Marketing Manager

London, UK (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableMid LevelFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own campaign planning and multi channel execution for Wasabi restaurants, turning business priorities into sequenced annual and campaign plans, with a data driven, customer first approach across social, CRM, paid, and on platform initiatives.

  • Own the end to end campaign lifecycle from insight to measurement across social, paid, and CRM for restaurant marketing.
  • Coordinate local and national activity through the Restaurant Marketing Calendar, ensuring tight alignment with trading priorities and KPIs.
  • Embed post campaign learning into future plans and work closely with Operations, Finance, Food, and Grocery teams to maximize impact.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Translate the agreed restaurant marketing strategy into integrated annual and campaign-level marketing plans, ensuring alignment to business priorities
  • Lead development and execution of 360 marketing campaigns from brief through to evaluation; managing timelines, budgets, agency relationships, and cross-functional sign-off
  • Own the Restaurant Marketing Calendar, ensuring all activity is sequenced effectively against commercial priorities and key trading occasions
  • Embed a robust post-activity analysis process, ensuring learnings are captured and fed back into future planning
  • Brief, develop, and deliver campaigns within the established creative platform and brand guidelines, ensuring consistency across all customer touchpoints
  • Champion bold, distinctive creative thinking within the agreed brand framework, pushing agency partners to deliver work that cuts through
  • Manage day-to-day relationships with creative, media, and production agencies, setting briefs, managing feedback cycles, and maintaining high output standards
  • Own the day-to-day management and growth of Wasabi's restaurant social media channels (Instagram, TikTok, and others), executing against the social strategy set by the Marketing Director
  • Manage CRM and loyalty marketing, owning customer lifecycle communications through the Wasabi app and owned channels to drive frequency and retention
  • Plan and manage performance marketing activity (paid social, paid search) in support of campaign and commercial objectives

Requirements

  • Proven experience in a senior marketing role within QSR, multi-site hospitality, or retail
  • Strong campaign management capability, able to take a brief from insight through to execution and rigorous post-campaign evaluation
  • Demonstrated ability to deliver against commercial KPIs including revenue, transactions, and ROI
  • Strong agency management skills, able to write effective briefs, manage creative development, and hold partners to high standards
  • Commercially astute, with experience managing and optimising marketing budgets
  • Hands-on digital and social expertise, managing social channels, performance marketing, and CRM/loyalty programmes
  • Genuinely social media fluent with experience in influencer and creator marketing, and a clear understanding of how to build brand reach through authentic, user-generated content
  • Highly collaborative and able to work effectively across Operations, Finance, Food, and other functions without losing momentum
  • Excellent organisational skills; able to manage multiple priorities and deliver at pace without compromising quality
  • Comfortable in a fast-moving, lean-resource environment; resourceful, resilient, and solutions-focused

    Benefits

    • A great working environment
    • Pension scheme
    • Target Bonus
    • Refer A Friend Scheme
    • Free Sushi or hot food (vegan options available)
    • 50% discount in our Branches
    • Employee Assistant Programme
    • Hybrid working model
    • Long Service Awards
    • Wagestream - a financial wellbeing benefit that lets you access your pay as you earn it in real time and manage savings
    Wasabi Sushi & Bento logo

    Wasabi Sushi & Bento

    Home of the finest sushi & bento from London to New York City! As well as a vast menu of delicious pan-Asian dishes, Wasabi is the UK's first outlet to sell individually-wrapped pieces of sushi, offering customers a beautifully wide choice and the chance to truly experiment with the fresh delights of Japanese cuisine.

    Founded in 2003
    London, England, GBR
    755 employees (12 in marketing)

    Traffic Signals

    Monthly Visitors
    5.4K
    Traffic Source Mix
    Search
    47%
    Direct
    39.5%
    Referral
    8.3%
    Social
    4%
    Paid
    1%

    Headcount Trend

    Current headcount: ~755

    Marketing Team

    Marketing Team Size
    12 (2% of company)

    Funding

    Total Funding
    $5.3M
    Last Raise
    $3M
    Debt Financing, 2 months ago

    Funding History

    • Apr 2026
      Debt Financing
    • May 2019
      Series Unknown • $3M
    • May 2019
      Debt Financing • $2.3M

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