Are you a passionate, curious, and innovative marketer looking for a role that will utilise your creativity? With over 1,600 sites we’re the home of some of the nation’s favourite restaurants, bustling bars, cosy country pubs and the local you didn’t know we owned. If you’re as passionate about making a difference within hospitality as we are, we want to hear from you!

Our strategy as a company is clear, we want to ensure guests keep coming back by keeping our brands fresh and building our reputation for quality, choice, service, and value for money. We have a fantastic opportunity for an Assistant Marketing Manager for New Product Development to join our Marketing Innovation team.

Working in a mobile role you will be supporting the NPD Marketing Managers and wider Innovation team in the development of marketing plans for existing innovation concepts; Delivery, Click & Collect and Order at Table; Future concepts and Brand initiatives. You will be a creative, self-starter with a can do attitude and a passion for brands, new innovation and trends. You will be results driven and able to effectively deliver, working closely with a cross-functional network, both internally and externally. This exciting role demands creative thinking with strong commercial skills and an unwavering attention to detail. This is an implementation role that requires a high degree of flexibility.

You’ll be well rewarded…

• Love eating out? You'll love it even more with a massive 33% discount across all our brands, so whether its date night at Miller & Carter or family roast at Toby Carvery we’ve got you covered.  What’s more, you can also choose FIVE of your nearest and dearest and sign them up to 20% family and friend’s discount.
• Mobile working: the flexibility to work from home, the office or one of our sites
• Company Car
• Annual Bonus Scheme – we’re all about rewarding the hard work everybody puts in
• Buy up to an extra 10 days holiday – life is for living after all! 

On top of all this, we offer a pension, 26 days paid holiday; friends & family discount, high-street shopping discounts; and we even give you free shares! There's also a free employee helpline- to support you with whatever life throws at you.

The Opportunity – Assistant Marketing Manager

• Supporting the NPD Marketing Manager in providing high quality marketing delivery across a wide variety of marketing innovation projects
• Supporting the development of and owning the implementation effective on- and offline ‘BAU’ marketing plans for existing new concepts
• Supporting on the development of new concept, channel and new product pipelines
• Supporting the Marketing Manager with the day to day management of Delivery, Click & Collect and Order at table requirements including promotions, campaign management, social, web, photography and comms
• Responsible for the development, co-ordination and communication of the day to day business reports required to assess progress, issues, recommended decisions and results of innovation projects
• Developing and maximising third party relationships in conjunction with key internal stakeholders to deliver ‘on-brand’ objectives and strategies
• Managing relationships with external creative teams, digital marketing teams, market research agencies, food and drink suppliers, print management and other vendors
• Supporting the management of the assigned marketing resources and budgets effectively

What you’ll need to bring to the Assistant Marketing Manager role: 

Just like our brands, our teams are diverse. You’ll have...  

• Highly flexible – with a ‘can do’ attitude, creative thinker and proactive at resolving issues
• Creative, resilient, with boundless energy and enthusiasm
• Excellent organisation and prioritisation skills with an absolute focus on delivery and implementation, on time, to plan and on budget
• 2-3 years’ experience of successful brand, product and/or concept development within the hospitality/retail sector
• Experience of working in fast paced retail environment
• Strong interpersonal and influencing skills
• An understanding of consumer segmentation, profiling and analysis
• Experience working in guest focused, highly commercial sales & marketing teams

Working at the home of hospitality (our head office), you may not be serving our guests, but your support will put smiles on our guests and teams faces. This is the place where we get creative, train our teams and crunch our numbers. We’re all about having fun and creating moments to remember across the nation, our head office is no different.  

Closing Date: Midnight, 15 Feb 2023