Programme and Project Management:

• Own the end-to-end validation process, driving it against clear timelines and holding pace as volumes increase.
• Own KPI monitoring and reporting across validation, and run the review process that decides what interventions are needed and which brands progress.
• Build and maintain scalable systems, templates and playbooks so the process holds up as volume grows toward c.20 brands a year.
• Prioritise across the full portfolio of brands in validation, deciding where time and resource should be spent as volumes increase, and why.
• Maintain live visibility of the validation pipeline, so issues within any brand's validation are caught and diagnosed quickly rather than surfacing late.

Cross-Functional Collaboration:

• Work and collaborate with Studio, Supply Chain and Growth so validation's needs are reflected in their planning.
• Understand constraints and capacity within each team, and where resource is best spent and which brands are prioritised.
• Draw on the expertise other teams bring, while still owning the decisions and driving validation towards clear outcomes.
• Once a brand has been validated, coordinate with the relevant downstream teams — including UKI — to set both the brand and those teams up for success.

Continuous Improvement & Systematic Learning:

• Take a proactive, hypothesis-led approach to validation: capture insight from each brand's pre- and post-validation stages and apply it earlier in the next one, so problems are caught before a brand goes live rather than after.
• Draw on insight from the broader Sessions estate — brands already live and scaling — to identify where validation itself can improve.
• Build AI-enabled reporting tools that turn validation data into structured, comparable analysis, so each brand's learnings become part of a growing, repeatable body of knowledge rather than one-off analysis.

People Management & Leadership:

• Directly manage and line-lead the New Brands Trainer, setting clear operational priorities and managing workload across brand rollouts.
• Support ongoing professional development, career growth, and skills enhancement for direct reports.
• Lead recruitment and onboarding efforts as team requirements scale.
• Oversee performance management and evaluation to maintain high standards of execution across validation sites.

DESIRED SKILLS, EXPERIENCE & QUALITIES:

• Process Ownership: highly organised, with a strength in process and procedure — builds and continuously improves repeatable systems, not just follows them.
• Cross-Functional Influence: delivers through teams that don't report to them.
• People Management: has line-managed and developed a direct report.
• Hands-On: comfortable in the operational detail, not just directing from above.
• Data and Hypothesis-Led: uses data and hypotheses to proactively spot issues before they surface, blending on-the-ground insight with what the data is showing to drive decision-making.
• Sector Experience: food, hospitality or QSR background valuable as context — ideally kitchen-to-corporate or hospitality experience.
• Strong communicator, able to build rapport and resolve conflict.
• Willing to travel to host sites; based in the London office.
• Ambitious, with a drive to join a fast-paced, high-growth company.
• Delivery platform experience preferred but not essential.
• Charismatic and energetic, with a passion for food.
• Expert English and right to work in the UK.

BENEFITS & PERKS

💷 Financial

• Share Options - Receive an amount of share options for Sessions Market Ltd.
• Pay day on demand - Access to pay in advance whenever needed
• Expense card - Company Card
• Finance Platform - Access to 'Mintago', Financial Wellbeing Platform

🌴 Social, Mental & Physical Wellbeing:

• Hybrid Working - up to 2 days working remotely per week
• Holidays - 25 days + bank holidays + Birthday Off
• Healthcare - Vitality PMI + Healthcare Cash Plan scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme - Support for mental health and legal services
• Socials - Monthly socials

Sessions are a living wage and equal opportunity employer. All applicants are reviewed 'anonymously' where only work experience and education will be available for the hiring manager to view - all applicants will be considered for employment without attention to ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity status or disability status.