Senior Manager, Lifestyle Food and Beverage Frankfort, KY

Senior Manager, Lifestyle Food and Beverage – Frankfort, KY

This role will be based at one of our corporate offices in New York City, NY, with the specific location to be determined.

This is your chance to be part of an in-house Brands team of industry experts in the domains of hospitality, brand management, innovation, food and beverage, wellness, owner relations, and more, for all of Hilton's unique brands! As a Senior Manager Lifestyle F&B, you will support the team that leads our brands with the steadfast goal of strengthening and growing the Hilton portfolio.

On the Lifestyle team reporting to the Director of Lifestyle F&B, you will support with F&B project programming and content, brand creative assets, programs collateral, performance analytics (including hotel F&B operational performance), financial performance, and project pipelines.

Hilton is proud to support the mental and physical wellbeing of all Team Members so they can Thrive personally and professionally in a diverse and inclusive environment, thanks to programs and benefits such as:

• Go Hilton travel program: 100 nights of discounted travel with room rates as low as $40/night
• Hilton Shares:
  Our employee stock purchase program (ESPP) – you can purchase Hilton shares at a 15 percent discount
• Paid parental leave for eligible Team Members, including partners and adoptive parents
• Mental health resources including free counseling through our Employee Assistance Program
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Learn more about the rest of our benefits

At Hilton, we believe every Team Member is a leader. We are committed to offering leadership development opportunities and programs through every step of a Team Member’s career journey and at every level, both in our hotels and across corporate.

Your role is important and below are some of the fundamental job duties that make your work unique.

• Conduct market research to support the future of F&B at Hilton, including the production of market studies, presentations, and communications tools/aides.
• Contribute to the global rollout of proprietary project tracking (rollout of our reporting tool) and provide project and departmental updates in the Americas.
• Build relationships with third-party vendors to ensure quality control and timely partner project delivery.
• Identify and recommend third-party business partners in design, electronic media, and operational brand partnerships. You will report departmental expenditures of such partners and compare the budget input to the results achieved.
• Assist the Director of Brand Food & Beverage Development - Americas with creative development and presentation support.

• Ownership, Asset management, Third Party Operators, Management Groups and Branding Companies, and in-house Stir Creative collection will be daily interactions.
• Work streams in collaboration with the following teams:
  Brand leaders, Design, Architecture and Design, and Marketing Teams will be working groups for project management work.

• Manage the pipeline of incoming hotels (restaurants and bars) to drive best practices to influence world‑class food and beverage within our Lifestyle restaurants and bars.
• Project management of detailed programming for all food and beverage spaces within the hotel pipeline.
• Third-party management to achieve the interest of amazing food and beverage and Ownership interests.
• Design protocols for programming initiatives for marketing, partnerships, and strategic programming efforts.

• Five (5) years working in the Food and Beverage industry
• One (1) year managing partner and vendor relationships
• Working knowledge in Food and Beverage program development
• Up to 30% travel

• BA/BS Bachelor's Degree
• Three to five (3-5) openings in either Restaurants, Bars, or Hotels *
• Creative, design, or advisory-related work experience in food and beverage *
• Proficiency in menu programming and planning
• Working knowledge in InDesign, Adobe Suite or AutoCAD