Find where you belong!
Are you ready to challenge the status quo and redefine "Affordable Travel" for millions of guests? Do you have the commercial flair to turn customer insights into a multi-million pound revenue-driving menu? If yes, our Food & Beverage Marketing Manager position might be the right next move for you.
Your Purpose
As our F&B Product Manager, you will be a key player in our centrally based Product and Proposition team. You will not just be responsible for managing our menus; you will be managing a high-volume nationwide food and beverage engine that supports over 230 internal restaurants (Bar Cafes) and up to 600 vend locations delivering snacks and breakfast-to-go
Your mission is to evolve and optimise our existing F&B propositions while developing new opportunities grounded in deep customer insight, ensuring they are operationally viable and brand-aligned to deliver "Affordable Travel for Everyone".
Key Responsibilities:
- Strategic Execution & Project Management: Lead tactical projects and support the Senior F&B Product Manager on large-scale strategic shifts, owning everything from KPI setting to final implementation and presenting to senior stakeholders.
- Commercial Performance & Finance: Monitor and maximise the revenue and profit of a £70m+ portfolio through menu development, category pricing reviews, and value engineering. You will work closely with finance to evaluate the commercial benefit of F&B activities and manage the budget effectively, despite having no direct budget or people management responsibilities.
- Insight & Innovation: Champion the customer by translating data from surveys like 'Wish', customer panels, TripAdvisor, and competitor trends into actionable product recommendations.
- Promotional & Pre-stay Planning: Collaborate with Finance and Brand teams to deliver a promotional calendar. You will also manage pre-stay communications alongside the digital teams to drive guest conversion across our website, eCRM, and digital channels.
- System Ownership: Experience with our ePOS system Zonal (Aztec, Acquire, Enterprise Stocks, I-order) is essential, as you will own the process of adding suppliers, building products/recipes, menu modelling, and reporting.
- Stakeholder & Supplier Management: Act as the bridge between Central and Field Operations, IT, PR, H&S, and Training. You will manage relationships with strategic external partners including Bidfood, Matthew Clark, Selecta, and Inside the Box to ensure SLAs are met and innovation remains constant.
- Post-Activity Analysis: Take full responsibility for reporting on performance and providing the "what next" recommendations that shape our future F&B agenda.
This role requires flexibility due to significant national travel.
Your Strengths
We are looking for a high-energy, commercial strategist and self-starter who thrives in fast-paced, high-pressure, corporate environments. You are a multi-disciplinary project lead capable of orchestrating complex marketing workstreams and delivering high-stakes outputs under tight timelines.
Essential Requirements:
- A degree in Marketing (or a related business field) coupled with substantial experience in brand and proposition development. This must include a proven track record within the Head Office functions of hotel groups, restaurant chains, or travel brands
- Advanced proficiency with Zonal ePOS systems (specifically Aztec, Acquire, etc.) from a data management and back-office configuration perspective.
- The ability to steer the financial health of a brand through rigorous menu engineering, agile pricing model, and gross margin optimisation.
- A data-driven mindset capable of deciphering complex market insights into compelling, high-level business cases for Executive Boards and stakeholders.
Desirable Requirements:
- A CIM professional certificate and experience within a high-volume value chain proposition.
Your Perks
- Up to £60,000 & Annualise Bonus
- Contributory pension scheme
- Car Allowance
- Hybrid working - a minimum of 60% of your time should be spent in the office, in our hotels and or visiting suppliers
- 50% personal discount for hotel bookings and great friends and family discounts too!
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays, increasing with length of service
- A focus on learning and career development
Why Travelodge?
We believe in creating an inclusive workplace where everyone can be their true self and belong. We work hard to improve the diversity of our teams and celebrate our differences. And we care about our colleagues’ wellbeing, so we ensure there are plenty of resources available so everyone can look after their emotional, physical, financial and work wellbeing. We call this “Better Me”.