Highgate Hotels

Highgate is a leading real estate investment and hospitality management company widely recognized as an innovator in the industry. Highgate is the dominant player in major U.S. gateway cities including New York, Boston, Miami, San Francisco and Honolulu, with a growing Caribbean and Latin America footprint. The hospitality forward company provides expert guidance through all stages of the property cycle, from planning and development through recapitalization or disposition. Highgate has a proven record of developing its diverse portfolio of bespoke lifestyle hotel brands, legacy brands, and independent hotels and resorts with contemporary programming and digital acumen. The company utilizes industry-leading revenue management tools that efficiently identify and predict evolving market dynamics to drive outperformance and maximize asset value. With an executive team consisting of some of the most experienced hotel management leaders, the company is a trusted partner for top ownership groups and major hotel brands. Highgate maintains corporate offices in New York, Chicago, Dallas, London, Miami, and Seattle. www.highgate.com.

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Overview

Elevation Hotel & Spa’s Brand Experience Manager will held lead the hotel’s reinvention as an immersive, experiential destination catering to an adventure-seeking traveler. This position will combine elements of brand partnership strategy and execution with tactical marketing and communications responsibilities. The Brand Experience Manager will act as the cohesive element, linking the hotel’s digital marketing and social media teams with a dynamic brand partnership initiative. The Brand Experience Manager will serve as the direct contact for executing all brand relationships as they extend across the hotel’s in-person and digital footprint.

The ideal candidate will bring a passion for the mountain lifestyle and a deep knowledge of what makes Crested Butte special. (Bonus points for loving skiing, snowboarding and/or mountain-biking!) In addition to understanding the inherent culture and draw of Crested Butte, this individual will be entrepreneurial and self-starting, passionate about building relationships and have impeccable communication skills. They will be highly collaborative, hard-working and have the ability to adapt and execute across various teams.

Responsibilities

• • Build strategy and manage all brand partnerships, influencer program, promotional initiatives.
  • Be responsible for soliciting and growing brand partnership program, ensuring partners fit brand position.
  • Oversee all brand partner initiatives such as: consistent activations, large and small-scale events, consumer giveaways, innovative programming, creative brand promotions, asset production/fabrication, and more.
  • Oversee partner assets, sweepstakes packages and other contract deliverables, ensuring all areas of partnership agreements are executed.
  • Ensure digital media, social media, hospitality and events teams are briefed and provided assets to execute brand partner deliverables.
  • Support on-the-ground events as needed
  • Effectively build, manage, and report budget status for multiple projects
  • Connect and manage individual personalities and deliverables across multiple partners and teams simultaneously.
  • Exhibit strong interpersonal and leadership skills with an aptitude to genuinely connect with all business levels (internal/external).
  • Serve as daily point of contact with brand partners, clients, influencers
  • Lead brand partner projects from ideation through completion. This includes working with both internal, external and third parties to manage all timelines through strategic planning, sourcing, logistics, implementation, and project retrospective/recap communications.
  • Take effective and professional approach to all physical and written communications; strong email communication; ability to quickly build presentations.

Qualifications

• • Passion for the adventure lifestyle. We hope you love skiing and/or snowboarding and/or action sports
  • Bachelor's degree in related field required
  • 5 years of experience in client account/project management or similar
  • Background that includes event execution, mountain resort experience and/or marketing would be considered a plus
  • Accomplished in effectively managing and executing multiple projects, accounts and partners simultaneously
  • Professional, positive and enthusiastic team player with strong interpersonal skills and support for broader company goals
  • Proven organizational skills with ability to multi-task and function in a fast-paced environment, often with changing priorities and goals
  • Experience working in a small, team-oriented environment that is responsible for numerous projects
  • Salary Range ($75,000 - $85,000)