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GROUP MARKETING MANAGER
INDEPENDENT. FOOD-LED. FAST-GROWING. BLANK CANVAS.
What's in it for you?
- Up to £70,000 package, with excellent bonus structure
- A genuine blank canvas — full ownership of brand and marketing strategy from scratch, with no legacy guidelines to work within
- A high-visibility, senior role reporting directly into the Head of Operations, with direct access to ownership
- Join a business on an ambitious growth trajectory — a major new flagship site is already underway, with further sites in the pipeline
- The rare chance to also help shape marketing for a fast-growing business, including a major forthcoming project
- Lead and build out an existing sales and marketing team as the function grows around you
Who are they?
Our client is an independently group of premium, food-led pubs across Kent and East Sussex. With multiple sites currently and more on the way, they've built a strong reputation locally for individual, characterful venues rather than a branded chain feel. Growth has been entirely self-funded, with profits consistently reinvested back into the estate, meaning sites are well-maintained, well-loved, and constantly evolving. This is a hands-on, passionate, ownership-led business that wants marketing with the same energy and conviction as the food and the venues themselves — no corporate spiel, just genuine belief in the brand.
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What will you get up to?
- Rebuild the group's marketing and brand strategy from the ground up
- Own the annual marketing calendar and campaign planning across the estate
- Create a fresh brand identity and visual direction that reflects a premium, individual pub group
- Lead and elevate the group's social media presence and content
- Partner closely with ownership and the operations team to align marketing activity with commercial goals
- Support and help shape marketing for the group's vineyard business, including its major visitor centre development
- Build out, develop and lead the existing sales and marketing team
- Get out on site regularly across the group to build relationships with teams and understand the business
- Help reposition the brand as a premium, individual, destination-led operator rather than "just another pub group"
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What are we looking for?
- Proven marketing leadership experience within a multi-site pub, restaurant, casual dining or bar group.
- Wider drinks-sector experience is a bonus, but not essential
- Confident taking full ownership of brand and strategy rather than working within existing guidelines
- Direct, energetic and full of conviction — this is not a role for a corporate, numbers-first pitch
- Commercially minded, with a clear understanding of how marketing activity drives revenue
- Happy to be on-site regularly, particularly in the early months, to build trust with the team
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