Marketing & Business Development Manager

San Diego, CA (On-site)

$75K/yr – $85K/yrManager3+ years expFull time

Posted 5 hrs ago

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Job Summary

Own and drive the multi-brand hospitality marketing program, shaping strategy, campaigns, events, social content, digital presence, operations, and analytics across the portfolio.

  • Lead multi-brand marketing strategy and brand integrity.
  • Deliver data-driven campaigns, events, partnerships, and continuous optimization.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Marketing Strategy & Brand Management - Develop and execute comprehensive marketing strategies for multiple restaurant brands and locations. - Maintain annual and seasonal marketing plans, promotional calendars, and campaign timelines. - Ensure each brand maintains a distinct identity while aligning with overall company goals. - Identify opportunities to increase traffic, guest engagement, brand awareness, and revenue. - Monitor industry, local, and hospitality trends and identify opportunities to keep our brands relevant and competitive. - Collaborate with leadership and operations teams to develop promotions, activations, and initiatives that support business goals.
  • Campaigns, Promotions & Revenue Generation - Plan and execute seasonal, promotional, and revenue-driving campaigns across the portfolio. - Develop marketing initiatives around holidays, sporting events, community events, tourism, and other key business opportunities. - Track campaign performance and use data to optimize future initiatives. - Develop and manage email marketing and CRM initiatives, including customer segmentation, retention, loyalty, and targeted promotions. - Identify opportunities to leverage customer data and marketing technology to drive repeat visits and incremental revenue.
  • Events & Business Development - Lead marketing and business development efforts for private events, holiday parties, group dining, and other revenue opportunities. - Develop relationships with local businesses, hotels, tourism organizations, community groups, influencers, media, and potential brand partners. - Identify and pursue partnership opportunities that increase awareness and drive traffic. - Help develop event concepts, promotional activations, and community initiatives across the portfolio. - Coordinate with restaurant teams to ensure marketing initiatives translate into successful on-site experiences.
  • Social Media, Content & Creative - Oversee the development and execution of social media and content strategies across all brands. - Work closely with the Social Media Manager and Graphic Designer to maintain consistent, high-quality brand content. - Develop creative briefs, campaign concepts, messaging, and content direction. - Coordinate photo and video shoots and ensure content supports current marketing priorities. - Review and approve creative assets, promotional materials, digital campaigns, and other marketing collateral. - Identify opportunities for organic and trending content that can increase reach and engagement.
  • Digital Marketing & Online Presence - Oversee website content and ensure hours, menus, promotions, events, and other information remain accurate and up to date. - Manage and optimize digital marketing channels including email, websites, social media, Google Business Profiles, Yelp, delivery platforms, and other third-party platforms. - Work with web and technology partners to troubleshoot issues and improve the guest experience. - Monitor online reputation and identify opportunities to improve guest perception and engagement.
  • Marketing Operations & Project Management - Manage the marketing calendar and prioritize projects across multiple brands and locations. - Coordinate with graphic designers, photographers, videographers, printers, web developers, agencies, and other outside vendors. - Manage marketing budgets, invoices, purchasing, and vendor relationships. - Oversee production and distribution of menus, posters, flyers, signage, digital assets, promotional materials, and other collateral. - Ensure campaigns are executed accurately and on schedule across all locations. - Work closely with restaurant managers and leadership to communicate marketing initiatives and ensure successful execution in the field.
  • Analytics & Reporting - Monitor marketing performance and key business metrics across campaigns and channels. - Analyze customer, sales, email, social, website, and campaign data to identify trends and opportunities. - Prepare regular marketing reports and communicate results, insights, and recommendations to leadership. - Use data to evaluate the effectiveness of promotions and make informed decisions about future marketing investments.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of marketing experience , preferably in hospitality, restaurants, food & beverage, lifestyle, entertainment, or a related industry.
  • Strong understanding of brand marketing, digital marketing, social media, email/CRM, events, and local marketing.
  • Excellent project management and organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple brands and priorities simultaneously.
  • A creative thinker who can develop ideas and also execute them from start to finish.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Experience managing outside vendors, creative partners, and cross-functional teams.
  • Comfortable working independently and taking ownership of projects.
  • Strong understanding of social media trends and digital marketing best practices.
  • Analytical mindset with the ability to interpret performance data and turn it into actionable recommendations.
  • Proficiency with marketing and creative tools such as Adobe Creative Suite, Canva, Mailchimp, Google Analytics, Excel, WordPress , Adentro, Marqii and similar platforms.

Preferred

  • Hospitality experience is strongly preferred.
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OMG Hospitality Group LLC

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OMG Hospitality Group was founded in 2008 by CEO Eric Leitstein on the key building blocks of innovation, initiative, leadership, and devotion to the craft. Since that time the company has greatly expanded, now operating 5 restaurants in San Diego.Leitstein’s affinity for the restaurant industry began as a teenager and carried on through his adult career, as he moved from dishwasher to server to bartender and then general manager. He carried this first-hand knowledge and passion forward into the entrepreneurial creation of OMG Hospitality Group. Uniquely strategic locations, a passion for excellent customer service, and dynamic menus complete with signature cocktails, local flavors and brilliant brews drive thousands of customers to return to every OMG location over and over. Each location prides itself on consistently exceeding customer expectations and creating a sense of family and ownership with staff and patrons alike. A strong focus on the identification, acquisition and encouragement of expressive and unique personalities is powerfully evident in the company culture--a culture with a positive and inspirational work environment that encourages out-of- the-box thinkers and thrives on community and opportunity. OMG takes great pride in each and every one of their 500+ employees, seeking to stand out in the industry with genuine care for every staff member and a clear path for employee progression and career development.OMG Hospitality Group manages operations for Union Kitchen & Tap Encinitas, Union Kitchen & Tap Gaslamp, Pacific Beach AleHouse, Backyard Kitchen & Tap, Waterbar and The Union Food Truck.

Founded in 2008
San Diego, California, USA
52 employees (3 in marketing)
1% recommend to a friend
1% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
2.7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
39%
Direct
33.2%
Referral
5%
Social
21.7%
Paid
1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~52

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
2 (4% of company)
Median Tenure
1.5 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1