Food & Beverage Marketing Manager at Travelodge Hotels Limited | England, UK | £50K/yr – £60K/yr

Travelodge Hotels Limited

Food & Beverage Marketing Manager

England, UK (Hybrid)

£50K/yr – £60K/yrMid LevelFull time

Posted 7 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end F&B portfolio performance with a focus on menu economics, promotional planning, and cross-functional system ownership that unlocks revenue growth and profitability.

Strategic Execution & Commercial Performance: drive KPI setting, project delivery, and financial impact for a £70m+ portfolio.
Insight-to-Action & Partnerships: translate surveys and trends into product recommendations and manage key supplier SLAs.
System Ownership & Post-Launch Analytics: own Zonal ePOS setup, menu modelling, reporting, and next-step recommendations.

Job Description

Own end-to-end F&B portfolio performance across menu economics, promotional planning, and system ownership with cross-functional execution and travel readiness.

Strategic Execution: Own KPI setting, project delivery, and senior-stakeholder presentations in partnership with the Senior F&B Product Manager.
Commercial Performance: Maximise revenue and gross margin on a £70m+ portfolio via menu development, pricing reviews, and value engineering with finance.
Insight & Innovation: Translate Wish surveys, customer panels, TripAdvisor, and competitor trends into actionable product recommendations.
Promotional & Pre-stay Planning: Deliver a promotional calendar with Finance and Brand, driving guest conversion through pre-stay communications across website, eCRM, and digital channels.
System Ownership: Manage Zonal ePOS (Aztec, Acquire, Enterprise Stocks, I-order) including supplier onboarding, product/recipe setup, menu modelling, and reporting.
Stakeholder & Supplier Management: Bridge Central and Field Ops, IT, PR, H&S, Training; manage strategic partners to meet SLAs and sustain innovation.
Post-Activity Analysis: Own performance reporting and provide what-next recommendations shaping the F&B agenda.
Travel Flexibility: Role requires significant national travel.

Travelodge Hotels Limited

Our Company:In 1985, Travelodge became the UK's first budget hotel brand when it opened its first hotel at Barton-under-Needwood. Today, we operate over 600 hotels across the UK, Ireland and Spain and annually welcome over 21 million guests.With a mission to provide affordable travel for everyone, we are currently looking to expand our UK hotel network and we have identified a further 300 locations where we would like to open a Travelodge hotel.Travelodge employs over 12,000 employees and is dedicated to its purpose of creating an environment where everyone can learn more, earn more and belong.To find out about our current property projects and future development plans follow our dedicated Travelodge Property and Development Page.

Founded in 1985

Thame, England, GBR

5K employees

www.travelodge.co.uk