Job Description
Aramark is seeking a Vice President of Marketing to build and lead the go-to-market, brand, and growth strategy for one of Aramark's fastest-growing lines of business.
This is a builder role. We are looking for a marketing leader who is energized by creating something from the ground up. The Vice President of Marketing will help determine where the line of business grows, how we enter new markets, how we position the business, how we create demand, and how Marketing partners with Sales to win.
For the right leader, this is a rare opportunity to help build a new line of business from the ground up while leveraging the scale, capabilities, and resources of Aramark. You will have the opportunity to shape the brand, establish the go-to-market strategy, build the marketing infrastructure, and directly influence where the business expands next.
The Vice President of Marketing will work at the intersection of B2B marketing, growth strategy, market development, brand strategy, product marketing, demand generation, and sales enablement. This leader will partner closely with Sales and senior leadership to identify and size new markets, develop differentiated positioning, create market-entry strategies, support major pursuits, and build programs that generate awareness and commercial opportunities.
We need someone who can operate at both the strategic and execution level. You may be developing a multi-year growth strategy one day and working directly on competitive analysis, customer messaging, an RFP strategy, campaign, sales presentation, or market-entry plan the next.
The right person has built growth strategies before. They know how to take a developing business, determine where it can win, create a clear market position, and turn that strategy into measurable commercial activity.
This role requires approximately 25% travel, with travel expected to be closer to 50% during the initial onboarding period to support training, team integration, and business acclimation.
Job Responsibilities
Go-to-market and growth strategy
Build and lead the overall go-to-market strategy for Aramark Nexus, including market priorities, customer segments, positioning, and annual growth initiatives.
Translate Nexus business objectives into clear marketing, demand-generation, and commercial strategies.
Partner with Nexus leadership and Sales to determine where the business should focus resources and investment.
Establish measurable goals for market penetration, pipeline contribution, demand generation, and marketing effectiveness.
Market expansion and intelligence
Identify, evaluate, and size new industries, markets, customer segments, and growth opportunities.
Develop market-entry strategies.
Build a disciplined approach to market research, segmentation, customer insights, competitive intelligence, and industry trends.
Evaluate new products, services, and solutions and develop strategies to successfully introduce them to the market.
Brand and value proposition
Build and continuously strengthen the Aramark Nexus brand, value proposition, and market position.
Define clear differentiation and customer messaging across industries, markets, and buyer audiences.
Translate complex Nexus capabilities into simple, compelling business value for customers.
Ensure consistent positioning across digital marketing, campaigns, proposals, presentations, events, thought leadership, and sales materials.
Responsibilities Continued
Sales enablement and major pursuits
Serve as a strategic marketing partner to Nexus Sales on major pursuits, account strategies, RFPs, and proposals.
Develop account-specific positioning, messaging, and commercial content for high-value opportunities.
Bring customer, competitor, and market intelligence directly into pursuit and sales strategy.
Build sales enablement tools and content that help generate conversations, differentiate Nexus, and win business.
Demand generation and marketing execution
Build and lead demand-generation programs across digital marketing, content, email, events, industry conferences, thought leadership, and targeted campaigns.
Develop campaigns tied directly to priority industries, customer segments, and growth objectives.
Test, measure, and refine marketing programs based on engagement, pipeline contribution, and business results.
Determine the right mix of channels, content, technology, agencies, and resources needed to accelerate growth.
Build and lead the marketing function
Build the marketing capabilities, processes, tools, technology, and infrastructure required to support a rapidly growing business.
Operate comfortably between executive-level strategy and hands-on execution in an entrepreneurial environment.
Partner across Sales, Operations, Finance, Strategy, Communications, and Aramark Enterprise Marketing.
Build and lead additional marketing talent and capabilities as Nexus continues to scale.
Qualifications
We are looking for a builder who has helped create and grow a business, business unit, product, service, or new market.
Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, Communications, Strategy, or a related field.
15+ years of progressive leadership experience across B2B marketing, go-to-market strategy, growth marketing, market development, product marketing, brand strategy, or commercial strategy.
Proven experience building and executing a go-to-market strategy for a growing business, business unit, product, or service.
Demonstrated success identifying, sizing, entering, and growing new markets or customer segments.
Strong experience with market research, segmentation, competitive intelligence, customer insights, and market strategy.
Experience developing differentiated value propositions, market positioning, and customer-facing messaging.
Demonstrated experience launching new products, services, solutions, or market offerings.
Experience partnering directly with Sales on major pursuits, RFPs, proposals, account strategies, and sales enablement.
Experience building demand-generation programs for complex B2B services or solutions.
Ability to translate market data and customer insight into clear business recommendations and action.
Ability to move quickly between strategy and execution without requiring a large established team or infrastructure.
Strong executive communication, presentation, business partnership, and influencing skills.
The strongest candidates will have worked at the intersection of marketing, growth, strategy, and sales and can demonstrate how they helped build something new, enter new markets, create demand, and contribute to measurable business growth.
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 you're 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.
Nearest Major Market: Philadelphia
| Location | Philadelphia, PA |
| Industry | Food and Beverage Production |
| Company Size | 10,000 employees or more |
| Year Founded | 1936 |
| Website | https://www.aramark.com/ |
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.
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