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Location: Godalming, Surrey (with travel to venues across London & the South East) \n Contract: 12-month maternity cover \n Start Date: Ideally 30 November 2026 \n Department: Sales & Planning \n Salary: Competitive, dependent on experience, plus performance-related bonus/commission \n \n Join One of the UK’s Leading Luxury Caterers \n At Caper & Berry, we create exceptional weddings, private celebrations and corporate events at some of the United Kingdom’s most prestigious venues. Renowned for outstanding food, impeccable service and meticulous attention to detail, we are looking for an experienced and motivated Head of Weddings & Private Events to lead our Weddings & Private Events team, overseeing both sales and planning, during a 12-month maternity cover. \n This is an exciting opportunity for an inspiring leader with a passion for luxury events, exceptional client service and commercial performance. You will work closely with a small team of sales and planning professionals in a collaborative, high-performing environment, overseeing our most prestigious wedding and private event enquiries from initial enquiry through to event handover, while playing a key role in supporting the continued growth of the business. \n \n The Role \n Reporting to the Head of Sales & Development, you will: \n\n • Lead, coach and develop the Weddings & Private Events Sales & Planning team.\n, • Drive excellence across both the sales and planning functions, improving enquiry conversion, client experience and revenue growth.\n, • Personally manage our highest-value and most complex wedding and private event enquiries.\n, • Deliver an exceptional client journey from initial enquiry through to event handover.\n, • Build and strengthen relationships with venue partners, wedding planners and key industry contacts.\n, • Identify new business opportunities and support the continued growth of the Caper & Berry brand.\n, • Work collaboratively with our chefs, operations and event management teams to ensure seamless event delivery.\n, • Contribute to the commercial strategy and ongoing development of the department.\n\n \n About You \n We are looking for someone who combines strong commercial awareness with exceptional planning skills and a genuine passion for creating extraordinary events. \n The successful candidate will bring: \n\n • At least five years’ experience in luxury weddings, private events or high-end hospitality sales and event planning.\n, • Previous leadership experience within the events industry, specifically catering. Experience in luxury event catering would be highly advantageous.\n, • A proven track record of achieving ambitious sales targets and supporting business growth.\n, • Outstanding communication, relationship-building and presentation skills.\n, • Excellent organisational skills and exceptional attention to detail.\n, • A proactive, solutions-focused approach and the ability to make informed commercial decisions.\n, • A genuine passion for luxury hospitality, exceptional food and outstanding customer experiences.\n\n \n What We Offer \n\n • Competitive salary, dependent on experience.\n, • Performance-related bonus/commission.\n, • The opportunity to lead the Weddings & Private Events Sales & Planning team within one of the United Kingdom’s most respected luxury catering businesses.\n, • A supportive, collaborative and creative working environment.\n, • Career-enhancing experience within an award-winning business.\n, • Freshly prepared staff lunch every day from our talented chefs.\n, • The opportunity to work alongside some of the country’s finest venues and event professionals.\n\n \n Working Pattern \n This is primarily an office-based role at our Surrey headquarters (GU7 2QQ) with regular client meetings, venue visits and networking events. Flexibility is important, as occasional evening and weekend attendance will be required to support key events and industry functions. \n \n Ready to Apply? \n If you are an experienced luxury events professional with a passion for sales, planning and delivering exceptional client experiences, we would love to hear from you. \n Please send your CV together with a covering letter explaining why you would be a great fit for Caper & Berry. \n Contact: Rosanna Stafford – Head of Sales & Development; rosanna@caperandberry.co.uk \n \n Caper & Berry is committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone is treated with respect and has the opportunity to thrive. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, experiences and perspectives, and we believe that a diverse team helps us deliver exceptional experiences for our clients. \n \n Full Job Description available on our website: caperandberry.co.uk/work-with-us/

Head Chef / Head of Kitchen Rokers Farmhouse Café, Worplesdon, Guildford Are you a foodie at heart with a passion for fresh, seasonal cooking and the drive to lead a successful kitchen? We're looking for a hands-on Head of Kitchen to lead our kitchen team at The Farmhouse Café, a busy independent café serving a vibrant brunch-led menu in a beautiful countryside setting. (We are currently running a limited menu while we recruit, the new Head of Kitchen will be responsible for developing an exciting new brunch-led menu, with a selection of mains, from fresh seasonal ingredients.) This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who loves creating great food but also understands that a successful kitchen is about much more than cooking. We're looking for a strong leader with commercial awareness who can balance quality, customer experience and profitability. What's in it for you? Daytime-only hours Christmas closure (we are closed for a week over the festive period) Creative freedom with menu development A supportive family-business culture Share of gratuities Hours of work: circa 7.45am - 4.30pm, 5 days per week (including Saturdays and Sundays). Average hours will be 43hrs per week (excl. breaks). Weekend working is essential. The Role You'll take full ownership of the kitchen, leading a small team (4-5 people) to deliver exceptional food and service every day. This is a genuinely hands-on role. You'll lead from the front, rolling up your sleeves and working alongside the team, setting the standard through your attitude, energy and commitment to great food. You'll create and develop seasonal menus, manage food costs and margins, control waste, and ensure the kitchen operates efficiently and profitably. Alongside leading service, you'll be responsible for the business side of the kitchen managing rotas, stock control, ordering, supplier relationships, checking and processing invoices, and ensuring labour and food costs remain in line with budget. You'll recruit, train, develop and motivate your team, and maintain excellent food safety and EHO standards. Working closely with our Front of House team, you'll help create a fantastic customer experience and play a key role in the continued success and growth of the café. About You You'll be an experienced Head Chef or Kitchen Manager who: Thrives in a fast-paced environment Loves fresh, seasonal food and great hospitality Leads by example and enjoys developing people Has strong business and financial awareness Understands menu costing, gross profit, labour management and stock control Is confident managing suppliers and processing invoices accurately Is highly organised and comfortable balancing administration with hands-on service About Us The Farmhouse Café is part of Rokers, a family business established in 1962. Situated alongside our Animal Feed, Equestrian & Country Store in Guildford, we're proud to serve high-quality food in a welcoming environment. Our kitchen team is small, friendly and hardworking, with around four team members working each shift. If you're looking for a role where you can combine your passion for food with genuine responsibility for running a successful kitchen business, we'd love to hear from you. How to Apply Please submit your CV along with a short covering note telling us a little about yourself, why this role appeals to you, and what you would bring to The Farmhouse Café. Please note that applications submitted without a covering note will not be considered. Please only apply if youre comfortable working Saturdays and Sundays. TPBN1_UKCT

The Essentials Location: Godalming, Surrey (Head-Office), Hybrid, and occasional trips into London Experience: 1–3 years' experience Reports to: Marketing Creative Director A bit about the opportunity.... This is a genuine ground-floor opportunity, three brands and a founder's platform, still being shaped, with real room for your creative fingerprints on how they look and feel. • Serial founder: Our Founder has already built and run multiple businesses, including one with 10 years of trading history behind it, so you're backing proven experience, not a first-time bet, • Guided autonomy: real freedom in execution and ideation, working with our Marketing Creative Director to keep messaging and brand identity unified across accounts, • Startup energy: small, close-knit, collaborative and friendly, not corporate, • Built-in growth: a clear career path, a great step in owning social across every account, and building your own team as we scale, • It's about initiative: no need to tick every box, just be capable, hungry, and quick to learn What You'll Do Responsibilities Core of the role: ideas, strategy, and content that performs. Channel upkeep is part of it, but most of the energy goes into creating, strategising, and directing on-brand social content. • Develop and execute a content strategy across the platforms best suited to each brand, including emerging platforms, to grow followers, engagement, and reach, • Plan, shoot, edit, and publish high-quality short-form video (Reels, Shorts, vlogs, and more), producing polished content quickly, • Monitor trends and cultural moments, and react quickly with relevant content before the moment passes, • Respond to comments and DMs, build relationships with followers, and collaborate with influencers and local partners, • Manage the full social media calendar end to end, • Analyse performance metrics (engagement, growth, conversions) using platform analytics and ContentStudio, and recommend improvements, • Produce employer branding content, competitor intelligence, and sales enablement content, • Track how our brands show up in AI search and recommendation engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews), not just traditional platforms, • Contribute strong content ideas in campaign and strategy meetings, • Use social media to build hype, grow engagement, and drive sales, • Support and encourage employee advocacy across the wider team, • Support day-to-day posting and channel management when needed Who You Are • 1–3 years in social, ideally agency or start-up background, • Hands-on: shoots and edits, not just briefs others, • Flexes across brand voices without losing your own, • Algorithm-literate, • Trend-fluent, • Pro-human, pro-AI: uses AI tools, but craft stays yours, • Self-directed and ownership-minded, • Wants the strategy seat, not just execution, • Experience working with multiple social media platforms based on target audience (Wether it be Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok or Facebook etc…) The Stack • Scheduling & planning: ContentStudio, Milanote and similar, • Creatives and creating: Adobe Creative Cloud (Premiere Pro/Rush, Photoshop, Lightroom, Illustrator etc), Express, Firefly, CapCut, • AI-assisted: Claude/ChatGPT for scripts and captions assistance, Runway/Kling/Midjourney/Nano Banana for concept work

Mechanisms Functional Manager | Space / Aerospace | Guildford | Hybrid We are seeking a Principal / Lead level Mechanical Design Engineer with electro‑mechanical or mechanisms‑based systems experience, who has experience of spacecraft engineering or other high‑reliability engineering sector (aerospace/defence). Reporting to the Head of Mechanical and Propulsion this role is responsible for overseeing the technical execution, cost, budget and delivery of project solutions. You will ensure that each project adheres to the appropriate risk profile and will guide mechanical solutions in collaboration with the Mechanism Experts. You will also be accountable for ensuring that design policies and guidelines are consistently applied. Key Tasks Work closely with Mechanisms Experts and wider mechanical engineering functions to establish and maintain team‑level policies and procedures that ensure consistent, high‑quality outputs Ensure the team possesses the electro-mechanical technical skills required to deliver current and future mechanisms projects. Review the work package managers within the team to confirm they are meeting the requirements of their work package descriptions, and that their plans are achievable. Ensure work package managers apply best practice in the execution of mechanisms work. Regularly review trend charts, performance indicators and technical outputs, and implement corrective actions where required. Work collaboratively with Project Managers, Heads of and other Functional Managers to identify and resolve resource conflicts or capability issues before they impact project progress. Ensure that key technical and project issues related to mechanisms products are being addressed promptly, coordinating closely with other functional leads as needed. Provide leadership alongside the Experts through training, mentoring and the professional development of team members, particularly in mechanism design, analysis and electro‑mechanical integration. Ensure risks associated with mechanisms and electro‑mechanical systems are identified, managed and effectively communicated to Projects and Engineering. Collaborate with PMs, Mechanical Engineering and Mechanisms Experts to ensure that mechanisms‑related project deliverables are completed at the appropriate level of technical capability, risk and cost. Identify any product development required to maintain the capability of mechanisms products/capabilities and then source the appropriate resources to ensure this can move forwards. Maintain a top-level roadmap for mechanisms and identify what resources/decisions/challenges are required to achieve it. Support of hands-on engineering and debugging mechanism hardware issues including electrical, software and component anomalies when required. Some elements of project and design work is also likely to be required.PERSON SPECIFICATION (essential requirements) Experience A successful track record in spacecraft engineering or other high‑reliability engineering sectors, ideally involving electro‑mechanical or mechanisms‑based systems. Preferably, experience in diagnosing and resolving issues across hardware, component interfaces, software interactions and firmware elements, particularly in electro‑mechanical assemblies or mechanisms. Preferably, a mechanical design background, including experience with stress‑critical components, precision tolerancing and drafting, materials selection and manufacturing methods.Knowledge and Skills Good level of management skills, preferably from a proven background Self-motivated, creative, high attention to detail A good level of technical understanding in your field Excellent communication skills Commitment to deliver Knowledge of mechanism products, mechanism components (e.g. bearings, actuators, transmissions, feedback devices) and their role within the system is ideal Desire to support and guide others Good inter-personal skills Software knowledge preferable: SolidWorks or similar; Ansys; Matlab; MS Office SkillsBenefits Highly competitive Salary dependent on experience Flexible working policies 32 days annual leave + BH Annual Company Bonus Scheme Up to 8% employer pension contribution Life Assurance (6X salary) Private Health Care Enhanced Maternity & Paternity leave Multiple Discount, Memberships schemesKey Words: Mechanisms Manager, Mechanical Design Manager, Electromechanical Manager, Electro-mechanical Manager

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