City Centre & Visitor Economy Partnership Manager - Cambridge
We are seeking a proactive and strategic City Centre and Visitor Economy Partnership Manager to play a crucial role in leading the Council’s approach to supporting the local visitor economy and developing city centre partnership working.
Working within the Economy and Place group, you will balance policy development with hands-on partnership management to steward the environmental, social, and economic health of Cambridge city centre. You will collaborate with businesses, strategic partners, and internal services to ensure our historic city centre remains a vibrant, sustainable, and inclusive place to live, learn, work, visit, and do business.
This high-impact role involves shaping strategic policy, building stakeholder relationships, securing investment, and integrating data-led decision-making across our visitor economy agendas.
In this role you will:
- Lead Cambridge’s involvement in the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Local Visitor Economy Partnership (LVEP) and Destination Management Plan delivery.




- Take forward the ‘Thriving City Centre for All’ motion to shape a shared, vibrant, accessible, clean, and safe city centre vision.
- Shape local strategic approaches to emerging opportunities, including preparations for a potential local Visitor Levy.
- Liaise with key partners such as Cambridge BID, Visit Cambridge, the Chamber of Commerce, and regional or national tourism bodies.
- Build and maintain a comprehensive city centre data dashboard using wide-ranging datasets to support evidence-based decision-making and policy.
- Identify and secure external investment, capital, and revenue funding to enhance the city centre and manage visitor economy impacts.
- Collaborate across internal teams and regional frameworks (such as the Combined Authority and Greater Cambridge Partnership) to align place-making, transport, and operational workflows.

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