***This role is based at our corporate office in New York City, NY***

The Hilton portfolio of hotels is comprised of 25 industry-leading and world-class brands. A dedicated team of industry experts in the domains of hospitality, brand management, innovation, food and beverage, wellness, owner relations, and more, leads our Brands organization with the steadfast goal of strengthening and growing the Hilton Lifestyle portfolio. Our Lifestyle category includes a family of brands, Canopy, Motto, Graduate, Curio Collection, Tapestry Collection, Outset Collection not including future brands.

What will I be doing?

The Senior Director Global Lifestyle F&B is an outstanding role where you will lead and direct all activities of a cross-functional Lifestyle Brand F&B Product Solutions Development team, including creating F&B solutions across Hilton's Lifestyle hotels. You will develop strategic solutions, betas, prototypes, and brand standards to support on-property Food & Beverage programming and progressive F&B concepts to drive commercial success and recognition of Hilton Lifestyle brands while crafting value for owners.

Your responsibilities will also include:

• Evaluate and approve of F&B concepts for regional suitability, target audience, and alignment with Brand Standards.
• Resolve strategic need to develop well-defined bespoke F&B concepts for owners.
• Develop brand standards and deliver to both franchise and managed properties across the US.
• Guide property partners to Hilton's online Food & Beverage Portfolio of concepts, tools, and standard methodologies.
• Develop well-defined Master Prototype F&B innovations for use as turnkey solutions by owners and operators and evaluate business opportunities for new and additional prototype concepts.
• Prepare and present detailed F&B concept briefs for review to internal partners initially and then to internal and external customers.

What are we looking for?
Success will demonstrate itself through the following attributes and skills:

• Collaboratively work with Franchisees and senior partners to provide brand mentorship, support, and programs across regions and in the franchise estate to support goals and priorities.
• Collaboratively work with Lifestyle Brand Ops and senior partners to provide brand mentorship, support, and programming to support category wide goal and priorities.
• Facilitate the market entry of new Hilton Lifestyle brands and concepts, and provide brand guidance to owners, asset managers, and operators.
• Ensure that appropriate talent is identified to assemble and develop a cross-functional team while leading that team to achieve strategic goals and performance using an Agile development methodology.
• Review Brand Standards for relevance in the market and develop updates in collaboration with respective Lifestyle Brand Heads, Brand Performance Support and F&B Operations.
• Lead projects, relationships, communications, and timelines with internal collaborators and third-party vendors.
• Strategically contribute and lead FB Lifestyle Team.
• Direct the strategy and resourcing of Brand Food & Beverage programs, offerin