General Manager - Visitor Destination & Experiences in Porto
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Job Title: General Manager – Visitor Destination & Experiences
Location: Porto, Portugal
Salary: €100,000 – €130,000 gross per annum + bonus + benefits
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An internationally recognised experiences group is seeking a General Manager to lead a major cultural and visitor destination in Portugal.
The destination is a large-scale visitor environment combining a range of guest experiences, including leisure, hospitality, cultural and commercial activities. It attracts high visitor volumes and is designed around delivering engaging, high-quality experiences across multiple audience types.
Reporting to the Group CEO, the General Manager will hold full accountability for operational, commercial and strategic performance, leading a multidisciplinary senior team and driving the next phase of growth.
The role requires a strong, internationally minded leader who is comfortable operating in complex, experience-led environments, balancing operational excellence with long-term strategic and commercial delivery, while building and developing high-performing teams across multiple disciplines.
Key Responsibilities
- Deliver and evolve the long-term strategy for the destination
- Partner with CEO and Board on growth, positioning and investment priorities
- Drive commercial performance across all revenue streams
- Develop experiences and programming to grow visitation, engagement and spend
- Ensure high operational standards across all guest-facing areas
- Lead budgeting, forecasting and financial performance management
- Manage operations through seasonal peaks and major events
- Lead and develop a senior multidisciplinary leadership team
- Maintain strong financial and operational visibility across the business
- Oversee safety, maintenance and overall site standards
Candidate Profile
- 5+ years leading a complex leisure, tourism or experiential operation
- Strong P&L and commercial leadership experience
- Proven delivery in multi-revenue, high-footfall environments
- Ability to balance strategic and operational leadership
- Strong stakeholder and board-level communication skills
- Hands-on, visible leadership style with strong team development capability
- High resilience, energy and commercial mindset
- Strong understanding of visitor, events or experience-led operations
Ideal Backgrounds
- Visitor attractions and destination experiences
- Large-scale leisure or cultural operations
- Experiential tourism or entertainment venues
- Events and food & beverage-led destinations
- Complex, multi-venue visitor environments
Job Title: General Manager – Visitor Destination & Experiences
Location: Porto, Portugal
Salary: €100,000 – €130,000 gross per annum + bonus + benefits
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If you would like to have more information about the role, please apply or send your cv to maria@corecruitment.com
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