Senior Director Global Lifestyle F&B

***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, offerings, and activities across all brands Globally.
• Resolve working schedules and lead outcomes based on project deadlines and projects list.
• Lead all aspects of tracking and progress of Lifestyle Global F&B brand initiatives & programs underway, on hold, and in development.
• Identify brand relevant restaurant operators and concept partners and make recommendations as vital.

To fulfill this role successfully, you must possess the following minimum qualifications and experience:

• Fifteen (15) years of overall professional experience
• Ten (10) years of Corporate Food & Beverage experience in a similar or multi role
• Five (5) to seven (7) years of demonstrated experience leading a team
• Five (5) to seven (7) years of demonstrated experience leading stakeholder management
• Sixty-five percent (65%) travel time required

It would be useful in this position for you to demonstrate the following capabilities and distinctions:

• Masters Degree in Hospitality, Culinary, Hotel Management or Business Degree
• Ten (10) plus years of progressive Corporate F&B experience
• Demonstrated experience in Food & Beverage asset/prototype development and standards implementation

What is it like working for Hilton?

Hilton is proud to support the mental and physical wellbeing of all Team Members so they can Thrive personally and professionally in a diverse and inclusive environment, thanks to our benefits such as the Go Hilton travel program, employee stock purchase program, and paid time off including parental leave.

Hilton, the #1 World's Best Workplace, is a leading global hospitality company with a diverse portfolio of world-class brands . Dedicated to filling the earth with the light and warmth of hospitality, we have welcomed more than 3 billion guests in our more than 100-year history. Hilton is proud to have an award-winning workplace culture and we are consistently named among one of the World’s Best Workplaces. Check out the Hilton Careers blog and Instagram to learn more about what it’s like to be on Team Hilton!

We provide reasonable accommodations to qualified persons with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position and provide other benefits and privileges of employment in accordance with applicable law. Please contact us if you require an accommodation during the application process.

Hilton offers its eligible team members a comprehensive benefits package including medical and prescription drug coverage, dental coverage, vision coverage, life insurance, short-and long-term disability insurance, access to our employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) where you can purchase Hilton shares at a 15 percent discount, a 401(k) savings plan, 20 days of paid time off accruing over your first year of employment and increasing up to 25 days after completing one year of full employment, up to 12 weeks of paid leave for birth parents and 4 weeks for non-birth parents, 10 paid holidays and 2 floating holidays throughout the year, up to 5 bereavement days, flexible spending accounts, a health savings account, an employee assistance program, access to a care coordination program (“Wellthy”), a legal services program, an educational assistance program, adoption assistance, a backup childcare program, pre-tax commuter benefit and our travel discount. The annual salary range for this role is $130,000 - $210,000 and is determined based on applicable and specialized experience and location. Subject to plan terms and conditions, you will be eligible to participate in the Hilton Annual Incentive (Bonus) Plan, and the Company's long-term incentive plan, consistent with other team members at the same level and/or position within the Company.