Job Description
As the Marketing Manager - Culinary Programs, you will serve at the intersection of culinary innovation, brand storytelling, and guest experience, partnering directly with Aramark's culinary, operations, and marketing leaders. Your work will be seen, felt, and experienced by millions of guests traveling throughout the United States.
This is a rare opportunity to shape the future of on-board dining for one of the most recognized transportation brands in the United States. You will help bring food programs to life through compelling visuals, menus, signage, digital content, and storytelling, translating consumer insights and culinary vision into clear, engaging customer-facing experiences. This position will influence how guests experience food on one of the most traveled rail networks in the country, while leveraging the full scale, creativity, and resources of Aramark.
Backed by Aramark's global culinary expertise and operational scale, this role blends creative marketing, food, brand, and guest experience on a national scale, with direct ownership over how millions of travelers experience on-board dining. with real-world execution.
Why Youll Love The Role
This role is built for someone who believes food is culture, experience, and brand, not just product. You will help define how millions of guests experience dining on one of the most recognizable rail networks in the country, partnering directly with chefs and operators to turn culinary ideas into tangible, guest-facing moments.
With the scale of Aramark behind you and the visibility of the platform in front of you, your work will shape menus, storytelling, and experiences that are executed daily, not theorized. If you are driven by food, energized by collaboration, and ready to see your ideas come to life at scale, this role offers a rare opportunity to leave a visible, lasting mark on a national culinary program.
This role offers meaningful exposure to senior Aramark leadership, with clear pathways into broader culinary, brand, or enterprise marketing leadership roles.
Compensation: This role offers a competitive salary aligned with senior-level marketing roles, comprehensive benefits, and strong long-term growth potential.
Job Responsibilities
Bring Culinary Concepts to Life
Drive menu innovation, product storytelling, and First Class culinary experiences across Aramarks Food & Beverage operation.
Translate culinary vision into menus, signage, service guides, digital boards, videos, and promotional materials.
Lead Integrated Marketing Execution
Develop and execute marketing materials, presentations, and client-facing collateral that elevate program visibility and guest engagement.
Partner on campaign development, seasonal promotions, limited-time offers (LTOs), and new program launches.
Work across physical and digital guest touchpoints including on-board digital menu boards, print collateral, video content, promotional campaigns, and emerging experiential formats.
Partner Across a Broad Stakeholder Network
Collaborate closely with Culinary Development Chefs, Operations, Supply Chain, and the Business Resource Center (BRC) to ensure accuracy, alignment, and scalability.
Build strong working relationships with Aramark Marketing, external chefs, restaurant collaborators, and brand partners.
Turn Insights into Impact
Analyze consumer insights, regional and NEC dining trends, and competitive landscapes to inform menus, signage, and guest communications.
Lead trend research across food, beverage, design, and hospitality.
Drive Clarity and Consistency
Prepare and deliver polished presentations for stakeholders, including menu previews, promotional updates, and program summaries.
Manage timelines, track deliverables, and coordinate multiple workstreams simultaneously
Success in this role means launching compelling culinary programs that are clearly communicated, operationally executable, and consistently experienced by guests across the network.
Qualifications
Education
About Aramark
Our Mission
Rooted in service and united by our purpose, we strive to do great things for each other, our partners, our communities, and our planet.
At Aramark, we believe that every employee should enjoy equal employment opportunity and be free to participate in all aspects of the company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, pregnancy, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, military status, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by applicable law.
About Aramark
The people of Aramark proudly serve millions of guests every day through food and facilities in 15 countries around the world. Rooted in service and united by our purpose, we strive to do great things for each other, our partners, our communities, and our planet. We believe a career should develop your talents, fuel your passions, and empower your professional growth. So, no matter what youre pursuing - a new challenge, a sense of belonging, or just a great place to work - our focus is helping you reach your full potential. Learn more about working here at http://www.aramarkcareers.com or connect with us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
We focus on enriching and nourishing the lives of millions all over the world, providing a wide range of services—food, facilities and uniforms—to a diverse group of clients in 19 countries. We serve world champion sports teams, Fortune 500 companies, state-of-the-art healthcare providers and the world’s leading educational institutions. And every day, we dream of ways to do it better through our commitment to innovation and our passion for excellent customer service.
Innovation inspired by you
The better we know the people we serve, the greater the experiences we can develop. Whether it’s food service, facilities or uniforms, our proprietary programs allow us to understand the wants and needs of our audiences.
Armed with that knowledge, our Service Stars spring into action, combining insights and ingenuity to deliver moments that make a difference. These innovations could be game-changing campus transformations. Or a simpler, quicker way for you to access condiments at the ballpark. In any case, our innovations help create experiences that make an impact.
Beyond great service
Another key part of what makes us different is something we call service excellence.
To us, service excellence isn’t just about providing great customer service. It also means using time-tested practices and proven processes to get it right every day, everywhere, in everything that we do. And it's also about striking the perfect balance between doing something well over and over again and being responsive enough to the changing needs of clients and customers. It’s being open to the continuing cycle of innovation. Excellent, but never satisfied. Process-driven, but never locked in place.
We never stop thinking of new, better ways to get it right when our people impact the lives of clients and consumers every day.
Our people make all the difference—we make sure of it
Our commitment to hiring, training and rewarding the right people ensures that our employees are more than just hard workers. They’re Service Stars, and that means they can be counted on to go above and beyond, every single day.
We understand that many times our people are literally the face of your business. That’s why all 270,000 Service Stars receive continual access to professional development and proprietary skills training.
The bottom line is this: when you work with Aramark, you can be confident you’ll be collaborating with the right people with the right skills and the right attitude. That’s true whether it’s for strategic expertise, operational excellence or just serving a morning coffee. That’s our commitment as trusted partners and Service Stars. That’s the Aramark way.