FIELD MARKETING DIRECTOR - REMOTE - NORTHEAST/MUST RESIDE IN CT or NY/LONG ISLAND/WESTCHESTER COUNTY

Job Summary

Chartwells Higher Ed is seeking a bold, strategic, and inspiring Regional Director of Marketing to ignite growth, spark innovation, and elevate the customer experience across Connecticut, Long Island, New York, and New Jersey. This region is one of the most influential and opportunity‑rich markets in the country—where diverse communities, iconic institutions, and fast‑moving trends create the perfect landscape for a marketing leader who thrives on impact.

In this high‑visibility role, you’ll serve as the region’s brand champion, steering marketing initiatives that strengthen our presence, accelerate performance, and bring our story to life in meaningful ways.

You’ll mentor and energize a talented team of unit‑ and district‑level marketing managers, empowering them to excel in meal plan growth, retail innovation, guest engagement, and social media strategy. If you’re ready to shape the future of regional marketing in one of the most dynamic corners of the Northeast and leave a lasting mark, we want to hear from you.

This is a REMOTE position that MUST reside in CT, Long Island or Westchester County, NY.  
 
This position will require 75% travel within the region with limited overnight travel. 
 
Key Responsibilities:

• Serve as part of the leadership team who presents our brand and campus experience for new business and client retention opportunities.
• Create and present vision plans to implement innovation for campus partners applying a customized approach to each.
• Lead social media as the content advisor and standards keeper across campus locations in the regional geography that highlights key brand messaging and campus success stories on behalf of our clients.
• Act as an insight collection and curation hub, providing a thought-leadership position within our industry and on behalf of our clients.
• Create and participate in client innovation updates, making strategic recommendations based on collected consumer insights.
• Drive innovative sales marketing for campus meal-plans and on-going improvement, as reported through senior leadership updates.
• Constantly improve retail growth by applying strong retail execution principles, pricing, product assortment and promotional activities.

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Bachelors degree required, Masters preferred. Culinary, hospitality or hotel management degree is desirable.
• Experience with B2C marketing program development, ideally with a background in B2B marketing as well.  (including, product, promotion, price, placement and positioning).
• Ability to work with a wide variety of internal functions including purchasing, culinary, merchandising and design and build.
• A background understanding of operations which enables field-friendly and executable development.
• Interpersonal skills which support the ability to influence without direct authority, holding standards of new programs high and ensuring field execution.
• Strong presentation skills and the ability to adjust content across stakeholders from C-suite level to field and line workers.
• Detail oriented with strong writing skills to create and steward brand materials and voice.
• Base understanding of the financial components of contract foodservice and origins of revenue, margin, costs and risks.