Visitor Experience Team Leader – Visitor Centre - FTC
Advert Close date: 23rd September 2025
Visitor Experience Team Leader – Visitor Centre - 12 month fixed term contract
Purpose of Role
The Crown Estate is looking for a proactive and people-focused Visitor Experience Team Leader to champion the delivery of an exceptional visitor experience at our Visitor Centre. This role is key to ensuring smooth daily operations, high levels of customer satisfaction, and effective team support. You will lead by example, providing operational guidance and fostering a welcoming and inclusive environment for all visitors.
Context of Opportunity / Main Accountabilities
- Lead the on-the-ground delivery of the visitor experience, adapting to changing needs throughout the day.
- Assign team members to customer touchpoints based on footfall to ensure full coverage.
- Liaise with the Digital Service Desk to resolve system issues.
- Support the team in achieving targets and communicating membership benefits to visitors.
- Monitor team performance and provide coaching to build skills and confidence.
- Conduct inductions for new team members and identify training needs.
- Resolve escalated customer complaints and ensure proper documentation.
- Oversee catering service standards and liaise with third-party providers as needed.
- Manage the Welcome Desk and retail spaces, ensuring cleanliness and stock levels.
- Share business updates and performance insights with the team.
- Ensure prompt resolution of building maintenance issues.
- Open and close the Visitor Centre in line with operating procedures.
- Administer First Aid and ensure compliance with policies including cash handling, uniform standards, and lost property.
Most Important Skills-Based Requirements
- Experience in a busy, front-line customer service environment.
- Proven ability to manage complaints and achieve positive outcomes.
- Strong customer service ethos and ability to coach and mentor a team.
- Excellent communication skills and approachability.
- Ability to support others through change and identify benefits.
- Problem-solving mindset with attention to detail.
- Team-oriented with a collaborative approach.
- IT literate and comfortable using digital systems.
- DBS approved and First Aid qualified.
This is a fixed term contract position
Our Offering / benefits:
As well as a competitive salary, pension and performance related bonus offering, we have a wealth of benefits available ranging from market leading family policies and shopping discounts, to private healthcare; life and critical illness cover and 28 days holiday with the option to buy more. We value work life balance and your wellbeing highly, enabling you to be your best self to work.
Disability Disclaimer:
We are a proud disability confident employer and operate the offer of interview scheme Disability Confident employer scheme - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
We are happy to offer alternative application methods or formats and can be flexible on our process to enable you to have the best opportunity.
If you have any questions about our recruitment process or would like to talk about adjustments, please contact us on careers@thecrownestate.co.uk
- Department
- Windsor & Rural
- Locations
- Windsor
- Employment type
- Contract
Windsor
Our Perks & Benefits
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28 days paid holiday
We value that you get more time with your family and friends. Therefore, we offer everybody 28 days paid holiday, 2 volunteering days and the option to purchase further holiday.
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Flexible working
We value work-life balance highly, therefore we have flexible & hybrid working policies.
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Market leading family friendly policies
We want the support we offer to be inclusive of everyone, reflective of the wide range of situations people face in life.
Workplace, Culture & Diversity
It’s our ambition to be an inclusive organisation that reflects our society, one where all feel welcome, able to be themselves and belong.
A workplace where you’re empowered to be yourself, diverse thinking is encouraged, and a place where you can realise your potential.
About The Crown Estate
The Crown Estate is a unique business with a distinct heritage and a portfolio unlike any other.
It includes some of central London’s best places to work, shop and spend time, retail and leisure destinations across the country, and a substantial rural portfolio. As manager of the seabed and half the foreshore around England, Wales and Northern Ireland, we play a role in the UK’s world-leading offshore wind sector as well as marine aggregates, cables and pipelines. We are also responsible for the Windsor Estate, including the world-renowned Windsor Great Park.
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