Location: Kolkata
Role: Marketing Manager
Experience: 3–6 years
Industry: Hospitality / F&B / Restaurants / Nightlife (preferred)
Role Overview:
The Marketing Manager will be responsible for planning and executing the overall marketing strategy across digital, social media, performance marketing, aggregator platforms, events, partnerships and on-ground activations.
You will be the key link between the team and external marketing partners/agencies, ensuring that all marketing activities are aligned with business objectives and executed on time.
This is a hands-on role for someone who understands that marketing for a hospitality business is not just about likes and followers — it is about footfall, covers, revenue, repeat customers and ROI.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Overall Marketing Strategy
- Develop and execute the monthly and quarterly marketing plan.
- Build the annual/monthly marketing calendar covering:
- Events & theme nights
- Offers and promotions
- Food & beverage campaigns
- Sports screenings
- Seasonal campaigns
- Influencer collaborations
- Brand partnerships
- Customer acquisition and retention
- Identify opportunities to increase weekday and weekend footfall.
- Develop campaigns specifically around key business challenges such as early-evening footfall, late-night footfall and slow days.
- Work closely with the management team to understand revenue and business targets and translate them into marketing objectives.
2. Social Media Agency Management
- Act as the primary point of contact for the social media agency.
- Prepare and communicate monthly marketing briefs.
- Ensure content calendars, creatives, reels, stories and campaigns are delivered on time.
- Review agency performance and ensure the brand’s communication remains consistent.
- Track content performance and identify what formats, themes and campaigns are actually driving engagement and business.
- Push the agency to continuously improve rather than simply maintain the social media calendar.
3. Performance Marketing
- Understand and manage paid digital marketing campaigns across platforms such as Meta and Google.
- Work with the agency/performance marketing partner to plan campaigns and allocate budgets.
- Monitor campaign performance including:
- Reach
- CTR
- CPC
- CPM
- Leads/reservations
- Cost per acquisition
- Conversion rates
- ROAS/ROI
- Identify which campaigns are generating actual customer visits and revenue.
- Ability to independently set up or optimise campaigns will be an added advantage.
4. Aggregator & Platform Marketing
- Manage and track marketing spends across platforms such as Swiggy, Zomato, District, EazyDiner and other relevant platforms.
- Evaluate the ROI of:
- Sponsored listings
- Discounts
- Platform campaigns
- Visibility packages
- Promotional offers
- Maintain a monthly tracker of spend vs. revenue generated.
- Negotiate and coordinate promotional opportunities with aggregator/platform representatives.
- Identify which offers and platforms are genuinely contributing to incremental business.
5. Marketing Budget & ROI
- Own the overall marketing budget in coordination with management.
- Maintain a detailed marketing spend tracker across:
- Social media
- Performance marketing
- Influencers
- Aggregators
- Events
- Creatives
- Partnerships
- Offline marketing
- Prepare monthly Budget vs. Actual reports.
- Track marketing spend against covers, revenue and other relevant business KPIs.
- Recommend where budgets should be increased, reduced or reallocated based on performance.
6. Influencer & Partnership Marketing
- Develop and execute influencer marketing campaigns.
- Identify relevant food, nightlife, lifestyle and Kolkata-based creators.
- Coordinate influencer visits, deliverables and collaborations.
- Track influencer campaign performance.
- Explore corporate, community, brand and cross-promotion partnerships that can generate incremental footfall.
7. Events & Experiential Marketing
- Work closely with the events/operations team to market weekly events and special occasions.
- Develop promotional plans for theme nights, live performances, sports screenings and special events.
- Ensure every major event has a structured:
- Pre-event campaign
- Influencer push
- Paid media plan
- Story/reel plan
- On-ground communication
- Post-event content and performance analysis
- Analyse event-wise marketing performance and learnings.
8. Reporting & Analytics
Prepare a monthly marketing report covering:
- Total marketing spend
- Spend by channel
- Social media growth and engagement
- Paid media performance
- Aggregator spend and performance
- Influencer performance
- Campaign-wise performance
- Event-wise performance
- Covers generated
- Revenue generated
- Cost per acquisition/cover where measurable
- Key learnings and recommendations for the following month