Group Marketing & Communications Director
Arora Group, Hatton, Hillingdon
Group Marketing & Communications Director
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Arora Group, Hatton, Hillingdon
- Full time
- Permanent
- Onsite working
Posted today, 22 Oct | Get your application in now to be one of the first to apply.
Closing date: Closing date not specified
job Ref: 339d15e865a746b782aaa177797b02d0
Full Job Description
- Act as a hands-on expert managing and executing the digital strategy across the company's hotel websites with a key focus on driving conversion and direct revenue.
- Continually audit and improve the content quality, accuracy, loading speed, user experience, design, structure, and conversion rates of all the websites.
- Responsible for the SEO strategy to obtain strong organic rankings in major search engines like Google.
- Oversee the brand-driven metasearch, PPC, remarketing and display advertising for a handful of hotels to ensure that the campaigns are optimized.
- Calculate and report on ROI of all paid activity and support hotel teams with analytics insight where possible.
- Analyze key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the effectiveness of digital campaigns, creating reports, and providing actionable insights to management.
- Work hand-in-hand with both the Arora Group and hotel marketing teams regarding overall content strategy, ideation and execution of plans and campaigns.
- Work closely with several different global brand digital teams and their in-house website agencies to keep developing the websites where possible.
- Where OTAs and GDS systems are used as part of the distribution mix, ensure that these channels are accurate and optimized, working in close collaboration with the revenue teams.
- Support the development of the marketing plans for new hotel openings, driving cross department integration and collaboration.
Minimum of 10-15 years of relevant hotel marketing and communications experience. - Educated to degree level or relevant digital marketing qualification.
- Strong analytical skills, data driven thinking and solid knowledge of website analytics tools.
- Strong knowledge of how to optimize strategy and conversion.
- Exceptional eye for detail in line with Arora Group's and global hotel brands' expectations.
- Good IT skills, particularly with Microsoft Power Point, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate with other departments.
- Self-motivated, strong project management and organizational skills.
- Ability to keep growing as a marketing professional.
- Exceptional communication skills (verbal and written) and the ability to deal with people at all levels.
The Arora Group is one of the largest private owner and operator of hotels in the UK, with over 6000 rooms in operation across a variety of Global Brands, including Marriott, Hilton, Accor, Radisson and IHG portfolios. Our values revolve around our people, our guests and achievement through ownership which has enabled our exponential growth over the last few years.
Competitive salary Holiday - 28 days holiday, enhanced after 5 years of service. But there's more... - Complimentary on-site parking is available.
- Discounted employee friends & family rates at Arora Hotels.
- Food and beverage discounts.
- Christmas gifts and employee parties.
- Introduce a friend scheme.
- Cycle 2 work scheme.
- UK attraction discounts @ Merlin Entertainments.
- Taste card.
- Life assurance scheme.
- Wage stream.
- Employee assistance programme.
- Arora star employee recognition.
- Long service recognition award.