Director of Marketing - Wave Resort

Property Description:

Wave Resort, located in the picturesque beachfront community of Long Branch, New Jersey, is seeking passionate individuals to join our team! As a job applicant, you'll have the opportunity to work in a luxurious resort that offers unparalleled service and unforgettable experiences to our guests. With positions available in hospitality, guest services, food and beverage, spa, and more, there are abundant opportunities for career growth and advancement. Our resort showcases modern design, stunning ocean views, and a vibrant atmosphere, creating an exciting and dynamic work environment. As a member of the Wave Resort team, you'll have the chance to provide exceptional service to our guests, work in a beautiful coastal setting, and be a part of a renowned hospitality destination. Join us in delivering memorable moments and become a valued member of our team at Wave Resort in Long Branch, NJ!

Overview:

Perched along the shores of the beautiful Jersey Shore is hiring a dynamic, driven, and creative Director of Marketing with strong experience within the hospitality industry and knowledge of the tri-state market.

 

The Director of Marketing is a strategic leader, creative problem solver, innovative thinker, and cross-functional collaborator. The ideal candidate demonstrates strong self-management and self-leadership skills, anticipating the needs of stakeholders, proactively addressing gaps, and continually evolving marketing practices in order to remain relevant, driving desired results. While the person in this role reports to the General Manager, they are responsible for nurturing close relationships with other departments, both at the property, corporate, and ownership levels to ensure marketing strategy support needs and goals of all revenue producing areas are met.

 

In this role, the Director of Marketing is responsible for the development and execution of the property-level marketing plan consisting of strategies and campaigns promoting on-brand messaging to customers through traditional, digital, and social media channels.  The person in this role is responsible for collaborating with hotel and F&B leaders and above property team members to create thoughtful partnerships, programming and activation then integrating that content into targeted campaigns to drive consumer awareness and preference, increasing market share, and building broader asset and brand awareness.  This role focuses on showcasing property and venue programming, activation and promotions to hotel guests, local patrons, and destination visitors. 

Responsibilities:

Administrative & General

• Creates and executes annual marketing plan to budget, in consultation with hotel, restaurant, spa and other venue leaders as well as Davidson above property marketing leaders.
• Partners with operations, F&B and sales teams to execute promotions and campaigns to target in-house guests, local customers and loyal guests.
• Works with property revenue management to verify correct offer loading, verify offer is appropriately directed at relevant consumer groups.
• Aggregates and analyzes reports from agencies and combines with internal metrics and insights to formally report out on results and adjust forward marketing plan. 
• Complete required month end reports.
• Partners with operations for optimal email collection.
• Manages hotel and restaurant website content.
• Manage campaigns and data collection for F&B, spa and HR channels.
• Partners with hotel department heads on coordination of marketing of events and PR activations.
• Manages the execution of seasonal promotions by working with hotel leaders to create programming.
• Create run of show for all activations and oversee activations personally when needed.
• Travel as required.

 

Media Relations

• Manages media relations agency, ensuring the agency is fully equipped with programming needed for effective pitching and media management. 
• Reviews monthly report and holds agency accountable for reporting and results related to established Barcelona Principals report card KPIs.
• Works with agency to create compelling itineraries for writers and influencers and is available to greet or entertain each on site.
• Ensures prompt responses to reactive media inquiries.

Social Media

• Manage social media marketing budget.
• Manage social media agency, reviewing social media calendars before publishing and offering content where appropriate and needed.
• In absence of agency, manages social media channels directly.
• Prepares monthly report or repurposes agency report after digesting data, to include engagement rate, top posts, audience growth and go-forward campaigns and strategies.

Digital Marketing

• Manages digital agency to ensure that paid marketing strategies are informed with the most up to date market information and that they produce expected returns.
• Creates content for monthly email marketing campaigns; tracks and reports effectiveness.
• Reviews monthly digital report and works with agency to adjust campaigns where needed.
• Prepares monthly report or repurposes agency report after digesting data, to include return on ad spend, top referrers, top campaigns, top adwords, most visited pages, site traffic analysis and a recap of go-forward strategy and budget allocation.

Other & Traditional Marketing

• Assess the traditional and new print campaigns and manage budget accordingly.
• Create trackable offers for print campaigns whenever possible and report on effectiveness.
• Manage print deadlines and organize collaborators to meet milestone requirements.
• Manages all collateral content and creation within footprint.

Qualifications:

• Five years’ experience in hotel marketing, digital or related professional field.
• Demonstrated competency managing outside agencies.
• Demonstrated competency in copywriting.
• Basic understanding of HTML.
• Excellent time management skills.
• Strong working knowledge of Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Competency in Adobe design programs.
• Average or better knowledge of Microsoft Excel.

Benefits:

Davidson Hospitality Group is an award-winning, full-service hospitality management company overseeing hotels, restaurants, dining and entertainment venues across the US.   A trusted partner and preferred operator for Hilton, Hyatt, Kimpton, Marriott, and Margaritaville, Davidson offers a unique entrepreneurial management style and owners’ mentality that provides the individualized personal service of a small company, enhanced by the breadth and depth of skill and experience of a larger company. In keeping with the company’s heritage of delivering value, Davidson is comprised of four highly specialized operating verticals: Davidson Hotels, Pivot, Davidson Resorts and Davidson Restaurant Group.

In keeping with the company’s heritage of delivering value to its owners and team members, Davidson offers a rich benefit program with a variety of benefits designed to enrich the lives and well-being of our team members and their families.

• Multiple Tiers of Medical Coverage
• Dental & Vision Coverage
• 24/7 Teledoc service
• Free Maintenance Medications
• Pet Insurance
• Hotel Discounts
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Paid Time Off (vacation, sick, bereavement, and Holidays). 
• 401K Match

Working at Davidson is like nowhere else. It’s less of a job, more of a calling. It’s part career, part revolution. Because whatever you do here, you play a part in helping redefine the way quality hospitality is delivered to our guests, our clients, our partners, and each other.

EOE AA- Minorities/Females/Vet/Disability/Gender Identity/Sexual Orientation

Davidson Hospitality is a drug free workplace.  Pre-employment drug test and background check required.  We participate in E-Verify.

 

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Salary Range:USD $90,000.00 - USD $110,000.00 /Yr.