Marketing Manager in London

Kolamba Group runs three London Restaurants across two Sri Lankan brands. Kolamba is our premium full-service brand with two restaurants. ADOH is our separate, more casual brand. Both share a founding team and a deep, lived Sri Lankan provenance, but they run on completely separate marketing playbooks. Our philosophy is straightforward: habit over hype, ritual over promotion, authority over trend, recognition over discount.

This is the central, in-house marketing role for the group. You will run performance marketing through our agency partners, manage the social media team, and own the monthly performance scorecard reported directly to the founders. Everything the group does in marketing sits with this role to execute and manage. It is an operating role with a strong performance bias.

What you will own:

• Performance marketing end to end through the digital agency. Briefs, budget, KPI framework, monthly ROAS.
• The group performance scorecard. Diagnose what is working and what is not, agree actions with the founders, and close items out before they roll forward.
• The in-house social media team. Reviewing and approving strategy, content planning, posting cadence, performance review and community management.
• The freelance content teams across both brands. Brief them, schedule them, quality control their output, keep the asset library in order.
• CRM and lifecycle across the premium brand. Segmentation, automations, newsletter cadence, retention discipline.
• A workable data capture approach for the casual brand.
• Agency and partner integration. Digital, PR and CRM platform partners against one shared KPI framework.
• Local search and review management. 100% review response within 48 hours across every site.
• Analytics and attribution. Tag management, the booking conversion event, the social pixel, UTM discipline.
• Brand integrity. Apply the brand language and governance rules consistently across every channel and both brands.

What we need from you:

• Four to seven years in a hands-on marketing role with a strong digital performance bias. Hospitality, food and drink, retail or premium consumer experience strongly preferred.
• Hands-on with paid search, paid social, web analytics and tag management.
• You can read a campaign dashboard, spot what is wrong and tell the agency what to fix.
• Track record managing social media for one or more brands across short-form video and image-led platforms.
• Experience managing freelance creative resource (photographers, videographers, social content creators), including briefing, scheduling and quality control.
• Direct experience holding external agencies to published KPIs.
• Strong working understanding of CRM lifecycle marketing: segmentation, automation, lifetime value.
• Comfortable reporting to founders monthly. You bring the data, the diagnosis and a proposed action, not just a dashboard.
• Excellent written English. Copy you produce or sign off should read like a real person wrote it.

Nice to have:

• Experience launching or scaling a new brand alongside an established one.
• Hospitality CRM and reservations platform experience.

Who you are:

• Commercially literate. You think in covers, spend per head, repeat rate and contribution margin, rather than impressions and reach.
• Operationally disciplined. You hit reporting deadlines and close out actions before anyone has to ask.
• A direct, considered communicator who can tell a founder what is not working without softening it into nothing.