Retail Marketing Manager ( 6MONTHS FTC ) Head Office - Wonderfield Group Contract: Full Time Salary: 45,000 Contracted Hours: 40 The Wonderfield Group has recently been purchased by Zensho Holdings, the leading food service company in Japan with a market cap of $5.5b and whose aim is to become the worlds largest food company, a position from which we can eradicate hunger and poverty from around the globe. We operate restaurants, factories, and thousands of sushi kiosks and have recently built a successful cut fruit business, Snowfruit. Combining this with the three businesses previously owned by Zensho, AFC, Sushi Circle and Sushi Take, results in annual sales of $2.5b and Ebitda in excess of $140m a year with an ambitious growth trajectory. Ideally, You’ll already have the following key Behaviours • You’re a foodie, up-to-date on current trends with a passion for World Food and Wellness as well as Japanese and Pan-Asian cuisine which is the heart of our business. • You will be commercial as well as creative with a passion for driving brand value for all. • Self-starter who works collaboratively, communicates persuasively and inspires confidence. • You will be able to work in an extremely fast paced and moving environment. • Creative thinker with an excellent eye for detail and hunger to build knowledge and grow career. • You’ll be used to stakeholder management and able to plan your time and deliver under pressure, working autonomously on multiple projects. This is a 6 months FTC Key Accountabilities: • You will take ownership and are accountable for delivering our retail annual marketing calendar. • You will lead the customer facing strategy for kiosks utilising digital, social, OOH, instore media with performance targets and ROIs. • You will work with the commercial team to create and deliver a commercial sales driving calendar of activity across the year. • You will work with the commercial team to create and deliver the delivery and click & collect strategy for retail. • You will take ownership for our new opening launch marketing plans, supporting Franchise, Operational and New Opening Teams to deliver on our objectives across the retail estate. • You will lead community marketing strategy, for both existing and new opening kiosks by facilitating promotions, campaigns and events management at local and national level. • You will work with the Regional Team and Franchise Team to ensure that all marketing initiatives are understood and delivered to ensure maximum buy in and support. • You will support and facilitate our local buzz marketing strategy alongside local press outreach and social for all brands. • You will identify and build key marketing business contacts and relationships with our retail partners. • You will work closely with our partner programmes and manage all promotions and initiatives. • You will work collaboratively with our Commercial, Food and Technical Teams to develop our product proposition across new and existing channels. • You will work with our Digital Team to help create and manage all content across social channels including content creation, working closely with our Community Management team on engaging with our audiences to maximise success of launches. • You will work closely with our Digital Team on kiosk specific ECRM and website updates ensuring