Summary: The Marketing Manager oversees the marketing function for corporate and higher education dining. You will be a critical function in supporting growth, innovation, customer, and client experiences as well as marshalling American Food & Vending and American Dining Creations' brand. You will work across a portfolio of our dining locations, supporting the entire operations team. This role spans a wide variety of activities and has a dynamic, fast pace with significant self-direction and local innovation required. This position will design, coach, and inspire location and district managers to achieve goals related to meal plan sales, retail innovation, guest engagement and social media communication and impact. This critical leadership role will also play a strong part in new sales activities and client presentations, utilizing insights and industry knowledge to create a vision for future hospitality innovation.

Responsibilities

Create and present customized vision plans to clients and senior leadership.
Monitor and analyze market and industry trends and create case studies to drive new sales.
Oversee the creation of new marketing materials and promotions and manage all social media content.
Work with marketing and project management staff to support trade shows and event planning.
Develop and lead communications strategies to strengthen brand value within our accounts while upholding brand guidelines.
Support sales/business development by updating and managing all sales content to increase profitability.
Support lead generation and social media efforts by partnering with digital marketing as the content advisor ensuring standards are met across dining locations.
Create and participate in client innovation updates, making strategic recommendations based on collected consumer insights.
Constantly improve retail growth by applying strong retail execution principles, pricing, product assortment and promotional activities.
Position requires traveling to various accounts, with 75% fieldwork.

Qualifications

5+ years of experience in Marketing Management roles with a proven track record.
Bachelor's degree in marketing, Communications, Culinary, Hospitality or Hotel Management is preferred.
Ability to work with a wide variety of internal functions including operations, IT, culinary, merchandising and design.
Independent, detail-oriented advisor with strong writing skills to create and oversee brand materials and strategic vision.
Base understanding of the financial components of contract foodservice and origins of revenue, margin, and costs.

About Us

American Food & Vending began vending operations in Ithaca, NY, over eighty years ago and has become one of the largest privately held hospitality service partners in the United States.

As a family-owned boutique company, we have evolved into a dining and catering service provider. In 2012, the second and third family generations expanded the company nationally by adding our dining division, American Dining Creations. Today we provide service to guests in 24 states, over 50 cities, and employee more than 2,000 employees.

American Food & Vending and American Dining Creations strongly focus on service, technology, partnerships, and hospitality, which is evident in everything we do. Our national ranking as one of the Top 50 Contract Management Companies highlights our commitment to excellence.

We are a company of culinary enthusiasts. Our award-winning chefs are always exploring innovative, creative, and on-trend dining and refreshment solutions. As part of our combined services, we provide café dining, mobile ordering, catering, events, grab-and-go programs, vending and refreshment solutions, advanced micro markets, coffee services, pantry services, water filtration and purification.

We are committed to enhancing the guest experience and partnering with our communities to provide outstanding service, innovation, sustainability, and customization.

American Food & Vending Offers

Weekly pay
401K with company match
Employee Assistance Program
Eligible employees offered Medical, Prescription, Dental, and Vision Plans, FSA/HSA
Ongoing training and development programs
Bonus Programs for eligible positions

American Food & Vending is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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