CORE WORK ACTIVITIES
Conducting Daily Marketing Activities that Achieve Department Goals
- Assists in region-wide coordination of rooms, food and beverage, spa, and golf promotions.
- Develops leisure marketing plan that addresses the distribution of rate offers, packages and programs designed to build occupancy.
- Maintains, updates, and manages all web sites.
- Coordinates offers and information for all publications and inserts with regard to brand loyalty reward mailings.
- Develops brochure and property collateral materials.
- Participates in all property imaging work (e.g., signage).
- Uses and interprets all reporting necessary for sound marketing recommendations, including but not limited to DMA source market reports, past guest lists (utilizing leisure rate codes) and tracking.
- Reviews and provides analysis on all website and email campaign tracking, for both individual property sites as well as corporate email campaign results and Marriott.com property reports.
- Ensures consistent marketing message is communicated in all advertising and collateral efforts.
- Manages marketing budget throughout year.
- Provides regular tracking/ROI and analysis of promotions and website/email campaigns, using industry averages for ROI calculation, and uses this knowledge in future planning.
- Tracks return on investment (ROI) of all marketing initiatives, including online, direct mail and print advertising.
- Keeps track of actual versus planned marketing budgets and provides input and recommendations as needed regarding reallocation of funding.
- Ensures consistency in individual property's voice on all guest touchpoints and marketing communications, not only following corporate graphic standards, but also on behalf of the individual property.
- Evaluates new marketing opportunities for the property.
- Ensures property is represented on all quality internet sites that have the potential of providing business.
- Works closely with respective Convention Bureaus and Chambers of Tourism.
- Uses and interprets all reporting necessary for sound marketing recommendations, including but not limited to DMA source market reports, past guest lists (utilizing leisure rate codes) and tracking.
- Reviews and provides analysis on all website and email campaign tracking, for both individual property sites as well as corporate email campaign results and Marriott.com property reports.
- Develops strategic marketing plan for property, includes group, leisure and local efforts.
- Plans and supervises all photo shoots, developing shot list while keeping goals of property and brand image in mind.
Building Successful Relationships that Generate Sales & Marketing Opportunities
- Identifies and communicates with distribution channels that can sell distress inventory to drive property occupancy.
- Provides all sales channels with creative and unique tools to assist in the sales and marketing of the property.
- Acts as liaison between corporate and individual properties in rolling out programs and making sure that properties are taking advantage of all opportunities provided through corporate.
- Works with media buyer to plan and execute advertising.
- Assists property in developing promotions for various campaigns, keeping in mind strategy and goals of promotion as well as Look No Further prerequisites.
- Assists property with materials, tracking/analysis and presentations to owners.
- Acts on behalf of property with all vendors, exacting a balance between quality work and price, requesting estimates and approving all materials as needed.
Additional Marketing Responsibilities
- Keeps detailed files and records on all matters relative to property's marketing materials (photo usage rights, vendor contracts, etc.).
- Ensures that property is following all corporate marketing guidelines.
- Approves all invoicing through MarrCom office.
