Amenity Events & Programming Manager

About Great Performances

Great Performances is one of New York’s leading catering, events, and hospitality companies. For more than four decades, we have created memorable food and hospitality experiences across corporate workplaces, cultural institutions, restaurants, cafés, and major events throughout New York City.

Our partners include Jazz at Lincoln Center, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Wave Hill, and The Apollo Theater. We are also the nation’s first caterer to own and operate an organic farm, Katchkie Farm in Kinderhook, New York.

Everything we do is rooted in our mission to Unleash Joy through Genuine Hospitality and our vision of Building Community to Better Our World.

Our core values guide how we work:

Craftsmanship: Creating thoughtful menus, designs, and experiences for our clients and guests.
People: Building opportunity, supporting growth, and recognizing our employees as our greatest asset.
Sustainability: Advancing responsible practices that support our communities and our planet.
Collaboration: Working closely with clients, colleagues, and partners to bring ideas to life.
Doing Good Through Food: Supporting food access, health and wellness, education, and philanthropy.

The Role

Great Performances is seeking a creative, food-focused Amenity Events & Programming Manager to develop programming and experiences across our corporate, café, retail, and amenity locations.

This role is ideal for someone who loves food, hospitality, wellness, restaurants, and discovering what is new. The Amenity Events & Programming Manager will create a strong calendar of experiences including chef collaborations, restaurant partnerships, food festivals, pop-ups, tastings, seasonal programming, wellness initiatives, and other engaging activations.

Working closely with Culinary, Operations, Marketing, and Design, this role will take programs from concept through execution while developing ideas that can be adapted and scaled across multiple Great Performances locations.

What You’ll Do

Programming & Concept Development

• Develop annual and monthly programming calendars for client-facing events, experiences, and activations.
• Create food festivals, pop-ups, tastings, chef collaborations, restaurant partnerships, wellness programs, seasonal activations, and cultural food experiences.
• Stay current on emerging food, restaurant, hospitality, wellness, and cultural trends and translate them into relevant programming.
• Develop concepts tailored to the audience, space, and operational needs of each location.

Development & Execution

• Work with chefs, managers, and operational teams to bring programs from concept through onsite execution.
• Partner with culinary and commissary teams on menus, sourcing, quantities, production, packaging, equipment, and logistics.
• Develop clear, practical activation plans and tools that allow successful programs to be replicated across multiple locations.
• Support tastings, program launches, events, and onsite activations.
• Travel between Great Performances locations throughout New York City as needed.

Marketing & Partnerships

• Partner with Marketing and Design on program messaging, signage, promotional materials, calendars, and collateral.
• Coordinate photography and content development for activations, menus, and new programming.
• Identify opportunities for chef, restaurant, brand, and community partnerships.
• Maintain an organized library of successful concepts, menus, photography, collateral, and programming resources.

What We’re Looking For

We are looking for a creative, highly organized self-starter who is passionate about food, hospitality, and creating experiences that bring people together.

The ideal candidate is curious, resourceful, collaborative, and comfortable moving between creative development and hands-on execution.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of experience in hospitality, food and beverage, culinary programming, events, experiential programming, marketing, or a related field.
• Strong knowledge of food trends, seasonality, guest experience, and hospitality operations.
• Demonstrated experience developing food-focused programs, events, activations, or guest experiences from concept through execution.
• Experience collaborating with chefs, culinary teams, operations teams, and other cross-functional partners.
• Strong project management and organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple programs, timelines, budgets, and locations.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Hands-on and comfortable supporting tastings, launches, events, and onsite execution.
• Flexibility to work evenings and weekends as needed.
• Responsibilities may evolve based on the needs of the organization.

What Success Looks Like

Success in this role means creating a varied and engaging calendar of programs that gives guests new reasons to experience and connect with our spaces while bringing Great Performances’ culinary resources, partnerships, creativity, and hospitality point of view to life.

Location: New York, NY
Schedule: Full-Time, On-Site
Base Salary: $90,000 per year

Benefits: Vacation time, 401(k), medical, dental and vision insurance, transit benefits, paid and unpaid safe and sick time, and FSA (Flexible Spending Account).

Candidates must be able to provide valid documentation demonstrating eligibility to work in the United States.

Great Performances is an equal opportunity employer. We employ qualified individuals based on ability, training, and experience and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant based on race, national origin, sex, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other classification protected by law.