JOB SUMMARY The Digital Marketing cum Marketing and Communications Manager is part of an important team that creates and executes property-level communications to our customers. Under the leadership of the Director of Marketing and Communication, this role promotes on-brand messaging to customers through traditional, digital, and social media channels all with the goal of enhancing the image of the hotel. This role helps build direct marketing plans, targeted campaigns, and activated channels to the end of driving consumer awareness and preference, increasing market share, and building broader portfolio and brand awareness. This role focuses on showcasing Food and Beverage promotions, both to hotel guests and to local patrons. As part of the Marketing and Communication team, this role is fully connected into resources in their region; Marketing and Communication Managers liaise and build deep partnerships with their regional eCommerce and Marketing teams to verify all local, social, and digital marketing efforts are effectively integrated with the selling efforts for the organization. This role also gets to do a little bit of everything, from balancing traditional and digital marketing and eCommerce activities to contributing to public relations (PR) activities for the hotel. Success is measured by how well they help drive the sales and revenue strategy of the property, social media engagement and also by how effectively leveraged the resources around them are to create truly compelling marketing and communications campaigns. CANDIDATE PROFILE Education and Experience Required: • 2-year degree from an accredited university in Marketing, Public Relations, Business Administration or related major and 4 years experience in the sales, marketing, digital or related professional area; hospitality marketing or digital advertising experience preferred OR • 4-year bachelor's degree in Marketing, Public Relations, Business, or related major; 2 years experience in the sales, marketing, digital or related professional area; hospitality marketing or digital advertising agency experience preferred. CORE WORK ACTIVITIES General • Assists and manages the development, co-ordination and execution of all communications activities with a strong emphasis on property F&B promotions and campaigns. • Helps with the publication of hotel's newsletter(s). • Supports communications duties and functions as deemed necessary. • Assists in the liaison and execution of joint F&B promotions. • Works with eCommerce to verify the Hotel's website and related websites are updated on a regular basis. • Partners with Director of Marketing to create marketing plan aligned to hotel sales and revenue strategy. • Provides training and marketing leadership and act as a marketing subject matter expert for GMs, Sales Leaders and Managers, and Revenue leaders. • Coordinates with property and above property eCommerce and Revenue Management teams to report success of property marketing and eCommerce performance. • Keeps abreast of competition and its collateral, advertising, and marketing efforts and constantly evolving digital and marketing trends. Digital Marketing responsibilities : • Manage the development and execution of regional digital marketing programs, including SEM/SEO, marketing automation, social media, website and online advertising campaigns. • Evaluate the end-to-end customer experience to identify and execute campaigns that drive customer acquisition, maximize revenue, and improve retention. • Provide analysis and reporting on digital projects/campaigns and placements, website traffic, social media impression and email campaigns. • Collaborate with creative & digital team and regional marketing teams to develop digital marketing activities to support campaign strategies and business goals. • Keep abreast of new social media sites, web technologies, and digital marketing trends and implement these new technologies to enhance brand awareness in the digital space. • Support and execute the B2B digital demand generation strategy, including development with all inbound and outbound tactics, including emails, landing pages, forms and workflows. Public Relations and Visual Asset Management • Develops a comprehensive PR plan per quarter along with agency and executes post sign-off from GM. • Maintains a comprehensive list of local media contacts, with particular emphasis on food critics and influencers. • Writes and distributes all press releases for property events, promotions, and outlets. • Manages the execution of hotel sponsored events, community/government relations activities, and press promotional activities. • Supports pull through of impactful PR strategy & activities to drive quality press coverage through media engagement, in alignment with communications objectives. • Verifies the news clippings and other online, print, and social media mention report is completed on a monthly basis for property distribution. • Manages external vendors and media agencies; works with agency partners and continent PR leader to identify strategic media buys for their hotel(s). • Surfaces and vets PR leads from the continent PR Leader regarding which are the best media to promote the hotel. • Supports the co-ordination of photography for F&B advertising, collateral and public relations purposes between the hotel, advertising agency and the regional field marketing teams. • Manages photo shoots for seasonal or festive promotions in partnership with the cluster or area marketing team. • Acts as central point of contact for regionally approved local photographers for food, amenity, and property imagery; coordinates with area or cluster marketing to verify all photography adheres to brand voice. • Verifies all collateral is as per brand standard guidelines and in compliance with Brand Standard Audit (BSA). Direct Marketing and Collateral Development • Coordinates and executes Hotel and F&B printed materials. • Controls quantity and inventory of all Hotel marketing collateral and verifies copies are filed in a comprehensive manner. • Assists in the production of all property, F&B display, and temporary signage in hotel public areas. • Promotes collection of competitors collateral and publicity on a monthly basis. • Manages the execution of F&B direct marketing activities.
