About me

Hospitality Marketing
Consultant Sydney

Hi, I’m Amy, a Sydney-based hospitality marketing consultant with over 11 years’ experience building & leading marketing functions for hospitality & consumer brands. Think hospitality marketing agency expertise, without the agency overheads.

I work with hospitality businesses that need senior marketing capability without a full-time hire; devising strategy, launching new restaurant openings, & ultimately driving revenue.

Whether you’re operating with a lean team, building marketing infrastructure from scratch, or need support getting a project over the line, I’d love to hear what you’re working on.

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Have your cake Amy Harris, hospitality marketing consultant in Sydney
Services

What I offer

Service please

A full review of your marketing: website, in-venue, CRM, paid, social, reporting. I find what's broken, what's wasted & what to double down on. You get a clear diagnosis before any action is taken.

Annual marketing plan, campaign calendar, channel strategy & budget allocation, built around your commercial goals.

Full NSO marketing framework: website live, SEO foundations in place, email list building pre-opening, & a campaign plan to fill your venue.

I audit your existing processes, then build the briefing process, systems & AI workflows to support your marketing, & train your team to use them. The result: on-brand output at speed.

Database strategy, audience segmentation & lifecycle automation, built to drive repeat visits & revenue from your existing guest list.

Ongoing senior marketing leadership on a part-time basis: strategy, team management, agency oversight & commercial reporting. The capability of a full-time CMO, without the full-time cost or a hospitality marketing agency retainer.

Not every business fits a standard brief. If you need something specific (a one-off project, a short-term sprint, or a combination of the above), get in touch & we’ll work out the right shape together.

From the horse’s mouth Clients & Experience

Clients

Sydney, Australia
Oct 2026 - date
Building segmentation & automation to drive repeat visits.

Fractional marketing consultant for the group behind Bistecca, The Gidley, Alfie's & Lottie. Building the CRM segmentation architecture & lifecycle automation to convert first-time guests into regulars & drive frequency across the portfolio.

London, UK
Sep 2026 - date
May - Oct 2025
Built AI content engine powering every channel.

Built an AI-powered content engine that handles the reporting & competitor analysis, then turns those insights into SEO’d blogs, social posts, LinkedIn content & emails. Alongside it: Google Ads management, an AI reporting dashboard, plus the acquisition funnel, lead magnets & CRM behind their subscription model.

Sydney, Australia
Oct 2025 - Sep 2026
Reversed declining performance across five venues in three months.

Group Director of Marketing for Matteo (CBD & Double Bay), Tanuki, The Lobo & Osborn House. Joined with no marketing function in place & declining traffic across all venues. Built the full infrastructure from scratch (team, reporting, GA4, brand frameworks, campaign calendar) while delivering commercial results from week one.

+464%
Christmas revenue YOY
+37.2%
Web traffic YOY
+515%
Black Fri rev YOY
+24%
Melbourne Cup YOY
UK
Oct 2025
Gift card CRM automation strategy.

Delivered a gift card CRM automation strategy for the 150-strong pub & hotel group.

London, UK
Jun - Sep 2025
Optimised the bookings platform & conversion journey.

Audited, optimised & grew the pre-bookings channel. Overhauled the platform, redesigned the conversion journey, ran targeted campaigns to the existing database & delivered training to the team.

+58.9%
Pre-booked sales LFL within 3 months
May - Jun 2025
Delivered Brand Bible.

Delivered a full brand identity project, from market research through to the final Brand Bible.

London, UK · 9 years
Apr 2015 - Feb 2022
Feb 2023 - May 2025
Grew group from one to 21 sites & £35.1m revenue.

Built the entire marketing function as the business scaled. As Group Head of Marketing & Sales, owned a £500k budget, launched 8 new sites all profitable within three months & grew group bookings into a major revenue stream.

+40%
Group bookings LFL
1M+
CRM subscribers
100k
Instagram followers
+12.9%
Revenue growth (FY25)
May 2025
Digital lead for new site opening.

Led digital for the NSO, getting the new site ranking & found from the first month.

10
Keywords to page 1
11.4k
Impressions in month one
15.4%
Keyword CTR
UK
Nov 2022 - Feb 2023
Growth, acquisition & retention lead.

Managed paid media & SEO for the restaurant group, & built the CRM & loyalty automation from the ground up, linking the in-store loyalty experience with the digital journey to bring guests back more often.

20
Keywords to page 1
29p
CPC
£1.27
Cost per conversion
London, UK
Nov 2022 - Feb 2023
Fractional Head of Marketing.

Fractional Head of Marketing engagement for the restaurants, covering full marketing strategy, campaign delivery & digital channel management. Drove significant revenue growth through a combination of CRM, paid media, SEO & brand repositioning.

+35%
LFL sales growth
London, UK
Feb 2022 - Feb 2023
Overhauled systems, reporting & processes to fix & scale marketing.

Head of Marketing & Events for a portfolio of 9 pub & bar brands. Restructured the marketing & sales function, overhauled systems, reporting & processes, & delivered drinks partnership activations across all venues.

+140%
Christmas groups
+120%
Sports bookings
24
P1 keywords
+71%
Web users
+72%
Instagram
36
Press features
May 2020 - Nov 2021
Full website & SEO audit & rebuild.

For the online brownie delivery brand: fixed the website, rebuilt the UX, site map & product pages, & took 30 target keywords to page 1. Set up reporting & templates so the team could keep it running.

30
Keywords to page 1
Sonya Restaurant
Dec 2022 - Feb 2023
Fractional Marketing Support.

Plug-in marketing support covering graphic design, EDMs, automation builds, press releases & influencer relationships.

May 2020 - Nov 2021
Member acquisition strategy.

Member acquisition strategy, ClassPass-to-member conversion & fractional marketing support.

Get in touch

Looking for a hospitality marketing agency? Tell me what you're working on & I'll be honest about whether I can help, & how.

Email me
& eat it too.