Marketing Lead

About the Role Do you love food, community, and bringing people together? Chick-fil-A Shelby Township and Chick-fil-A Hall Road at Romeo Plank are looking for a creative, energetic Marketing professional to build and execute the marketing strategy for both restaurants. You'll work directly with the Owner-Operator to grow our brand, make a real impact in the community, and lead with food, always with a focus on creating remarkable experiences for our guests and team members. Pay is commensurate with experience. What You'll Do Strategy and Planning

• Create a marketing plan for both restaurants, build and execute an actionable plan to deliver it
• Coordinate marketing efforts across both locations, including partnerships and in-store activations
• Lead with great food, including planning and running menu item sampling
• Identify opportunities for the Operator to engage with the community and build the brand

Events and Activations

• Plan and execute in-restaurant events and activations
• Plan and execute external events in the community
• Use Chick-fil-A's internal Spotlight tools to schedule events and treats and to email the guest database
• Organize and execute the Be Our Guest Card distribution strategy

Cow Team and Brand Presence

• Deploy the Cow costume in the restaurants and the community
• Recruit, create, and manage the Cow Team (within our Team)

Community Partnerships and Giving

• Lead the giving strategy and process with the Owner-Operator
• Identify sponsorship opportunities with local organizations and schools
• Organize Leader Academy activations with local schools

Team Member Engagement

• Coordinate the submission of team member scholarship applications
• Conduct internal team member surveys and share the results with leadership

Creative and Brand Standards

• Produce creative collateral within Chick-fil-A brand standards
• Ensure all advertising and marketing collateral is on brand

What We're Looking For

• Experience in marketing, events, community relations, or a related field. Restaurant or hospitality experience is a plus
• Strong organizational and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple events anpriorities
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills
• Creative eye and comfort producing on-brand collateral (Canva, Adobe, or similar)
• Ability to lead and motivate a team of team members and volunteers
• Comfortable representing the brand at events, including evenings and weekends as needed
• Reliable transportation to travel between both locations and community events

Why Join Us

• Work closely with Owner-Operator and Leaders who invests in your growth
• Be a visible part of the community you live in
• Competitive pay, flexible scheduling, Sundays off
• Health benefits, 401k
• Team member scholarship opportunities and other benefits

Working at a Chick-fil-A® restaurant is more than a job – it’s an opportunity for teamwork and leadership development in a positive, people-focused environment. Most Chick-fil-A restaurants are locally owned and operated by independent, franchised Operators who invest in the future of their Team Members and give back to their communities.