Local Marketing & Catering Sales Coordinator

About the Role

Fuku is seeking an energetic, organized Local Marketing & Catering Sales Coordinator to grow local brand awareness, restaurant traffic, and catering and events sales across South Florida. This role blends local store marketing and catering sales. You will spend much of your time out in the community, building relationships, bringing local marketing ideas to life, and turning conversations into catering and event orders. Reporting to the Chief Brand Officer, you will work closely with Brand, Operations, restaurant General Managers, and Finance. Success in this role comes from equal parts curiosity, hustle, hospitality, and follow-through. This is an early-career role for a self-starter who enjoys meeting people, thinks like an operator, and loves turning ideas into measurable results.

Work Location: South Florida region, prioritizing candidates in the Miami metropolitan area or surrounding communities. Regular travel is required between Fuku restaurant locations (Coral Gables and West Palm Beach), community events, client meetings, and catering events.

Key Responsibilities

Local Store Marketing & Brand Awareness

• Grow awareness and traffic at both restaurants by building real connections in the communities.
• Build relationships with businesses, schools, offices, hotels, residential communities, and local organizations.
• Develop and execute local promotions and partnerships.
• Coordinate community events, sampling, sponsorships, influencer visits, and grassroots marketing activities.
• Identify local stories, events, and community moments for social media and marketing content.

Catering & Events Sales

• Grow catering and events sales by finding new opportunities and following them through to a booked order.
• Identify catering and event prospects and conduct consistent outreach through calls, emails, visits, tastings, and local networking.
• Prepare proposals, follow up on leads, and convert opportunities into catering and event orders.
• Serve as a friendly, responsive point of contact for catering guests.
• Track outreach, leads, catering sales, promotions, and results.

Execution & Operations Support

• Ensure every order and activation is set up for success by partnering with General Managers to confirm catering orders, events, and promotions fit restaurant capacity and staffing.
• Hand off orders with clear, accurate details for restaurant teams to execute.
• Enter and update catering orders accurately in ordering and tracking tools.
• Partner with Finance on catering invoicing, payment follow-up, and tracking spend.
• Share guest and restaurant team feedback to improve catering and local marketing operations.

Cross-Functional Partnership

• Work closely with the Brand team to align local activity with brand standards.
• Build strong working relationships with Operations, Training, and General Managers.
• Communicate proactively across Brand, Operations, Finance, and restaurant teams.
• Visit both locations regularly and represent Fuku in the community.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Skills:
• Strong operations mindset: detail-oriented, thinks through logistics, timing, and restaurant capacity.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills.
• Organized, self-motivated, and able to manage multiple projects.
• Comfortable working with numbers for tracking leads, sales, and spend.
• Familiarity with social media and office productivity tools (Google Workspace or Microsoft Office).
• Familiarity with a CRM, sales tracking system, or Toast is a plus.
• Bilingual English/Spanish is a plus.
• Valid driver's license and reliable transportation.
• Ability to travel regularly between Coral Gables, West Palm Beach, and throughout South Florida.
• This position will require some nights, weekends, and holidays.

Qualifications

• Recent graduate or early-career candidate with a degree in hospitality, marketing, business, communications, or a related field; relevant experience may also qualify.
• Experience in a restaurant, hospitality, events, or other guest-facing operational environment is highly valued.
• Exposure to sales, marketing, catering, or community outreach, including internships or part-time roles, is a plus.

Pay Range: 70,000 - 75,000 USD per year (West Palm Beach, FL)