The role
We are hiring a Commercial Growth Manager to own the commercial success of a portfolio of 3–4 restaurant brands across the Growth Kitchen platform.
Think of yourself as the General Manager for your brands within Growth Kitchen. You'll be responsible for growing revenue per store, improving conversion, improving operational performance, strengthening partner relationships and identifying opportunities to help your brands succeed.
This is a hands-on, high-impact role at the intersection of commercial, operations and growth. You'll work directly with restaurant founders, delivery platforms and internal teams to solve problems, launch initiatives and continuously improve the performance of your portfolio.
You'll have real ownership from day one and the autonomy to make decisions, experiment and deliver measurable commercial outcomes.
Key responsibilities
- Own the commercial performance of a portfolio of restaurant brands, delivering sustainable sales growth, operational excellence and outstanding partner relationships.
- Act as the primary commercial partner to restaurant founders and leadership teams, building trusted relationships and identifying opportunities to grow their business.
- Work cross-functionally with Operations, Sales, Marketing and Supply Chain teams to deliver growth plans and improve performance across your brands.
- Analyse commercial performance, identify opportunities and implement initiatives to improve sales, conversion, customer experience, profitability and operational KPIs.
- Launch and optimise new menus, brands, promotions and growth initiatives using customer insights, operational feedback and commercial data.
- Work closely with delivery platforms to improve visibility, conversion and commercial performance across Uber Eats, Deliveroo and Just Eat.
- Improve operational performance by identifying bottlenecks across kitchens, supply chain and customer experience, then working with internal teams to solve them.
- 2–5 years' experience in a commercial, operational or growth-focused role where you've owned measurable business outcomes.
- Experience in areas such as hospitality, retail, FMCG, marketplaces, category management, buying, operations, account management or high-growth startups is highly valued.
- Comfortable using data to make decisions and turning insights into practical actions that improve commercial performance.
- Strong commercial judgement with an instinct for identifying growth opportunities and solving operational problems.
- Excellent relationship-building skills and confidence working directly with founders, suppliers, customers or senior stakeholders.
- Highly organised and able to manage multiple priorities while maintaining a strong bias for action.
- Enjoy taking ownership, figuring things out and getting hands dirty in a fast-moving environment.
- Curious, resourceful and comfortable working without a playbook, while building better processes as you go.
- Passionate about food, hospitality and helping great restaurant brands grow.
- Fluent in English with the right to work in the UK.
- Work directly with founders, restaurant brand owners, executives & decision makers
- Have end-to-end ownership of the brands relationship, with an incredible wide array of exposure to most aspects of the business
- Be at the cutting edge of the restaurant sector
- Work with ambitious & fun individuals
- Build knowledge and experience required to become a leader at Growth Kitchen, or at a high pace scale-up
- Competitive salary and stock option compensation, pension scheme & health insurance
