Job Description

Find where you belong!

Be part of an exciting period of growth and transformation at Travelodge!

Travelodge is looking for a proactive and innovative Refit Product Manager to join our centrally based Product & Proposition team. You’ll play a key role in shaping the future of our hotel and bar café environments, delivering projects that enhance the guest experience and drive commercial performance.

So far this year alone, we’ve invested in 80 hotel refits, 26 bar cafés, and over 5,604 rooms, with more to come. This is a permanent role in a part of the business that’s receiving significant and ongoing investment, giving you the opportunity to make a lasting impact as we continue to transform our estate.

This is your chance to manage high-impact, customer-focused work that transforms spaces and supports our brand purpose: To help people to go and do their thing by being the Brilliant Base

What’s it all about?

As Refit Product Manager, you’ll be the product champion for the hotel and bar cafe refit program, aligning it with strategic objectives and enhancing customer experience. You’ll agree scope of works, manage cross-functional initiatives, and collaborate closely with internal and external stakeholders to bring to life our brand’s refreshed design vision. From managing project timelines to ensuring our brand standards are met across each unique location, your expertise in planning, relationship building, cost management and attention to detail will be essential. You’ll also lead operational engagement sessions and support our Property and Product teams in delivering new customer-led design solutions for our hotels. Post-project, you’ll analyse performance and feed insights into future plans.

Why Travelodge?

We believe in creating an inclusive & diverse workplace where everyone can be their true self and belong and celebrate our differences. We care about our colleagues’ wellbeing therefore, we offer a wealth of resources to ensure everyone can look after their emotional, physical, financial and work wellbeing. We call this “Better Me”.

Who will this appeal to?

This role is ideal for a strategic and organised refit, construction or new openings manager with strong project delivery experience, ideally in hospitality or retail. You’ll be confident leading complex programmes and influencing cross-functional teams. With a keen commercial acumen and a creative eye, you can balance customer needs with business objectives, driving revenue growth, cost savings and customer satisfaction. You need to be always ready to take a hands on approach, make quick problem solving decisions and are comfortable working at pace to deliver results. Strong relationship-building skills are key, along with a proactive, can-do mindset and the ability to work independently. Experience in F&B refits or brand-focused renovation projects would be a strong advantage.

What are the extra bits?

Permanent position- 37.5 hours per week

Up to £60,000 per annum depending on experience

Option of company car or car allowance

This is a field based role with typically three days out in our refit hotels and two days working from home with the ability to come to our support office in Thame if needed

● 50% personal discount for hotel bookings and great friends and family discounts too!

● Contributory pension scheme

● 25 days holiday + bank holidays, increasing with length of service

● Annual bonus (discretionary)

● Life Assurance cover

● A focus on learning and career development