and fills.

If you are organised, commercially switched on, and love bringing sport communities to life and want to play a pivotal role in the padel industry, you will thrive here.

• Recruiting, onboarding and managing coaches, activators, ambassadors and influencers across all clubs
• Building and maintaining a clear pipeline of candidates and a live tracker of status, costs, and responsibilities per club
• Creating and owning a rolling events and sessions calendar per club, aligned to seasonal themes and national campaigns
• Ensuring events and sessions are staffed correctly, run smoothly, and deliver the standard we expect
• Driving participation, not just activity, everything should have a purpose and a target
• Working with marketing to ensure every event has a simple promo plan and a simple content capture plan
• Being on site regularly for meet and greets, launches, priority events, and to maintain standards

People are recruited quickly and held to a clear standard

Every club has a consistent weekly rhythm that members can rely on

Events fill, the community grows, and the atmosphere improves month on month

Everything is planned, booked in and set up correctly for members and newbies to join easily and communicated correctly

Marketing never has to chase for event details, the machine runs

• 3+ years experience in a community, events, sport development, leisure, fitness, or multi site operations role where you owned programming and delivery
• Experience recruiting, managing, or coordinating a team of coaches, instructors, activators, or ambassadors (formal or informal)
• Strong operational skills, you can run calendars, pipelines, trackers, and follow ups without dropping balls
• Willingness to travel regularly across the UK, including occasional evenings and weekends
• Full UK driving licence
• Confident communicator across Whats App, phone, email, and in person
• Comfortable being accountable to KPIs such as attendance, retention, and utilisation

UK, remote with regular travel to our clubs (and some evenings and weekends when events need you)

• Multi site experience (even if it was only 2 to 3 locations)
• Experience in padel, tennis, gyms, studios, group exercise Playtomic sport participation programmes
• Comfortable using booking systems
• A strong instinct for premium brand standards, how things should feel, not just what happens

Competitive salary depending on experience, plus performance bonus

Entry into the company EMI Scheme after a successful 12 months in the business

Travel expenses covered (and mileage or car allowance depending on the setup)

Free club membership and additional perks

Apply with your CV and a short note explaining why you are right for this role to this advert. Include where you are based, whether you drive, and any experience you have building communities or delivering sport and fitness programmes.