Brand & PR Manager

The Hoxton is coming to Hamburg!

The Hoxton’s second hotel in Germany is set to open in Hamburg, a city of stunning architecture criss-crossed by hundreds of canals and home to parks, cultural venues and a bustling gastronomic scene. Set as part of the exciting Alter Wall redevelopment project, The Hoxton, Hamburg will feature 188 bedrooms of varying sizes, a large lobby bar and ground floor restaurant, a beautiful rooftop restaurant and The Apartment – The Hoxton’s signature meeting and event space.

We are looking for a Brand & PR Manager to join our team at The Hoxton, Hamburg.

What you’ll do…

• Be part of the core team to launch The Hoxton in Hamburg – ensuring the hotel, our restaurants and bars and our event spaces are embraced and visited by locals, nationals and internationals alike.
• Drive innovative thinking that delivers on brand and business goals – ensuring The Hoxton is a hotspot, whether that’s for somewhere to work, eat, drink, rest or play.
• Own and manage our local PR strategy, working with the Head of Communications for The Hoxton to ensure the hotel, restaurants, bars and event spaces are always top of mind for media and influencers, as well as driving awareness of other Hoxton properties and hotels to the German media market.
• Generate content and manage our local restaurant social media channels with strategic input from our central comms team.
• Build a community of loyal Hox guests and fans – Hox Friends, Social Influencers, local professionals and opinion leaders – who support our communications strategy by constantly talking about and visiting The Hoxton and our restaurants.
• Develop local partnerships and activations in the hotel and city that reach new audiences, spread the word and help to position the brand in a new market.
• Be responsible for local communications including writing and creating emails and delivering local content for our editorial platform, The Localist on The Hoxton website.
• Deliver against the room and restaurant/bar commercial targets and work closely with the F&B, sales and revenue teams on ideas, offers and packages to achieve them.
• Own the guest journey (Hotel, F&B, The Apartment), ensuring every touch point (touch, see, hear, feel) is on brand and delivering personal and innovative experiences.
• Manage the local annual marketing and graphic design budgets, working with the GM to plan, track and manage all spend.
• Create design briefs for any and all local collateral and campaigns to submit to our central Ennismore graphic design team.

What we’re looking for…

• Someone proactive and able to work independently but likes being sociable & collaborative too.
• A creative thinker who has a track record of building lifestyle brands but also delivering business results in the German market.
• Ability to work across the entire marketing mix, with loads of PR experience and a little black book of media contacts.
• Someone who can not only make cultural partnerships happen or pull-off talked about events but can also think strategically about tactical marketing ideas to drive bookings & covers.
• A great communicator who can copywrite and manage local social media channels and email databases, growing them to become vital comms channels for us to talk to our fans & audience.https://careers.accor.com/global/en/job/brand-and-pr-manager-in-hoxton-hamburg-hamburg-germany-jid-105825