Digital Paid Media & Performance Marketing Specialist

Peoria, IL (Hybrid)

$69K/yr – $71K/yrMid Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 7 days ago

Job Summary

Own end-to-end paid media programs across Google, Meta, and other channels, driving B2B and B2C lead generation while optimizing budgets, testing, and reporting for Sales and executives.

  • Steer planning and execution of paid search, social, display, and retargeting
  • Translate data into actionable recommendations for Marketing, Sales and leadership

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Independently plan, build and optimize campaigns across Google Ads and Meta Ads Manager , with additional channels as appropriate.
  • Manage paid search, paid social, display, video and retargeting campaigns supporting B2B and B2C lead generation, agent recruitment and demand generation.
  • Make data-driven decisions across budgets, bids, audiences, targeting, campaign objectives, creative and landing pages .
  • Identify and reduce wasted media spend while reallocating budget toward stronger-performing opportunities.
  • Develop and execute A/B tests across creative, copy, audiences, offers and landing pages.
  • Look beyond clicks and traffic to understand the full journey from media exposure → lead capture → qualification → Sales follow-up → downstream conversion .
  • Partner with Sales to understand lead quality and improve targeting, messaging and conversion performance.
  • Measure paid-media ROI by connecting marketing investment to leads, conversions and downstream business results.
  • Translate campaign data into clear recommendations for Marketing, Sales and executive stakeholders.
  • Stay current on emerging channels, platform changes, AI-enabled optimization and performance-marketing best practices.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Advertising, Communications, Business or a related field.
  • 3–5 years of hands-on paid-media and performance-marketing experience in an agency, B2B, B2C, D2C, financial services, insurance, lead-generation or other performance-driven environment.
  • Demonstrated hands-on proficiency with Google Ads and Meta Ads Manager.
  • Hands-on experience with LinkedIn Campaign Manager and B2B paid-social campaigns .
  • Strong paid search and paid social strategy and execution experience.
  • Experience managing campaign budgets and independently making optimization decisions.
  • Experience connecting campaign activity to CRM and lead-management data to evaluate lead quality and downstream performance.
  • Strong knowledge of conversion tracking, audience targeting, retargeting, A/B testing and digital analytics.
  • Strong analytical and communication skills with the ability to turn data into actionable recommendations .

Preferred

  • Experience with YouTube/display advertising, advanced audience strategies, marketing automation and nurture programs, landing-page optimization or demand generation . Experience with XMO/cross-media optimization, AI-enabled lead qualification, emerging paid-media technology or insurance/financial services is a plus and offers room to grow in the role.

Benefits

  • Compressed 4 1/2-day work week (Half-Day Fridays)
  • No monthly premium cost for employee medical, life and disability insurance coverage
  • Paid time-off accrual, including annual rollover; and paid holidays
  • Competitive 401(k) plan with immediate vesting on Company contributions
  • Discounted on-site employee cafeteria
  • On-site exercise facility and company-provided exercise time
  • Tuition reimbursement and training incentives
  • Access to voluntary dental and vision insurance coverage
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Illinois Mutual

3.8 Glassdoor

Founded in 1910 by the same family that leads the company today, Illinois Mutual is a trustworthy, experienced and caring provider of life insurance, disability insurance and voluntary worksite insurance products. Committed to serving the middle market, we help people achieve and safeguard their financial security. Our Financial Strength Rating of A- (Excellent) by A.M. Best is just one way we demonstrate our strong commitment to our employees, agents and policyowners. Here are some others:•We pay 100% of our agents’ appointment fees.•To assist with work-life balance, employees have a compressed work week.•Employee benefits include complimentary medical, life and disability coverage.•Our sales support team answers agent calls in about 60 seconds on average and has an average of 15 years of experience.•We are proud to call our Company Great Place to Work-CertifiedTM, with 9 out of 10 employees calling Illinois Mutual a great place to work. Learn more about our CertificationTM at ilmutual.co/GPTW.Contact us today and experience and be a part of delivering the personal “family” service Illinois Mutual is known for providing.

Founded in 1910
Peoria, Illinois, USA
328 employees (6 in marketing)
1% recommend to a friend
1% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$69K/yr – $71K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
6 (2% of company)
Median Tenure
10.2 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
15.6K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$2.3K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
40.2%
Direct
39.3%
Referral
0.3%
Social
13.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~328
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Digital Paid Media & Performance Marketing Specialist

Illinois Mutual · Peoria, IL · Hybrid