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Marketing Coordinator - Bar & Beverage Apply
CO - Greenwood Village (Home Office)

Based at our Greenwood Village Home Office you will be critical in supporting the Beverage Development Manager with important Red Robin beverage initiatives such as creating and executing an innovation process to deliver marketable new products, staying current with beverage trend information, elevating team member beverage training and continuous education, and standing up menu and product tests that will inform future decision making. 

Duties Include:

  • Supports the beverage team (Beverage Development Manager and National Marketing Manager) with the creation of internal and external communications intended to develop, train, educate, and execute beverage initiatives
  • Creates and manages a beverage pipeline (complete with costs, recipes and supporting trend information) to allow for agility and flexibility in beverage innovation decisions
  • Continually reviews liquor and wine mandates to determine sales and menu decisions are relevant and streamlined
  • Works with operations on liquor approvals outside of national mandate program to support regional preferences
  • Researches cost savings initiatives to reengineer current and future menu offerings as well as supporting the cross functional teams on ways to improve beverage profitability through ingredients, waste and ordering practices
  • Partners with the Implementation and Operations teams to ensure company-wide beverage focus and training (such as big sets, mailers, ROD week, TLFG training materials, etc.) and supports the beverage team in timeline and strategy to elevate those communications
  • Provides an additional resource at the Home Office to drive alcoholic beverage sales in restaurant by supporting with alcohol out of stock scenarios, mandate questions and recipe support.
  • Maintain Yummm U bar and beverage areas including: inventory tracking, sample coordination, ideation/showing setup and execution, product rotation and organization, par level maintenance and overall cleanliness
  • Manages the innovation process and ideations with vendor partners to continually grow the beverage pipeline
  • Partners with Menu Implementation team to create roll out materials and verifies recipes in development have passed set check points and ensures accurate and safe shelf-lives are created for new prep recipes and new product through QA testing
  • Works with POS teams to ensure beverage related keys, tools and systems are user-friendly, accurate and functional.

Requirements:

  • Bachelor Degree preferred
  • Minimum of 5 years of recent bartending experience in a national restaurant chain
  • Familiar and comfortable with bar techniques, skills and trends
  • Must be able to demonstrate strong knowledge of bar efficiencies
  • Strong attention to detail
  • Ability to interface across all levels of the organization
  • Ability to train and influence team member behaviors
  • Good computer skills
  • Must be highly collaborative with the ability to work cross-functionally, influence and gain results while building relationships

 

Red Robin is an Equal Opportunity & E-Verify Employer





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