A2L Program 2025 - Marketing Specialist - University of DE

Job Description

Aramark’s Accelerate to Leadership (A2L) Program offers early career talent valuable work experience, mentorship from industry leaders, and professional training across a variety of environments and business areas. As a year-long development and training program designed for recent college graduates, A2L provides you with the resources you need to ignite your full potential and launch an accelerated career path at Aramark. 

 Selected candidates will have the opportunity to take on leadership roles within Aramark while participating in structured program activities and developmental exercises tailored to each candidate’s career track. For the thousands of students and recent grads that call Aramark home, we provide a place to grow, advance, and impact lives across a range of exciting industries and locations. 

Aramark’s A2L Program is committed to fostering communities rooted in service, inclusion, and shared prosperity, empowering all individuals to make an impact.

 

Job Responsibilities

 

• Responsible for executing and implementing base business growth programs and strategies to increase sales, ensure pricing accuracy, drive mandatory meal plan upgrades and increase voluntary meal plan sales. Ensures all promotions, applicable sales enablers and other growth initiatives are implemented across the account(s).
• Responsible for driving change, with focus on sales and consumer satisfaction, that results in profitable base business growth for the account(s) and for our clients.
• Works with District Marketing Manager and operations team to write the unit specific client marketing and communication plans and tracks results.
• Responsible and accountable for the sales process, accurate data and results entered into the Meal Plan Analytics database.
• Interacts with client and maintains effective client and customer communications and relations at all levels of the organization.
• Identifies opportunities to implement new innovations, technology solutions, products and services which support sales growth and client retention.
• Ensures participation in DiningStyles and Voice of the Consumer (VOC) and presents results at team and client meetings each semester. 
• Manages student peer-to-peer groups to ensure proper execution of mandatory meal plan upgrades and voluntary meal plan selling activities to achieve sales targets.   
• Manages student marketing intern(s) to ensure all program logistics/graphics are complete.
• Ensures necessary training and support are provided to the account(s) and that brand standards are fully executed at all identified points of service, resulting in sustainable growth in sales, customer satisfaction and increased profits.
• Works collaboratively with the Collegiate Hospitality team to implement all national programs.
• Supports front line management with administration of Marketing, Service Excellence and Suggestive Selling training.
• Participates in the contract re-bid/extension process for their account.  Assists other region marketing team members with EngageIQ® and Strategic Account Review processes at other accounts.

Qualifications

A2L PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS 

•  To be considered eligible, applicants must graduate between December – August of the current school year for the rising A2L Program class 
• This program will start in July. All degree requirements must be completed prior to the start date of the program (including any final internship requirements). 
• Must be authorized to work in the United States and not require work authorization sponsorship by Aramark for this position now or in the future 

         PREFERRED EXPERIENCE 

• A degree or background in hospitality, customer service, food service, facilities, operations, or sales 
•  Relevant coursework or work experience 
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