Associate Marketing Manager I, Paid Social

Vernon Hills, IL (Hybrid)

$65K/yr – $75K/yrMid Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive paid social campaigns to expand reach and ROAS across channels and coordinate with cross-functional teams.

  • Own end-to-end paid social campaigns across TikTok, Meta, YouTube, and others.
  • Must-have: 2–3 years managing Paid Social accounts or paid advertising.
  • Standout: Cross-functional collaboration to maximize ROAS and new customer growth with retailer ads and DSP.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Create and optimize paid social campaigns to expand reach and grow mental and physical availability across key channels such as TikTok, Meta, YouTube, Pinterest and more.
  • Manage relationships with agency partners on key paid social channels.
  • Utilize tools like Microsoft Excel and PowerBI to evaluate the effectiveness of Paid Social impact on reach, performance in retail channels, budget efficiency and more.
  • Explore and prospect new paid social communication channels and tactics that will expand our reach and grow mental availability.
  • Work collaboratively with the Retail & Search team and the Paid Media shared services team to maximize total ROAS and new customer growth (specifically, retailer sponsored ads and DSP).
  • Support our School and Retail Sales teams to drive traffic for specific regional, geo-targeted initiatives.
  • Lead asset creation initiatives by collaborating with the creative team and other contracted content creators to support paid social needs.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in marketing, or relevant field
  • 2-3 years of marketing experience managing Paid Social accounts, or relevant experience in paid advertising as well as social media management.
  • Results-driven attitude – a self-starter who thinks and participates effectively, both independently and as part of a team
  • Analytical skills, and sales acumen – must be able to gather, analyze and interpret data to deliver business insights
  • Proactive and resourceful in solving problems, making decisions and executing on goals
  • Connects inside and outside the team; shares information, transfers knowledge and seeks diverse input from others within the team and across the organization
  • Ability to build and maintain effective relationships with management, sales teams, peers and agency partners and manage those relationships to achieve business objectives
  • Collaborates effectively across creative, product, retail, and analytics teams to develop paid social campaigns from start to finish that are strategically aligned, insight‑driven, and optimized for business impact.
  • Owns results and follows through on commitments, takes responsibility and produces quality results
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