Marketing Manager – Part Time

Local Kitchen Co; Adelaide; On-site; AUD 40,000 - 70,000; Part time

Job summary

Local Kitchen Co is seeking a part-time Marketing Manager in Adelaide to lead marketing direction and bring our brand to life across stores, online and in the community. Reporting to the CEO, you’ll blend big-picture strategy with hands-on delivery, aligning activities, sharpening our message and turning interest into loyalty.

You’ll drive campaigns, grow ecommerce, manage budgets, build partnerships and lead a small marketing team to deliver visible results for a growing South Australian food

Qualifications

• Experience leading marketing activity from planning through to delivery.
• Strong understanding of digital marketing, eCommerce and customer engagement.
• Ability to lead a team and work collaboratively across a busy business.
• Experience with brand storytelling and content that engages audiences.
• Comfort with budgeting and measuring marketing impact.
• Experience in food/retail/hospitality or consumer brands is a bonus.

Responsibilities

• Develop a practical marketing plan that supports sales and growth.
• Create campaigns that attract visits, orders, repeat business and referrals.
• Grow ecommerce marketing via content, email, digital ads and user journey improvements.
• Maintain brand recognisability and consistency across channels.
• Lead and support the marketing team with clear priorities.
• Collaborate with retail and kitchen teams on launches and promotions.
• Build community partnerships to reach new audiences.
• Manage the marketing budget and track results.

Skills

Marketing leadership

Digital marketing

eCommerce

Brand storytelling

Budget management

Team leadership

Initiative

Job description

Big ideas. Good food. A role you can make your own.

We make the meals. You'll help make us everyone’s first choice.

At Local Kitchen Co, we’re all about delicious, nutrious food that makes busy lives easier. With retail stores, a growing online business and plenty of ideas on the menu, we’re looking for a part-time Marketing Manager to help more people discover - and love - LKCo.

If you can turn a great story into a clear strategy, bring people together and roll up your sleeves to make things happen, pull up a chair.

What's on the menu?

Reporting to the CEO, you’ll lead our marketing direction and bring our brand to life across stores, online and in the community.

This is a role with room for both big-picture thinking and hands-on delivery. You'll connect our marketing activities, focus our efforts and help turn customer interest into lasting loyalty.

You'll:

• Develop a practical marketing plan that supports sales, customer growth and the next stage of LKCo's journey.
• Create campaigns that give people a reason to visit, order, return and tell their friends.
• Grow our eCommerce marketing through engaging content, email, digital advertising and a better online customer journey.
• Keep our brand recognisable and consistent wherever customers find us.
• Lead and support our marketing and community engagement team, bringing clear priorities and shared direction.
• Work closely with retail and kitchen teams on product launches, seasonal promotions and new store openings.
• Build community connections and partnerships that introduce LKCo to new audiences.
• Manage the marketing budget, track results and use customer insights to decide what to do next.

Your recipe for success

You're creative, commercially minded and organised enough to turn "wouldn't it be great if…" into something customers can see, taste and buy.

You'll bring:

• Experience leading marketing activity from planning through to delivery.
• A strong understanding of digital marketing, eCommerce and customer engagement.
• A feel for brand, storytelling and content that makes people stop scrolling.
• The ability to lead a team and work collaboratively across a busy business.
• Confidence managing budgets and measuring what’s working.
• Initiative, good judgement and a willingness to get involved.
• Experience in food, retail, hospitality or a growing consumer brand would be a delicious bonus.
• Make your mark: Help shape the marketing direction of a growing South Australian food business.
• See your ideas come to life: From an online campaign to a store launch, your work will have a visible impact.
• Work close to the action: Partner directly with our CEO and the people making, moving and selling our food.
• Bring your experience to a part-time role: We'll agree on a working pattern that supports the role and the business.

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