Chick-fil-A is hiring: Marketing Director in Bradenton

Description
The Marketing Coordinator position is primarily responsible for managing, leading, directing and coordinating all activities that contribute to revenue growth and the positive influence of the restaurant in our community. The incumbent will assist the Operator and Lead Team in directing, coordinating, improving, and managing all Marketing activities in the store with operational efficiency and effectiveness. This includes but is not limited to facilitating events, creatively preparing, and managing store organization and decoration, planning, and developing social media posts, promotion of seasonal items for sale through campaign development as well as changing menu inserts and pop material at the store.

Core Functions:

• Event planning and management
• Internally and externally markets the Chick-Fil-A brand to promote season campaigns, new product launches, and internal care for team members
• Store decor and organization
• Creates quarterly plans for seasonal activity in all three stores. Including decorations, promotional material, and general organization and cleanliness in the store
• Assesses needs for outside promotional material and ensures organized implementation of the same
• Brand growth campaign development
• Creates and develops a monthly marketing plan and campaign to facilitate brand growth which includes new product launches, corporate level, market level, and local marketing campaigns for each store
• Create content and engage followers on restaurant's social media pages
• Develops content to support local sales and marketing initiatives to sustain revenue growth
• Coordinates local store content development through store marketing representatives
• Serves stores in limited operational capacity
• Community engagement
• Sponsorships - seeks active partnerships with local agencies to promote brand representation
• Donations - caring well for the needs of our community
• Partnerships - partnering with entrepreneurs and/or organizations to engage in business development while serving our community

Requirements

• Bachelors Degree in Marketing Management or related discipline or equivalent experience
• Demonstrates excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Must be creative, energized, and highly motivated to accomplish goals
• Able to motivate and manage a team while maintaining unity
• Shows ability and confidence to take ideas from concept, through final application, and execution
• Ability to steward social media platforms that are on par with operator's vision and brand standards
• Enjoys serving others
• Ability to negotiate with character and integrity

Company Information
Located in Bradenton, FL, Chick-fil-A Cortez Plaza and Chick-fil-A Manatee are run by Nathan Hoeksema, who become a Chick-fil-A Operator in 2000 at the age of 23! While working behind the Chick-fil-A counter at age 15, Nathan was captured by the company's mission and after college, felt called to pursue Chick-fil-A as his place of mission. After 11 years of operating and seeing tremendous success in his first restaurant location, Nathan was presented with the opportunity to move to Bradenton and open his current restaurant in the fall of 2013. Since opening in 2013, the team has consecutively increased store sales with a projection to be in the top 10 stores in the entire Chick-fil-A chain by the end of 2019. Now in 2023 Cortez Plaza is in the top 3 stores in the entire chain. Also in 2023 Nathan has opened his second location: Chick-fil-A Manatee.