Marketing and Communications Manager

Responsibilities

• Acting as a brand guardian across all Harts Group brands, ensuring brand positioning, guidelines, tone of voice and visual identity are consistently maintained across all channels and materials.
• Creating copy and content for social media, newsletters, websites and campaigns, adapting it to each brand and supporting integrated activity across digital, social, PR and print.
• Working with external design agencies to ensure all creative assets are on-brand, while managing and organising brand assets and content so they are easily accessible to the wider team.
• Supporting restaurant launches, new concepts, seasonal campaigns and key activations, working closely with Operational, Sales and Digital teams.
• Supporting local marketing activity while maintaining strong overall brand standards.
• Managing day-to-day social media across all Harts Group brands, including Instagram, TikTok and Facebook.
• Building and maintaining monthly and quarterly content calendars, aligned with the PR and communications strategy and key dates including openings, launches, press coverage and awards.
• Planning, creating and scheduling content, working with Operational and Sales teams and freelance photographers or videographers where required.
• Organising and leading photoshoots, content creation, activations and promotional events, and ensuring news, events, press coverage and awards are shared across social channels in a timely and appropriate way.
• Cultivating and maintaining relationships with key media contacts, including journalists, editors and broadcast producers across food, drink, hospitality and lifestyle media.

Requirements

• The candidate will have at least 3 years’ experience, or equivalent experience, managing marketing and communications within the hospitality, food or drinks industry.
• Strong copywriting and marketing skills, exceptional attention to detail, and excellent written and verbal communication are essential.
• The ability to adapt content to different brand voices and styles, alongside experience managing social media channels and planning content, is important.
• Experience working across multiple brands or sites is preferred.

Benefits

• Marketing and Communications Manager Salary of £44,000 plus potential bonuses
• Monday to Friday role from 09:30am till 18:00pm including one day WFH
• Evenings and Events presence required 2-3 times per month
• 50% Off all Food & Drink across all Harts Group
• Company trips to meet our Top suppliers in Mexico, Spain and across the UK
• Increasing holiday allowance on top of your 28 days paid holidays
• Monthly food & drink tastings to keep your tastebuds busy
• Career development, 1-on-1 coaching and training opportunities
• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity packages
• Access to Stream Platform where you can access your wages early and manage your money