DIRECTOR OF DIGITAL MARKETING

Twenty Four Seven Hotels is currently seeking an experienced hospitality professional to lead the Digital Marketing Team as the Director of Digital Marketing. This position leads to an end-to-end digital strategy across ecommerce, owned, earned and paid media. This role is both strategic and hands-on, ideal for a leader who thrives in big-picture planning and day-to-day execution. You'll co-lead brand and digital planning alongside marketing leadership and commercial strategy leadership while being responsible for developing, implementing and optimizing digital marketing initiatives to accelerate growth, drive revenue and enhance customer acquisition across our portfolio of properties while aligning with company objectives.

As a company leader this position will assist in crafting inspired workplaces that enable our Associates to deliver kick-ass guest experiences and maximize investor returns! This could be the perfect opportunity to advance your career with a growing and exciting hotel management company!

Wage listed is based in Southern California. Open to remote based with salary based on market.

Job Responsibilities:

• Manage a high-performing internal team and agency partners
• Uphold and be accountable to department goals, objectives and processes
• Stay at the forefront of digital marketing trends and best practices (in hospitality and beyond); guide the department to implement innovative strategies to maintain a competitive edge
• Foster a team environment of continuous improvement
• Onboard and train Digital Marketing team new hires
• Collaborate with company leaders and cross-department teams to provide marketing support and ensure cohesive strategies and initiatives to support company objectives
• Provide communication, training and education to General Managers and Sales Leaders to raise their awareness and understanding of Digital Marketing
• Own digital budget forecasting, allocation, and vendor management
• Analyze hotel-specific needs and create strategies and tactics for increasing revenue portfolio-wide and for a dedicated portion of the portfolio
• Discuss trends and sales strategy, review results from the prior month and determine upcoming events and action plans for occupancy and RevPAR maximization for future dates
• Develop, manage and optimize integrated digital marketing campaigns and tactics such as programmatic display, retargeting, paid search and paid social
• Develop and implement location-specific strategies to meet and exceed goals in the areas of revenue generation and market share performance
• Manage spend budgets and pacing to provide ongoing recommendations for optimizations, tactics and channels
• Manage a well-balanced distribution strategy among direct channels and OTAs to optimize channel mix
• Collaborate with Revenue teams to drive fair share on OTAs and promote packages and offers through Travel Ads and co-op campaigns
• Develops and manages standalone hotel websites to drive hotel awareness and direct bookings
• Monitors and maximizes performance of brand websites
• Regularly audit each hotel's online presence to ensure all third-party listings are optimized, visible, accurate, up to date, on-brand and engaging
• Execute SEO tactics to maximize traffic from search engines and improve ranking
• Perform regular search audits to gauge each hotel's visibility on major search engines and information gathering services including technical website analysis, competitive/keyword research and link analysis
• Establish KPIs to measure the effectiveness of digital marketing initiatives and identify areas of improvement including actionable recommendations
• Own digital reporting and insights across all channels
• Regularly report on performance through monthly and quarterly reports to company leadership and hotel stakeholders
• Attend monthly P+L calls and regular calls with stakeholders to advise on marketing performance and build relationships
• Identify opportunities to scale innovation, AI tools, and automation

Job Requirements:

• 5-7 years of experience in performance marketing roles, specifically to hospitality industry
• Fully versed in hotel distribution channels, previous experience with major hospitality brands (Marriott, Hilton, Choice, etc.) preferred
• Proven track record of developing digital marketing strategies, driving significant growth in customer acquisition and revenue
• Excellent leadership, project management, and communication skills
• Strategic problem-solving abilities and a growth mindset
• Minimum of 2 years directly supervising other associates
• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, or related field or work equivalent experience
• Past e-commerce responsibilities and demonstrative experience with tracking growth and generating analytical reporting
• Experience managing multiple brand entities and key hotel markets from both a creative and analytical standpoint
• Highly organized with strong communication skills
• Collaborative style to accomplishing goals
• High attention to detail and ability to multi-task required
• Ability to build positive relationship with internal customers and stakeholders
• Travel to assigned hotels and corporate office periodically for meetings and other business activities as needed

Our Perks:

Highly competitive salary with achievable incentive plan

Medical, Dental, Vision, Ancillary Benefits, 401K

Paid Time Off, Job Training, Opportunity for Advancement, Associate Referral Program, Hotel Discounts

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ABOUT US

24seven Hotels is a premium-branded lifestyle and select-service-focused hotel management company that believes better is always possible-for our investors, our partners, our associates and our guests. We operate in a sweet spot-large enough to be well-resourced and effective; small and specialized enough to offer accessibility and expertise in operations, investment and development. As a company, we value one-on-one relationships above all else. Whether you're an associate, a partner or an investor/owner, we're here for you-day in and day out. Ensuring our associates are able to successfully grow in their careers, and our owners are able to successfully grow their investment. Our hotel brand partners include Marriott, Hilton, Hyatt, IHG and Choice.

For more information on Twenty Four Seven Hotels, visit www.247hotels.com. Instagram: @247hotels Facebook: @247hotels

Twenty Four Seven Hotels is an equal opportunity employer committed to hiring a diverse workforce and sustaining an inclusive culture. Twenty Four Seven Hotels does not discriminate on the basis of disability, veteran status or any other basis protected under federal, state or local laws.

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