Creative Marketing Manager

Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

$109K/yr – $159K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 5 days ago

Job Summary

You will own end-to-end creative leadership for multi-channel campaigns, shaping concepts, storytelling, and partnerships while coordinating with internal teams and external agencies across social, video, digital, and media workstreams.

  • Own day-to-day contact for creative, social, production, and agency partners.
  • Lead campaign concepting, content strategy, and cross-channel execution across platforms.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Establish the visual and verbal expression of campaigns, including the look, tone, feel, messaging, mood boards, visual references, and creative territories.
  • Develop campaign concepts, shape narratives, write copy, create social assets, build storyboards, and recommend content formats and production techniques.
  • Provide creative direction across video, social, digital, eCommerce, media, and campaign assets, ensuring the work is distinctive, relevant, and aligned with brand standards.
  • Identify social trends, cultural conversations, emerging formats, and platform behaviors that can inspire timely brand content.
  • Build content calendars and roadmaps based on campaign plans, media needs, cultural opportunities, and business priorities.
  • Partner across internal teams and agencies to deliver connected creative across consumer touchpoints.
  • Support organic and paid social execution, including publishing, community engagement, social listening, optimization, and reporting.
  • Guide influencer, creator, talent, licensing, and brand partnerships from briefing and selection through content delivery and measurement.
  • Present and advocate for creative recommendations, respond to stakeholder feedback, and apply campaign results and consumer response to future work.
  • Serve as the primary day to day contact for assigned creative, social, production, media, and account agency partners.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree required.
  • 5+ years of experience in design, copywriting, art direction, content creation, creative marketing, integrated marketing, or a related field, with demonstrated experience operating at the level of a Senior Designer, Senior Copywriter, Senior Content Creative, Marketing Manager, Associate Creative Director, or equivalent role.
  • Portfolio demonstrating strong design fundamentals, strategic thinking, and multi-channel execution.
  • Strong account leadership, communication, presentation, and project management skills, including the ability to manage feedback, align stakeholders, and build trusted relationships.
  • Direct experience creating, editing, uploading, scheduling, publishing, and managing content within Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube, and YouTube Studio, along with a strong understanding of organic and paid social practices.
  • Experience managing integrated campaigns, agencies, production partners, budgets, timelines, cross functional teams, partner agreements, and usage rights.
  • Working familiarity with Adobe Creative Cloud, particularly Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, Acrobat, or Adobe Express, with the ability to review, adapt, or make light edits to creative assets.
  • Proficiency with Microsoft 365 applications, including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, Teams, and SharePoint.
  • Experience using generative AI tools for creative ideation, copy development, visual exploration, research, content adaptation, and workflow efficiency.
  • Experience managing budgets, reporting processes, governance requirements, and compliance standards.

Benefits

  • Health: Comprehensive healthcare plans, wellness incentive program, mental wellbeing support and fitness reimbursement
  • Wealth: Great pay, bonus incentive opportunity, matching 401(k) and stock purchase plan
  • Growth: Career development opportunities, employee resource groups, on-demand learning and tuition reimbursement
  • Balance: Paid-time off, parental leave, flexible work-schedules (subject to your location and role) and volunteer opportunities
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Conagra Brands

3.7 Glassdoor

Conagra has the most impactful, energized and inclusive culture in food. Our diverse team embraces debate to challenge marketplace/business conventions. We are respected for our great brands, great food, great margins and consistent results.We combine a rich heritage with a sharpened focus and entrepreneurial spirit. Conagra’s portfolio of iconic and emerging food brands continues to evolve to offer contemporary choices for every occasion. We are a 100 year-old company with a startup attitude - an imperative to transform how we do business. What’s not changing? Our timeless values: integrity, external focus, broad-mindedness, agility, leadership by all, and a focus on results.

Founded in 1919
Chicago, Illinois, USA
7.5K employees (463 in marketing)
71% recommend to a friend
86% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$109K/yr – $159K/yr

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