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Founded in 2003 Wasabi's vision is to lovingly create and serve delicious Asian food for a busy nation.Wasabi now has 42 thriving restaurants across London and major UK cities and 4 in New York and in 2019, we introduced Wasabi Home Ben to the grocery channel , launch ing exclusively in Sainsbury's . Building on that success, the grocery business broadened its reach to Tesco in September 2022, followed by exciting launches in Co-op and Morrisons in 2024. Wasabi grocery has seen phenomenal growth and is now a £62m RSV brand. Wasabi proudly stands as the No. 2 chilled ready-meal brand in the market , consistently attracting new customers to the category through an innovative East Asian range.Wasabi's menu is celebrated for its unique character, exceptional freshness, and bold flavours. Our diverse range is designed to delight a wide audience, delivering both comfort and excitement with every bite.We have an ambitious 5-year growth strategy, focusing on new restaurants, franchise partnerships, and international expansion.As we prepare for our next phase of growth and innovation, we have an incredibly exciting opportunity for a Head of Manufacturing and Supply Chain to join our Team based in Park Royal.The Role:This is a pivotal leadership role at the heart of Wasabi's next phase of growth. The Head of Manufacturing and Supply Chain will lead the end-to-end manufacturing and supply chain operation at Park Royal, ensuring the business can scale with pace, consistency and excellence.The role spans the full operating model — from raw material planning and supplier performance through to high-quality food production, warehousing, dispatch and nationwide distribution across retail, grocery and franchise channels.Working closely with the Leadership Team, this person will translate commercial ambition, innovation and customer requirements into efficient, scalable, high-volume operations. Success in the role will come from building high-performing teams, embedding continuous improvement and delivering outstanding service, quality and cost performance.Key Responsibilities:Lead a multifunctional organisation of circa 300 colleagues across supply chain, manufacturing, engineering, warehousing, dispatch and hygiene, building a high-performance, quality-led culture.Act as a visible role model for Wasabi's values and culture, leading with credibility, energy and a hands-on mindset.Develop strong leaders and teams through coaching, knowledge sharing and clear accountability for performance.Oversee workforce planning and labour optimisation across all teams, balancing productivity, cost control, retention and meaningful employment.Drive the manufacturing and supply chain operation towards best-in-class performance by embedding continuous improvement across all factory and logistics activities.Optimise systems, processes, ERP capability and manufacturing equipment in partnership with IT to maximise productivity, efficiency and operational visibility.Build and develop a world-class engineering function, embedding best practice total preventive maintenance to improve reliability and reduce downtime.Remain agile in day-to-day leadership, flexing focus as needed to support critical business priorities in a fast-growth environment.Build strong internal customer partnerships to ensure food quality, service levels and budget expectations are consistently achieved.Translate new product development, menu changes and product enhancements into scalable, efficient factory execution.Own product quality and customer service outcomes, driving improvements in service levels, minimum life on receipt, waste and complaint reduction.Create and sustain robust feedback loops from internal teams, grocery, franchise partners and end customers to continuously raise production and service standards.Lead and evolve Wasabi's end-to-end supply chain and distribution strategy to support growth across retail, grocery and franchise channels.Manage third-party logistics and supply partners to ensure performance, service and cost objectives are delivered consistently.Develop effective supplier relationships that strengthen quality, resilience, value and operational performance across the network.Take full ownership of the functional P&L, improving margin, value and operational efficiency across all product lines and routes to market.Set, track and improve key operational KPIs, providing clear performance insight and progress updates to the Leadership Team and investors.Ensure the highest standards of food safety, hygiene, HSE compliance and BRC performance, with robust action plans to continuously strengthen compliance and audit readiness.Partner effectively with cross-functional leaders to build the plans, infrastructure and operating capability required to support Wasabi's growth ambitions.Champion Wasabi's ESG agenda through innovation in waste, energy efficiency, sustainable production and social mobility.Stay close to emerging best practice and innovation in sustainable food production, implementing practical solutions that reduce environmental impact and strengthen long-term performance.Our Requirements:We are looking for a commercially minded, operationally strong and values-led leader who can combine strategic thinking with hands-on execution.This individual will bring the credibility, pace and judgement to lead a complex manufacturing and supply chain operation, while building the capability, systems and culture needed to support Wasabi's continued growth.The successful candidate will be an experienced senior leader from food manufacturing, supply chain or a related FMCG environment, with a strong track record of leading multi-functional operations, improving performance and delivering results across quality, service and cost.They will be confident operating at bothstrategic and operational levels, able to shape direction with the Leadership Team while staying close enough to the detail to ensure consistent delivery.They will likely be degree educated or equivalent and will bring meaningful experience across high-volume food production, planning, supply chain, logistics and operational leadership. Experience in a fast-growth, multi-channel business, including retail, grocery or franchise, would be highly advantageous.In return we provide:A great working environmentPension schemeTarget BonusRefer A Friend SchemeFree Sushi or hot food (vegan options available)50% discount in our BranchesEmployee Assistant ProgrammeHybrid working modelLong Service AwardsWagestream - a financial wellbeing benefit that lets you access your pay as you earn it in real time and manage savingsLife AssuranceElectric Vehicle Scheme through OctapusCycle To WorkFree on-site parkingA variety of discounts (shopping, food & drink, entertainment and health & fitness) through Perkbox andThe opportunity to develop your skills within a growing company.Our people make us who we are. Join a company where you'll have the opportunity to work for a growing company and build a real career.COME ROLL WITH US!TPBN1_UKTJ

Founded in 2003 Wasabi's vision is to lovingly create and serve delicious Asian food for a busy nation. Wasabi now has 42 thriving restaurants across London and major UK cities and 4 in New York and in 2019, we introduced Wasabi Home Ben to the grocery channel , launch ing exclusively in Sainsbury's . Building on that success, the grocery business broadened its reach to Tesco in September 2022, followed by exciting launches in Co-op and Morrisons in 2024. Wasabi grocery has seen phenomenal growth and is now a £62m RSV brand. Wasabi proudly stands as the No. 2 chilled ready-meal brand in the market , consistently attracting new customers to the category through an innovative East Asian range. Wasabi's menu is celebrated for its unique character, exceptional freshness, and bold flavours. Our diverse range is designed to delight a wide audience, delivering both comfort and excitement with every bite. We have an ambitious 5-year growth strategy, focusing on new restaurants, franchise partnerships, and international expansion. As we prepare for our next phase of growth and innovation, we have an incredibly exciting opportunity for a Customer Insights Manager to join our Team based in Park Royal. The Role: The incumbent will be accountable for developing and embedding a best-in-class customer and consumer insight capability across Wasabi's restaurant and grocery businesses. The role will translate customer behaviour, commercial performance, consumer trends, customer feedback and market data into clear, actionable insight that informs key commercial decisions, including product development, menu strategy, pricing, marketing investment and retail range optimisation. This role sits within the Commercial & Marketing Team, acting as the central owner of customer, consumer and market insight, ensuring insight is used consistently to shape strategy and deliver business growth. Key Responsibilities: Identify new growth opportunities through customer, consumer and market insight helping drive strategic and commercial decisions Deliver clear, actionable reporting across customer experience, brand performance, product and commercial strategy Build, manage and influence relationships with senior stakeholders across Marketing, Commercial and Operations challenging thinking and driving evidence-based decision making Lead and evolve customer feedback programmes including surveys, reviews, NPS and mystery shopping to ensure the voice of the customer informs business decisions Analyse customer and market data to identify trends, opportunities and performance drivers Partner with marketing, product and operational teams to translate insight into commercially focused recommendations Lead consumer research projects including product testing, concept testing and pricing studies to ensure the voice of the consumer is embedded in the business Track and translate brand health, consumer behaviour and market trends across restaurant and grocery channels Develop dashboards and reporting tools using multiple data sources including CRM, EPOS and digital analytics Work cross-functionally with Marketing, Operations, Finance and Commercial teams to embed insight into decision-making Manage external consumer research agencies and insight partners to ensure high-quality delivery and value Our Requirements: Previous experience in consumer insights, analytics, market research or strategy Experience within FMCG, QSR or food retail environments preferred Strong quantitative and qualitative research expertise Experience managing research agencies and insight platforms Ability to translate complex and multi-source data into clear, commercially relevant insight Comfortable with PowerBI tool, CRM platforms, digital analytics tools and customer feedback platforms. Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills Experience working in fast-paced, entrepreneurial environments Commercially curious and outcome-focused Strong analytical and structured thinking Clear and confident communicator Pragmatic and action-oriented Comfortable working with ambiguity and driving clarity In return we provide: A great working environment Pension scheme Target Bonus Refer A Friend Scheme Free Sushi or hot food (vegan options available) 50% discount in our Branches Employee Assistant Programme Hybrid working model Long Service Awards Wagestream - a financial wellbeing benefit that lets you access your pay as you earn it in real time and manage savings Life Assurance Electric Vehicle Scheme through Octapus Cycle To Work Free on-site parking A variety of discounts (shopping, food & drink, entertainment and health & fitness) through Perkbox and The opportunity to develop your skills within a growing company. Our people make us who we are. Join a company where you'll have the opportunity to work for a growing company and build a real career. COME ROLL WITH US! TPBN1_UKTJ

Business Development Manager London based £40,000-£55,000 Talent Guardian is working with a premium fresh and frozen foodservice supplier to find a driven Business Development Manager to grow their core strength: premium restaurant business across London. This is a hunting, new-business role for a commercial self-starter who's equally credible at an independent restaurant pass and in a procurement boardroom. You'll get a warm handover of a few accounts to start — but the real prize is the book you'll build. The role Grow the business across two motions: developing premium, established multi-site restaurant groups, and winning contemporary branded small-group concepts (sushi/Pan-Asian) as they emerge and scale — primarily central London, with scope to branch further where the opportunity's there. Protect and grow a warm base of accounts through regular visits, range extension and NPD Target premium, brand-led restaurant groups, building relationships with executive chefs, procurement and ops Open 3–4 new accounts a month, targeting circa £20k of new business per month Build a secondary pipeline across Mediterranean/European and other HORECA cuisines Lead tenders, pricing and supply proposals, and manage multi-site mobilisations when you win Keep an honest, disciplined CRM pipeline What we're looking for Preferably 3–5+ years of foodservice field sales, ideally into premium/luxury multi-site restaurant groups A Pan-Asian/Japanese customer base is ideal; contract catering or travel tendering is a plus, not essential Credible at group executive chef and procurement level, and in founder-level conversations with fast-growing chains Strong written skills for proposals and tenders A commercial, entrepreneurial, self-starting mindset that thrives outside a corporate environment What's on offer Competitive basic salary plus commission Company car or car allowance Field-based, predominantly London and central, with regular office catch-up days A premium product range and an autonomous, non-corporate culture

Are you an experienced Restaurant Manager with a passion for delivering exceptional customer service? We're looking for a confident and hands-on leader to manage the day-to-day operations of a busy, well-established Indian restaurant near Putney. Responsibilities: Oversee the day-to-day running of the restaurant. Lead, train, and inspire the front-of-house team. Deliver exceptional customer service and resolve guest queries professionally. Manage staff rotas, recruitment, and performance. Ensure compliance with food hygiene, health & safety, and licensing regulations. Monitor stock levels and control labour and operating costs. Work closely with senior management to maximise sales and profitability. Maintain high standards of presentation, cleanliness, and service throughout the restaurant. Requirements: Previous experience as an Assistant Manager or Restaurant Manager in a busy, restaurant. Strong leadership and people management skills. Excellent communication and organisational abilities. Commercially aware with experience managing costs and driving sales. Passionate about hospitality and delivering outstanding customer experiences. Experience within an Indian or Asian restaurant is highly desirable. Benefits: Competitive salary of £38,000£40,000 per year Opportunity to join a respected and growing restaurant business. Supportive working environment with genuine career progression opportunities. Staff meals while on duty. Ongoing training and professional development. TPBN1_UKCT