03/09/2026
📣 WE’RE HIRING – BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER ☕️✨
📍 The Nook Coffee & Crafts – The Grove, Seaham
I’m looking for the right person to take responsibility for managing The Nook in my absence and, most importantly, help me push the business forward.
This isn’t a role for someone who simply wants to oversee the day-to-day running of a coffee shop.
I need someone who wants to GROW a business.
The Nook has so much potential. We have our coffee shop, craft and event space, workshops, children’s activities, parties, community events and lots of opportunities that we haven’t even explored yet.
Now I need someone with the motivation, drive and enthusiasm to turn that potential into bookings, customers and income.
💡 WHAT I NEED FROM YOU
I’m looking for someone who is:
✨ Proactive, motivated and full of ideas
✨ Confident, bubbly and great with people
✨ Commercially minded and understands that ultimately, the business needs to make money
✨ Organised and able to manage their own workload
✨ Comfortable taking responsibility and making decisions
✨ Reliable and trustworthy
✨ Able to motivate and manage a small team
✨ Confident promoting a business and generating bookings
✨ Someone who sees an opportunity and acts on it rather than waiting to be asked
📅 A BIG PART OF YOUR ROLE WILL BE FILLING OUR DIARY.
That could mean:
• Finding and approaching people to run workshops and classes
• Creating new events and activities ourselves
• Promoting children’s parties and private room hire
• Building relationships with local businesses, schools, groups and organisations
• Looking for new ways to use our space
• Increasing footfall into the coffee shop
• Promoting events and responding to enquiries
• Turning ideas into actual, profitable events
• Looking at what’s working, what isn’t and what we can do differently
If the diary is looking quiet, I want someone who thinks:
“What can I do to change that?”
Not someone who waits for me to tell them.
📈 YOU’LL HAVE REAL OWNERSHIP
I want you to bring your own ideas.
You’ll have the freedom to suggest things, try things, make connections and help shape what The Nook becomes.
But with that freedom comes accountability.
You’ll be expected to keep an eye on bookings, sales and performance and be able to show me what you’re working on to help grow the business.
☕ You’ll also be responsible for helping ensure the day-to-day running of The Nook is organised, welcoming and professional when I’m not there.
Experience in business development, hospitality, events, sales, marketing or management would be fantastic, but I’m equally interested in finding someone with the right personality, work ethic and determination.
If you’re the sort of person who loves a challenge, gets excited by new ideas and genuinely enjoys seeing something you’ve worked on become successful, I’d love to hear from you.
💷 Pay: Negotiable
⏰ Hours: Negotiable
📩 HOW TO APPLY
Please send me a private message with a little about yourself, your previous experience and why you think you’d be right for the role.
And I’d particularly love to know:
If I handed you the keys to The Nook tomorrow, what are the first three things you’d do to help make it busier and more profitable?
We will be interviewing all successful applicants within the next 2-3 weeks
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