Regional Marketing Manager
At a glance
Manager-level General Marketing role at Efet. Johannesburg · full-time.
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What you'll do
- Set hotel messaging and positioning, shaping marketing strategy around customer needs and each property's business mix
- Create yearly marketing plans and budgets with property leaders, then put the agreed plans into action
- Support sales teams across business travel, group and luxury segments, including catering promotions and menu design
- Steer consumer marketing materials across websites, advertising, hotel collateral and sales tools
- Research competitors and service concepts, coordinate agency support, and use revenue data to guide decisions
What you bring
- You bring experience developing and delivering strategic and tactical marketing plans
- You can work with commercial, revenue and property teams to connect marketing choices with hotel performance
Who this fits
This manager role suits someone who can direct regional hotel marketing while partnering with commercial, revenue and on-property teams. The position is on-site in Johannesburg.
From the employer
Exceptional Hospitality Starts with You
Picture yourself brightening someone’s day. When you join our corporate team, that’s exactly what you’ll do every time you come to work! As a Regional Marketing Manager, you’re spreading the light and warmth of hospitality by delivering memorable experiences that make the stay for every guest.
Here's what you'll do during a typical day:
Branding & Positioning: Establishes all messaging, positioning and marketing strategies, understanding the impact to our hotels' business mix, customer, and commercial strategy. Also delivers content and messaging that meets brand standards. Successfully develop and execute the strategic and tactical elements of the annual marketing plan.
Plan & Budget: Develop strategic marketing plans and establish annual marketing budgets along with on-property leadership.
B2B Sales & Catering Marketing Support: Collaborate with commercial teams to provide marketing support to all sales-impacted market segments, including but not limited to, BT (Business Transient) accounts, GDS, B2B Groups, and Luxury Consortia. Liaison with C&E (Catering & Events) Team to support menu design and B2B marketing efforts for local and group catering.
Market Research: conduct market-level research, competitive set studies, and paid marketing surveys to test current and/or new service levels and product concepts.
Content & Asset Strategy: Manages the strategic direction on all consumer-facing marketing materials, including but not limited to: Website Content, 3rd Party Sites, Digital & Print Advertising, On-Property & In-Room Collateral, and Sales Tools.
Agency Management: Responsible for supporting hotels and regional agency vetting process, agency relationship / management, and ensuring agency alignment to the wider strategic plan and goals. Agencies may include a social media agency, creative agency, PR agency, and/or media buying agency.
Reporting: Works with Revenue Management to utilize data to make strategic decisions focused on optimizing performance.
Hotel-property Support: Build close alignment with on-property teams, and support in recruiting, training and developing on-property marketing teams to ensure a strong marketing talent pool across the region.
What It Takes to Make the Stay
At Hilton, our core values define what it takes to succeed here and guide the qualities we look for in every team member:
A passion for spreading the light and warmth of Hospitality. Acting with Integrity and always doing the right thing. Inspiring others through Leadership. A belief that Teamwork drives the best outcomes. A sense of Ownership and accountability. And a focus on the Now, bringing urgency and discipline to every moment, knowing it can make a lasting impact.