Senior Manager, Brand Experience (Corporate) (Hospitality)
Job Summary
Reporting to the VP Brand Strategy & Marketing Communications, the Senior Manager, Brand Experience is responsible for developing and executing strategies that create meaningful and differentiated brand experiences across FH OpCo’s portfolio of brands.
This role focuses on designing and implementing guest-centric brand touchpoints, ensuring alignment with the FH OpCo’s vision and business objectives. This individual will oversee brand experience innovation, guest journey mapping and experiential design. Working closely with cross-functional teams, this role will oversee brand experience design ensuring a seamless and consistent brand presence of FH’s brands across all markets.
Job Description
- Develop and implement holistic brand experience strategies that enhances guest engagement and reinforces brand positioning FH OpCo’s vision, values and business objectives
- Lead experience design initiatives that drive brand differentiation across digital and physical environments for all FH brands.
- Utilise guest insights, behavioural analytics and market trends to inform experience enhancements
- Drive brand differentiation by identifying and curating guest experiences that are consistent with the brands across digital and physical touchpoints.
- Collaborate with operations, design and customer experience teams in corporate office and local properties to ensure brand consistency in service development and delivery
- Work closely with marketing, operations and digital teams to ensure brand experience alignment.
- Design and optimise end-to-end guest journeys to ensure seamless, delightful and consistent brand experiences
- Implement guest feedback loops and data-driven insights to refine brand experience strategies
- Develop initiatives that foster emotional connections between the brands and their customers
- Lead internal education and training, and brand engagement programmes to reinforce brand experience principles across teams
- Establish metrics and KPIs to assess the impact of brand experience initiatives
- Monitor market trends, competitor positioning and guest feedback to enhance brand relevance.
Key Qualification
- Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, Brand Management, or a related field. Advanced degree (MBA, MA in Communication) preferred.
- 8+ years of experience in brand management and marketing communications, or customer experience roles.
- Strong expertise in experience design, experiential marketing and guest journey mapping
- Proven track record of developing and executing brand experience strategies that drive customer engagement, loyalty and business growth.
- Strong storytelling skills with experience in experience design strategy and executive communications
- Data-driven approach to brand experience optimisation and decision-making
- Excellent leadership, collaboration and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence cross-functional teams