Job Details
- Job category: marketing manager
- Company: Aarval Ltd t/a McDonalds
- Job Location: McDonalds Restaurants Shop St 36 Shop Street Co. Galway
- Start date: 21/12/2025
- Contract type: Permanent Full-time
- Career level: Managerial
- Salary: 34000.00 Euro Annually
- Hours per week: 39
- Remote/Blended Working: No
- Sector: accommodation and food service activities
Application Details
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Job Description & Skills Required
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
• Drive equality in communities
• strategy development and implementation
• Deliver centralized Happy Meal Readers program across strategy and execution
• Elevate and drive creative excellence and consistency
• Play an integral role in restaurant calendar planning process
• Project lead on Happy Meal Activation and tactical execution, including TVC, packaging, POP, Digital.
• To help build robust business cases on all planned activities and contribute to their post evaluation
• To develop and lead critical time lines for timely delivery of all initiatives/executions
• To take ownership for clear, concise and timely communication of initiatives with all levels of the McDonald’s organisation, agencies and relevant 3rd parties
• To support concept development, test markets and pilot programs for new innovations in the Family Business
• Day-to-day project management, as well as support information sharing and alignment on key business priorities
• To support internal communication and sharing standard methodologies across markets
• From time-to-time, special project work What background do I need to have?
• Skilled at working in a multi-market capacity
• Strong project management and execution success, with a heavy focus on attention to detail, and good creative judgement
• Strong analytic and quantitative analysis skills
• Proven track record to lead cross-functional teams to achieve organisational goals
• Good (and working) knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Retail or marketing background
• Self-starter with a strong sense of initiative and accountability
• Passion to promote the brand values of McDonald’s
• Ability to work assertively but diplomatically with management and colleagues at all levels in a decentralised system
• Passion for consumer insight, trends and innovation
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced & deadline-driven environment, calm under pressure
• Display leadership behaviours and characteristics and a desire to develop self
• Empower and support team members as appropriate – passion to develop talent
• Experience and an ability to think critically and creatively to tackle problems
• Work with energy and passion and encourage the same in others
• Build a feedback-rich environment that encourages and models the exchange of feedback
• Excellent interpersonal skills, curious mind set, confident, independent and logical problem solver Qualifications Marketing Degree or Equivalent. Alternatively 5 year experience in a similar role.
Job Posted: December 23rd 2025 for 28 days