Responsibilities

• Lead all marketing initiatives for client portfolio.
• Travel up to 10% to support additional client locations in West and Midwest.
• Develop marketing plans, new strategies and tactics for promoting existing or new locations to enhance sales and customer satisfaction.
• Lead visual storytelling vision and strategy development.
• Manage marketing budget, in alignment with client KPI’s and portfolio budget.
• Foster a collaborative and high-performance team culture, encouraging innovation, growth, development and continuous improvement.
• Oversee health & wellness initiatives and programming to also include nutritional messaging
• Support operation teams across employee dining solutions (cafes, food hall, restaurant, coffee and self-checkout markets), manufacturing services, campus catering and conference service management.
• Partner with account leadership team to support specific needs that drive measurable results across the client locations.
• Bring creative and innovative ideas to marketing strategy and execution that will drive the business forward in café and catering operations.

Requirements

• A minimum of 7 years of marketing or food service management experience, with a proven record of success and effective performance.
• A bachelor’s degree in marketing, business, or hospitality management is highly preferred.
• Experience in contracted dining service and account management is highly desired.
• Demonstrated ability to think creatively and strategically.
• Experience or proven track record to work optimally in a fast-paced environment with internal and external partners.
• Must have strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Must have excellent interpersonal skills including presentation, public speaking, and client interaction skills.
• Exemplify being well-organized, detail-oriented, and having strong process management and organizational skills.
• Must be able to efficiently utilize social media and understand digital marketing.
• Great time management skills and self-discipline, ability to ensure timely delivery of all projects and initiatives.

Preferred

• Proficient knowledge of Adobe InDesign is preferred.