Director Media Services

Chicago, IL (On-site)

$135K/yr – $200K/yrDirector/Executive10+ years expFull time

Posted 3 days ago

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Job Summary

Own and shape the in-house media organization by leading strategy, investment principles, and activation standards while driving learning, measurement, and performance across teams and partners.

  • Define media success metrics and reporting standards
  • Lead learning, optimization, and technology roadmaps
  • Influence senior stakeholders and align cross-functional plans

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Media Strategy & Planning Leadership Build strategies, frameworks, media & audience methodologies, investment principles and operating standards to establish Conagra as a world-class in-house media organization. Serve as the organizations thought leader on modern media strategy, ensuring media investment translates into clear business outcomes, consumer understanding, and measurable, tracked growth goals & ROI targets. Partner with Brand, Analytics, and finance teams to support annual planning, scenario modeling, and investment decisions. Establish & maintain activation standards, QA systems, and ensure executional quality across all media channels.
  • Elevate Media Effectiveness through Insights & Learning Establish learning agendas, testing frameworks, and optimization processes that continuously improve media ROI, accelerate enterprise learnings, and reimagines our performance and operating model. Lead the learning plan process and communication/reporting operating model to ensure insights inform both media and broader marketing improvement. Establish the long-term roadmap for media technology, automation, operational efficiency, and data science, partnering with Analytics and IT teams to evolve data infrastructure, reporting capabilities, and reporting systems. Evaluate emerging technologies, platforms, and AI-enabled solutions to improve media effectiveness.
  • Measurement & Performance Leadership Define media success metrics and performance expectations aligned to business objectives and deliver reporting tools and operating models to deliver a culture of awareness and continuous improvement. Partner with Marketing Analytics to integrate MMM, incrementality, campaign performance, and audience insights into planning decisions. Lead performance reviews and optimization discussions across stakeholders. Ensure learnings are captured, prioritized, and applied to future investments and planning decisions.
  • Team Building & Thought Leadership Coach, mentor, and develop a strong team of Media Planners and Specialists to grow in their media acumen and capabilities, fostering a culture of curiosity, accountability and continuous improvement. Scale and deploy learnings frameworks and planning methodologies across brand team and cross functional partners. Champion planning innovation and adoption of emerging media best practices. Influence cross-functional stakeholders through clear storytelling, analytical and performance-based insights, and storytelling. Lead strategic planning reviews with brand, commerce, analytics, finance, and other stakeholders, providing strategic direction and performance expectations to agency and activation partners.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred.
  • 10+ years of media planning, media strategy, or integrated communications experience.
  • Experience connecting media investments to business and financial outcomes.
  • Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and lead cross-functional initiatives.
  • Experience partnering with analytics teams to leverage measurement and learning frameworks.
  • Strong understanding of audience strategy, channel planning, and integrated media ecosystems.

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

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
109.6K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
35.8%
Direct
48.1%
Referral
9.7%
Social
5.9%
Paid
0.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~7.5K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
429 (6% of company)
Median Career Experience
13 years
Median Tenure
4.8 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
3

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