Manager, Social Strategy

Chicago, IL (On-site)

$82K/yr – $92K/yrManager4+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own social strategy and hands-on execution for multi-client programs, aligning editorial, content, paid media, and analytics with broader paid/owned/earned plans.

  • Lead platform strategy and editorial planning across multiple clients and internal teams.
  • Convert social listening and analytics into insights that shape content and creative for priority audiences.
  • Manage client relationships and deliverables, coordinating with creative, strategy, media, and PR partners.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead the development and implementation of social media campaigns integrating into larger paid, owned and earned programs
  • Educate clients and colleagues about emerging trends, platforms and best practices
  • Implement digital engagement campaigns for top-tier clients
  • Serve as a platform strategist lead for multiple clients and internal functions
  • Oversee client’s social media channels including editorial planning, content development, paid media, social listening, social media monitoring and content performance analytics and ongoing social strategy
  • Inform the development of effective digital and social media creative and editorial assets to resonate with priority audiences and ensure social channels are being used in high-value ways
  • Serve as a key client contact in the management of digital campaigns, providing both reliable project management and strategic counsel as needed. You know how to appropriately engage with clients and can confidently communicate with clients in both written communications, virtually via Microsoft Teams or IRL.
  • Collaborate with senior internal agency staff to develop strategy and ensure client deliverables are being met
  • Support new business development efforts in pitch development and presentations

Requirements

  • 4-5 years in digital communications and marketing positions in roles focused on social media
  • Experience supporting large clients or organizations driving innovative social media programs
  • Deep expertise in social media, including content formats, available ad targeting and analytics capabilities
  • Experience working closely with several types of teams such as creative, strategy, media planning and PR
  • Familiarity and comfort working with senior-level stakeholders and clients
  • A keen passion for tracking social media and influencer trends and leveraging them to solve client challenges across a range of industries
  • Knowledge of and interest in social media listening programs and the ability to transform findings into actionable insights for clients
  • Ability to manage multiple projects at various stages simultaneously
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced, highly collaborative, multi-disciplinary team

Preferred

  • Experience with launching a podcast
  • TikTok-worthy level of organization mentioned in responsibilities as a capability (organizational skills)

Benefits

  • Mentorship and professional development opportunities
  • Weber Shandwick emphasizes collaboration and growth as part of client service culture
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Weber Shandwick

Weber Shandwick is the earned-first global communications agency. Led by world-class strategic and creative thinkers and activators, Weber Shandwick has won some of the most prestigious awards in the industry, including being named #1 in the Public Relations and Brand Strategies category on Fast Company’s 2024 Most Innovative Companies list, one of Fast Company’s Best Workplace for Innovators in 2023, PRWeek’s 2024 Global Agency of the Year, ranked #1 on PRovoke’s Global Creative Index in 2024 and honored on Ad Age’s A-List in 2024 & 2020 and Best Places to Work in 2019, in addition to being awarded Campaign Global’s PR Agency of the Year in 2023. Weber Shandwick was the most awarded PR agency at the 2023 and 2024 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, including earning the PR industry’s first-ever idea-led Cannes Grand Prix in the Brand Experience & Activation category and cumulatively earning more than 225 Cannes Lions. Weber Shandwick has also been named PR Agency of the Year by Campaign US in 2021, honored as PRovoke’s Global Agency of the Decade in 2020 and ranked #1 on PRovoke’s Global Creative Index in 2021 and 2022. Additionally, the firm was named PRWeek’s Global Agency of the Year in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 and was awarded PRWeek’s Purpose Agency of the Year in 2020 and 2021. Weber Shandwick also received Honorable Mention on the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Global Marketing Agencies in 2021, as the only PR agency featured.  Part of the Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG), Weber Shandwick is the anchor agency within The Weber Shandwick Collective – the strategic communications and consulting network. For more information, visit https://www.webershandwick.com/. Social Media Community Guidelines: http://bit.ly/wssocialterms

Founded in 2001
New York, NY, US
4.4K employees (1,170 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
74.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
36%
Direct
46.1%
Referral
5.6%
Social
11.7%
Paid
0.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~4.4K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
882 (20% of company)
Median Career Experience
14 years
Median Tenure
7 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
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