Marketing Director
Indialantic, Florida, United States
• Refreshed and defined three brand concepts.• Responsible for large company marketing direction, including promotional events, community partnerships, social media campaigns, in-store promotions, marketing collateral and loyalty programs for 8 restaurant locations covering 3 brand concepts. • Developed, planned, managed and executed special events and promotions, consisting of contracting and evaluating multiple suppliers, budgets and hundreds of personnel. Events ranged from several hundred to over 20,000 attendees.• Created and maintained the expected completion of each level of projects including defining project specification and objectives, accessing and managing resource availability and needs, budgeting, negotiating contracts and managing project timelines.• Assigned and managed expected results across multiple departments and personnel.• Planned and monitored all outside services as related to department, project and events.• Initiated and developed community and contractor relationships strategically to foster key partnerships which increased brand presence and improved personnel and community culture. • Improved systems, policies, functions, and daily operations to more effectively meet company, marketing and project goals.• Developed and managed departmental annual budgets. • Marketing projects increased end guest counts and company goals above industry averages, resulting in quarterly records for 30 months. • Developed, implemented and grew a social media program which has seen a 400% increase in followers and an over 800% increase in engagement in 18 months.