Manager, Brand PR Buffalo Wild Wings Position Available In Fulton, Georgia

Manager, Brand PR Buffalo Wild Wings Manager, Brand PR Buffalo Wild Wings
locations
Atlanta Support Center
time type
Full time
posted on
Posted Yesterday
job requisition id
JR36044
As Manager, Brand PR for BWW (Inspire Brands), you will be instrumental in supporting all external PR activities. Your role will be responsible for helping to develop and implement unique, ownable campaigns that drive awareness, generate buzz, and enhance engagement to advance BWW into a culturally relevant space. A successful candidate for this position should have relevant experience in earned media, brand activation, experiential events, and influencer & sports marketing, with a pulse on what resonates with millennial and Gen Z audiences. This individual will bring an entrepreneurial and creative mindset, a self-starter attitude, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, always-on environment. This role reports to the VP of Brand PR (Inspire Brands). Based in Atlanta.

Responsibilities:

PR Campaign Development:

Create brand public relations strategies, ensuring alignment with BWW’s strategic priorities, including the launch of new menu items, promotions, partnerships, and cross-channel creative initiatives.

Earned Media Authority:

Proactively generate a stream of unique, ownable and buzzworthy ideas that resonate with BWW’s audience, ensuring the brand remains culturally relevant beyond planned marketing initiatives.

Agency Management:

Oversee relationships with multiple external agencies, ensuring timely and effective communications. Brief agencies and collaboratively shape and refine the ideas they propose to ensure they resonate with target audiences, offer business-building potential, fit the brand and hold cultural relevance/PR impact. Oversee timely and effective campaign delivery, and ensure return on investment. Ensure agency activities remain within budget.

Writing:

Draft communications materials, including press releases, media pitches, PR/activation campaign copy, external talking points and briefing documents for internal and external stakeholders.

Cross-Functional Collaboration:

Engage with the marketing team, other cross-functional partners and external partners to ideate and execute brand activation campaigns. Excellent project management skills are required.

PR Insights:

Stay updated with PR and industry trends to keep the brand at the forefront of conversations. Evaluate campaign effectiveness, assess ROI and provide feedback to both internal teams and agencies, promoting ongoing improvement and adapting strategies accordingly.

Budget Management:

Manage budget for specific campaigns. Ensuring projects remain within budget. Work with finance to forecast and plan for future initiatives.

Requirements:

4 Year Degree Preferred in Communications, PR or relevant field
8+ Years of experience in Communications, Public Relations or Marketing
Agency Experience Preferred
Operational discipline – ability to lead from idea to execution – manage details on tight timing, key contact for go-to-market execution, budget management, leadership communications, etc.
Creative mindset grounded in strategy – a desire to constantly challenge the norm with bold, original ideas that will build the brand and business
Obsessed with culture and finding ways to be authentic and relevant in big moments
Keen ability to identify a great idea that fits with the brand – honed instincts on what ideas will generate headlines and coverage
Experience working closely with social media teams, brand marketers, and marketing agencies
Passionate about PR and what it takes to do signature, award-winning work
Strong writing skills
Basic knowledge of sports

Travel Required:

25% (Domestic travel for PR initiatives)
Inspire is a multi-brand restaurant company whose portfolio includes more than 33,000 Arby’s, Baskin-Robbins, Buffalo Wild Wings, Dunkin’, Jimmy John’s, and SONIC restaurants worldwide.
We’re made up of some of the world’s most iconic restaurant brands, but we’re much more than just a restaurant company. We’re a team of hundreds of thousands who individually and collectively are changing the way people eat, drink, and gather around the table. We know that food is much more than a staple—it’s an experience. At Inspire, that’s our purpose: to ignite and nourish flavorful experiences.
About Us
Inspire is a multi-brand restaurant company whose portfolio includes more than 33,000 Arby’s, Baskin-Robbins, Buffalo Wild Wings, Dunkin’, Jimmy John’s, and SONIC restaurants across nearly 60 global markets. In an industry facing increasing disruption, our leaders saw an opportunity to build a restaurant company unlike any other – one that brings together differentiated yet complementary brands and aims to make them stronger than they would be on their own. Found inherently in the purposes of our family of brands, we identified a common thread between our restaurants – the capacity to inspire. From guest experience to career development to community well-being, Inspire plays a role in the lives of millions of people every day. Our brands are diverse, distinctive, and fan favorites. In a sense, you could say we seek those who provide something different than the norm.