At SSP, we're looking for a commercially driven Commercial Manager to help shape performance across our portfolio of Franchise brands such as LEON and Breakfast Club, to deliver profitable sales growth. This is a high-impact role in one of our key strategic markets, where you'll work closely with operational teams and senior stakeholders to drive like-for-like sales growth, improve gross margin and support EBITDA delivery across busy, fast-paced travel locations.
Responsibilities
You'll play a key role in building and delivering commercial plans that drive performance across your brands and categories. From pricing and promotions to range optimisation, upselling and space utilisation, you'll use a range of levers to unlock growth and improve profitability. You will also focus on gross margin improvement by identifying supplier income opportunities, supporting smarter menu and recipe development, and finding practical ways to reduce waste and labour impact without compromising the customer offer. You will regularly present plans, performance and recommendations to senior stakeholders, including UK and Global leadership, and work closely with operational leadership teams in Ireland as well as wider internal and external stakeholders to ensure initiatives are practical, well executed and deliver results in our travel environments.
Qualifications & Skills
You are highly commercial, analytical and confident working in a fast-moving environment. You bring experience of using tools such as pricing, promotions, range, display, space utilisation, category optimisation and upselling to improve commercial performance. You are comfortable using data and evidence to shape decisions, drawing clear insights from analysis and turning them into persuasive recommendations. You can test, learn and refine ideas, then work with the business to implement them successfully. Managing and influencing senior stakeholders and building strong relationships across operational teams, clients and brand partners is important. A good understanding of the food and beverage, hospitality or grocery market would be a real advantage, along with knowledge of the operational realities of running busy units – waste, labour, layout, equipment and seasonality.
Benefits
* Employee discounts across our brands
* Friends and Family Discount App
* Award-winning training, apprenticeships and development programmes
* Health and wellbeing support
* Hybrid working with flexibility to support work‑life balance
* An inclusive and diverse workplace, with employee networks and communities
At SSP, we value diversity and are committed to building a team that reflects a wide range of backgrounds, skills, and perspectives.
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