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Job Summary
The Senior Director, Brand Marketing will be responsible for the national marketing calendar, including core brand strategy and value positioning, new production innovation, and value strategies to drive transactions.
The ideal candidate is an experience brand marketing leader within the restaurant industry. In addition to serving as the ‘quarterback’ driving all marketing activity across the commercial organization, he/she will lead Papa Johns US menu evolution and strategy, pipeline development, and validation, determining success metrics and targets.
The Sr. Director will be tasked with developing short and long-term brand marketing strategies and build a robust new product pipeline that successfully meets evolving guest needs and drives the Papa John's business objectives and brand affinity.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Responsible for the national marketing calendar, including core brand positioning, new production innovation, and value strategies to drive transactions
- Oversees all transaction-driving national marketing activity (promotional windows, new product launches, core menu optimization, value strategies)
- Partners with marketing channel teams (creative, media, field marketing, analytics, loyalty & CRM) to build integrated marketing plans annually, seasonally and to support the national calendar
- Leads Papa John's US menu evolution and strategy, pipeline development and validation, through Stage Gate process
- Serves as single ‘source of truth’ in marketing; responsible for strategy and stewardship of core brand proposition
- Develops commercial strategies and innovative solutions to drive transactions, with keen focus on consumer and business impact
- Partners with Cross Functional Teams to build integrated plans that drive transactions
- Results focused leader that successfully manages long term vision with short term in-market execution.
- Drive menu insights and trends and competitive menu intelligence to determine implications for Papa John's and recommend strategic and tactical responses.
- Partners with culinary team and vendor partners to conduct innovation sessions and manage innovation processes to assure valuable output.
- Cultivate an in-depth understanding of Papa John's consumer.
- Highly skilled at building collaborative, high performing, cross-functional teams.
- Engage cross-functional partners at all levels, such as Marketing, IDS, Restaurant Operations, Supply Chain, and Finance to identify and address all marketing and product project-related needs.
Everybody loves pizza, which means they also love the people who are behind the scenes working to deliver it. This is complex and challenging work – but let’s face it – it’s also pizza! If you want a fulfilling career with a company that’s always moving forward, we’re the right place.
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What We Do
Papa John's Pizza is an American restaurant company that runs the third largest take-out and pizza delivery restaurant.
Papa John's seeks people who have an entrepreneurial spirit and share our philosophy for success. Hands-on training, a clean and safe work environment, quality business practices, advancement opportunities and meaningful work combine to produce not only the best pizza, but also the best team members! Better Opportunities. Better People!
At Papa John's we call ourselves team members instead of employees because we believe it is only through a strong team we can produce the best experience for our customers. Whether at our corporate campus, distribution centers, our restaurants, or located internationally; Papa John's has a variety of positions for talented and passionate people.
Papa John's is an equal opportunity employer and provides excellent career opportunities for our entire team. Our company philosophies of promote from within and rewards based on performance are important elements of our company culture.
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