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 Bento the grocery channel, launching 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 Commercial Analyst - Restaurants to join our Finance team based in Park Royal.
The role
The Commercial Analyst – Restaurants will work closely with the Restaurant Marketing team, providing analysis and insight to support commercial decisions.
The role will support the delivery of restaurant performance and agreed budget targets on topics like pricing, range reviews, menu performance and analysis of marketing campaigns and spend.
Key to this role will be for the incumbent to be able to translate data and trends into actionable insights.
Key responsibilities
- Work with the Restaurant Marketing Director and Head of Food, supporting menu management initiatives, development and marketing activities to drive revenue and margin improvement
- Deliver internal and external pricing analysis to support future price increase decisions.
- Provide gross margin analysis at product level, including product mix, selling price, ATV, volume analysis, bundling and promotional impacts, cost price analysis and recipe change impacts.
- Periodically analyse and review range and space, identifying opportunities to maximise profit, working with the Marketing Director – Restaurants on idea generation through to execution and post review analysis.
- Analysis of ATV by product, including basket composition, identifying margin dilution as well as further opportunities for bundling and price.
- Assessment of all marketing activity in restaurants for both physical estate and delivery, to support further investment decisions and channel performance
- Develop models and analysis for future commercial analysis
- Consolidate market and competitor data and insights in order to support Wasabi’s brand and product positioning and maintain competitive advantage
Our requirements
The ideal candidate for this role would be a finance, Maths or Economics graduate with excellent commercial acumen. They will have some experience supporting commercial decisions, ideally in a QSR, casual dining or retail business.
Additionally candidates should be able to demonstrate
- A post graduate qualification, ideally in an accountancy related subject would be an advantage, but not essential
- Advanced excel skills; able to produce financial models and work accurately with large datasets
- Prior experience Business Intelligence advantageous · Experience building strong stakeholder relationships built on trust and credibility
- Pricing and cost analysis experience an advantage
- Excellent communication skills, both verbally and written, with the ability to translate analysis into business conclusions and recommendations
- Confident presenting to all levels within the business
- Attention to detail
- Organised with a flexible approach, ability to work under pressure and to meet tight deadlines.
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
- Help@Hand (a service providing health and wellbeing support)
- 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
- 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. If you're looking for an exciting challenge and this sounds like the job for you please apply today as we can't wait to hear from you.
