Director, Strategic Restaurant Marketing (Hybrid)

The role

The Director of Strategic Marketing Development will partner with sales leaders to manage significant restaurant prospects and customers. You will deliver custom sales and service messages and oversee personalized value propositions supported by data.

What you will do

• Assist in sales meetings of marketing services and capital products to national restaurant enterprises.
• Communicate multi-channel marketing campaigns and offer strategies from concept to execution to analysis.
• Create compelling stories and presentations to communicate value propositions.
• Partner with Creative Marketing to ensure visuals communicate the appropriate message.
• Partner with analysts in Finance and Data Science to ensure messages are accurate and supported by data.
• Partner across Marketing, Sales, Customer Service and Operations Leadership to drive acquisition and retention.
• Exude Rewards Network's company values.
• Deliver regular Business Reviews for customer retention.
• Source customer feedback to understand business, solution, and product needs.
• Develop understanding of the competitive environment and competitor language.

Required qualifications

• Deep and extensive understanding of the restaurant industry, specifically the business of restaurants.
• Exceptional ability to understand customer needs, position products effectively, manage objections, and design marketing solutions.
• Exceptional ability to bring clarity to complex business situations and apply frameworks to simplify a message.
• Demonstrated experience creating clear, sophisticated communication materials including presentations, summaries, analysis and insights.
• Experience interacting with senior leaders.
• Demonstrated ability to ramp quickly into ambiguous, in-flight programs and operate independently.

Nice to have

• Bachelor's degree in business, marketing, or related field
• 7+ years experience in sales, business development, marketing, or similar role
• At least 3 years working directly supporting or within the restaurant industry

Benefits

• Competitive Paid Time Off and company holidays
• Generous dining reimbursement when you dine with our restaurant clients
• 401(k) plan with a company match
• Two medical plan options- Standard PPO or High Deductible Health Plan (HSA with company match for HDHP participants)
• Partnership with Rx n Go, offering certain prescriptions for free
• Two dental plan options and a vision plan
• Flexible Spending Accounts and a pre-tax commuter benefit program
• Accident, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity Insurance Plans
• Short Term and Long Term disability
• Company-paid life insurance and AD&D insurance, supplemental employee, spouse, and child life insurance
• Employee Life Assistance Program
• Hybrid working space in our state of the art office downtown

About the company

Rewards Network is a fast-paced, restaurant-focused fintech company that connects restaurants with consumer loyalty programs. They are a leading capital provider for restaurants.