Marketing Communications and Events Manager -Aurora IL

Aurora, IL (On-site)

$65K/yr – $100K/yrMid Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 5 days ago

Top 1% of applicants do these two things.

The other 99% submit and hope. You're about to do something different.

Job Summary

You will own the Area marketing strategy and execution across Markets, manage the annual budget, and drive local campaigns while coordinating center-led initiatives. You will partner with Area leadership, Sales, and Center to maximize growth, brand consistency, and program impact.

  • Own and execute the Area annual marketing plan and budget across Markets.
  • Lead local campaigns, events, promotions, and alignment with center-led initiatives.
  • Collaborate with Area leadership, Sales, and Center to maximize growth and brand compliance.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Manages and develops annual marketing plan in conjunction with Area Leadership.
  • Manages Area marketing spend and budgeting within all Markets in the Area.
  • Plan, develop, coordinate, and execute marketing and sales activities such as culinary events, sales meetings, promotions/incentives, etc.
  • Area’s voice of marketing leadership for center led strategic initiative such as flyer promotions, product launches, customer and seller events, incentives and other campaign driven efforts.
  • Counsel, and provide support to, Area leadership to maximize impact of center-driven marketing programs and best practices for delivering local programs.
  • Manage marketing activities to support and drive key results; sales and profit growth, penetration (account, Scoop, and E-Commerce) and account growth.
  • Assess local sponsorship and partnership opportunities with marketing leadership. Provide assistance in obtaining items such as advertisements for local media, table tents, etc.
  • Implement and execute the center led marketing activities. Review center-led materials and make any area specific changes, such as updates to product list based on inventory availability, before distributing. Manage all aspects of distribution.
  • Develop marketing materials and communications to support Area-led activities using templates, tools and best practices provided by the Center such as local flyers, promotions and events. Manage distribution.
  • Responsible for communicating local promotional results to sales team by using Center provided analytics or working with Sales Analyst on local tracking needs.

Requirements

  • 5 years marketing experience
  • Ability to operate under pressure and tight deadlines.
  • Excellent prioritization and time management skills.
  • Sound understanding of marketing principles.
  • Ability to build and maintain excellent working partnerships and interface with a variety of internal and external resources to attain organizational goals.
  • Ability to make sound, independent decisions.
  • Proficient communication skills.
  • Able to work with various content management and online marketing systems.
  • Self-directed and highly motivated.
  • Overnight travel up to 20%

Preferred

  • An advanced internet aptitude strongly desired.
  • High level of proficiency required in the use of Microsoft Office, especially Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, as well as Microsoft Outlook; Adobe InDesign, Adobe Acrobat Professional, and Social Media applications.

Benefits

  • Benefits for this role may include health insurance, pre-tax spending accounts, retirement benefits, paid time off, short-term and long-term disability, employee stock purchase plan, and life insurance. To review available benefits, please click here: https://www.usfoods.com/careers/benefits.html
US Foods logo

US Foods

3.4 Glassdoor

US Foods is one of America’s great food companies and a leading foodservice distributor, partnering with approximately 300,000 restaurants and foodservice operators to help their businesses succeed. With 28,000 associates and more than 70 locations, US Foods provides its customers with a broad and innovative food offering and a comprehensive suite of e-commerce, technology and business solutions. US Foods is headquartered in Rosemont, IL, and generates more than $28 billion in annual revenue. Visit usfoods.com to learn more.------------Rules of Engagement Statement:We are proud to support community engagement on the US Foods LinkedIn page, and we're excited to see your comments, photos and videos. Please note that the views expressed by the community do not necessarily reflect those of US Foods.Before posting, please take a moment to read our rules for community content. We reserve the right to remove content that violates these rules.1. Don't break the law. Content that appears to break the law or that advocates for breaking the law also is not permitted.2. Be polite and courteous to everyone, even those you disagree with. This also means you may not post anything that is threatening, harassing, abusive, bullying, discriminatory, profane, sexually explicit, obscene, violent, gruesome, or similarly objectionable.3. Stay on topic for this community and dialogue. Off-topic content may include but is not limited to irrelevant or out of context material, spam, promotional content, and links to third-party sites.4. Follow LinkedIn's Terms and Conditions.5. All posts must be by a real person and from a real profile. Content from fake or anonymous profiles is not permitted.6. Our employees must also follow all of our applicable policies and guidelines, including but not limited to our Code of Conduct and Electronic Social Networking Policy.

Des Plaines, Illinois, USA
24K employees (805 in marketing)
55% recommend to a friend
47% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
896.5K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$54.6K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
25.8%
Direct
66.1%
Referral
6.1%
Social
0.4%
Paid
1.6%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~24.1K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
724 (3% of company)
Median Career Experience
15 years
Median Tenure
8.9 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
3

Funding

Total Funding
$2B
Last Raise
$20K
Grant, 9 months ago

Funding History

  • Jun 2025
    Grant • $20K
  • Sep 2024
    Post IPO Debt • $500M
  • Sep 2023
    Post IPO Debt • $1B

Recent News