New OCL boss will promote healthy living

OCL's new Sales and Marketing Manager Jamie Smith

Oldham Community Leisure (OCL) has employed a new Sales and Marketing Manager, who will be responsible for helping the non-profit trust to actively promote the benefits of a healthy lifestyle to the local and wider community.

Jamie Smith will take overall responsibility for sales and marketing activity across all of OCL’s sites in Oldham, Royton, Saddleworth, Failsworth and Chadderton.

The trust provides a wide variety of sports and leisure activities, inclusive for all members of the community.

Smith’s role will be to build relationships with local people, businesses, clubs and community groups in a bid to get more people, more active, more often and help improve mental and physical wellbeing in the community.

“My personal goals are in line with OCL’s mission statement of ‘a community more active more often’,” said Smith.

“Sport, leisure and recreational activity are a key component in improving the physical and mental wellbeing of the community.

"I look forward supporting OCL in its mission by promoting our excellent facilities and services.”

Smith graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University with BSc in Psychology of Sport and Exercise.

He has previously worked as Sales and Marketing Manager at Virgin Active Clubs in Wokingham, Guildford and Sunbury and has held similar roles for The Village Health and Fitness and Nuffield Health. 

Pete Howson, Head of Customer Relations at OCL, said: “I am delighted to welcome Jamie into our corporate team.

"He has a wealth of experience, an impressive track record of success and is well placed to help us promote the unquestionable benefits of physical activity and a healthy lifestyle to local people.

"Jamie’s an incredibly people-centric, customer focussed individual, which fits in perfectly with the OCL ethos of putting our community first.”

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