Salary - up to £45,000 per annum

Schedule - Full Time

Experience - Previous experience within a similar role

Gymkhana Fine Foods

From the award winning and Michelin star kitchen of Gymkhana comes Gymkhana Fine Foods with the vision to transform and elevate Indian cooking at home to new heights. Launching in April, 2023 with a range of Indian pantry staples (cooking sauces, marinades and condiments) with recipes perfected in the kitchen of Gymkhana.

Since Gymkhana first entered the London dining scene ten years ago, it has transformed the way UK diners view Indian cuisine, maintaining it’s Michelin star every year, building a loyal community of fans including locals, celebrities, A-listers, foodies and travelers from around the world. JKS Restaurants, the group behind Gymkhana, partnered with former Mars Director, Gulrez Arora (CEO, co-founder) over their collective vision to bring the finesse, taste and experience of the finest Indian food into consumer’s home.

The Position

As the Social Media, Community and Content Manager, you'll be responsible for developing and implementing our communications and marketing tactics across all of our social media channels. You'll work closely with the rest of the management team, CRM agency, content developers, and other key stakeholders to drive brand awareness and engagement.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop recommendations for best-in-class social media, influencer, and creator partnerships, content creation, and brand partnerships that support overall brand priorities
• Execute and refine a best-in-class organic social/media channel strategy across Meta, TikTok, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube, LinkedIn.
• Drive content pillars, product line content approach, role of social influencers.
• Lead the monthly calendar development and creative briefing
• Report monthly on performance, learnings, and optimizations.
• Stay up-to-date on key social trends and create engaging social content working closely with our in-house videographers and photographers
• Develop and execute a strategy to engage and enlist Content creators, especially those that are a good fit for our brand and the type of content we need for GFF
• Lead a best-in-class community engagement strategy and execution with our brand TOV
• Oversee and execute social listening and community management, including a high touch consumer engagement strategy for high-value brand fans
• Lead all planned and real-time content creation needed for the above social strategies working with influencers, agencies, and other creators and brand partners
• Participate in signal and trend spotting to unveil real-time marketing opportunities.
• Periodically audit competitor plans
• Coordinate brand partnerships in service of content, buzz, and relevance
• Collaborate on video and photo shoots in support of key themes and storytelling, in collaboration with the brand team
• Be the social media expert on the team, continually driving for innovative ways to grow Gymkhana Fine Foods brand love and affinity.

Qualifications:

• To be successful in this role, you should have:
• 5+ years of experience in social media and content creation, preferably within CPG, eCommerce, and/or a high-growth brand
• A deep passion for food ideally Indian cuisine
• Pulse on all things digital and social media
• Strategic thinking and strong collaboration skills
• Experience managing agencies
• Excellent communication skills

Skills and Competencies:

• Ability to drive results and proactively bring new ideas to the table
• Possess a possibility mindset when approaching challenges
• Comfortable with ambiguity
• Ability to leverage data into insights
• Attention to detail
• Ability to balance multiple workstreams simultaneously and set priorities
• Thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment

Benefits & Culture

Our team is the most important part of our business, translating our passion for genuine hospitality to our guests every day. We are proud to work with industry-leading talent and recognise the importance of offering our teams the tools, guidance and experience necessary to build confidence and grow.

We encourage you to bring your whole self to work and celebrate the skills and characteristics that make you unique. Your commitment to be kind and work hard comes with a range of benefits such as:

Treat Yourself

• Up to 50% off dining across JKS Restaurants
• Retail & Takeaway Discounts
• Code App Membership
• Perkbox - access to tons of retail discounts and our wellbeing hub

Look After Yourself

• Discounted Gym Membership
• Company Donations for your involvement with Charities
• Employee Assistance Program
• Access to Financial Advice
• Wedding Gift & New-born Care Package - Celebrating your big occasions

Progress Yourself

• Access to our fantastic L&D Calendar
• A personalised learning & development plan to develop your skills and knowledge
• Career progression with a fast-growing, critically acclaimed restaurant group.

Be Yourself

• Additional holiday for every year with us (rising to 33 days)
• Employee referral scheme - paying up to £600 per referral
• Staff parties & long service awards

The Group

JKS Restaurants was founded by siblings Jyotin, Karam and Sunaina Sethi in November 2008. The group has received critical acclaim and industry recognition since its inception, including 6 Michelin stars, 4 Michelin Bib Gourmands and one restaurant ranked in the World’s 100 Best restaurants.

The JKS portfolio currently includes Michelin Starred restaurants Trishna, Gymkhana, Kitchen Table, Sabor and Lyle’s; as well as cult favourites Hoppers, BAO, Brigadiers, Berenjak, Speedboat Bar, Plaza Khao Gaeng and Bibi. Pubs include The Cadogan Arms and The George.

JKS Restaurants offers a unique chance to either pursue a career in fine dining or develop within casual trend focused cuisine, with opportunities across all disciplines for those looking to progress their careers within a people focused, collaborative hospitality group.