Manager, Social Media

Indianapolis, IN (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableManager7+ years exp

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive social media strategy and leadership for a brand, owning campaigns to grow followers, engagement, and sales.

  • Own strategy development, campaign planning, and KPI-driven optimization.
  • Must-have: 7+ years in digital marketing with social media and 5+ years leading teams.
  • Standout: Experience leading influencer programs and product gifting/seeding.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develop social media strategies that expand brand awareness, drive customer growth and ultimately increase store sales.
  • Serve as the lead business driver of social media channels to devise, monitor and optimize campaigns to meet KPIs.
  • Drive innovation across all social channels, remaining up to date on new technology, platforms, macro trends and competitor activities to apply to strategic plans.
  • Expand the fan base across the brand’s owned social channels by attracting new followers and transforming current followers into brand advocates.
  • Drive meaningful engagement across all relevant social channels.
  • Devise unique and creative social media campaigns to drive value while aligning with the brand voice.
  • Oversee and manage planning, content calendars, reporting, and optimizations across all social platforms.
  • Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to ensure goals are aligned.
  • Lead Influencer relationship
  • Lead product gifting/seeding

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree
  • 7+ years Digital Marketing experience with a focus in Social Media.
  • 5+ years people leader experience
  • Well versed in social media including new and emerging platforms
  • Strong analytical, critical thinking and project management skills
  • Strong leader and team player
  • A passion for social media
  • Experience working with and promoting brand initiatives
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills; strong editing skills with attention to detail
  • Enthusiastic team player with the flexibility to re-prioritize, multi-task and switch tasks fluidly.
  • Well organized with attention to detail and ability to follow-through.

Preferred

  • The ideal candidate will have a strong background in strategic planning and campaign implementation within the digital and social media space.
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Lids

Sitting at the cross roads of fan and fashion, Lids provides headwear and apparel across North America, Europe, and Australia.Operating out of Indianapolis, IN, Lids retail stores and affiliated concepts offer officially licensed headwear from collegiate teams and major professional sports teams, as well as branded headwear and other specialty fashion categories in the latest styles and trends in over 1,200 locations.------- Recruitment Fraud Alert ------- • Lids never requests a transfer of money for any purpose during or after the hiring process. • The hiring process involves at least one interview (virtual or in-person). Lids will not request for or conduct an interview on any instant messaging applications.• The Lids Recruitment team corresponds from email addresses with the domain “@lids.com”. However, there is also a possibility of scammers displaying the sent email domain address as “@lids.com” fraudulently. Nevertheless, receiving emails will be possible only with the legitimate “@lids.com” domain. In case any generic email ID ending with Gmail/Yahoo domain is copied while receiving a job offer or interview call, please be alert to the likelihood of a scammer.• The Lids Recruitment team does not request or require personal documents like bank account details, tax forms, or credit card information as part of the recruitment process.If you are unsure about the source of job offer, please login to the Career section on the Lids website to verify the job offer or application. If you have been a victim of recruitment fraud, please contact law enforcement.

Founded in 1995
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
5K employees (100 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
3.9M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$49.6K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
43.8%
Direct
48.4%
Referral
4.6%
Social
2.6%
Paid
0.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~5K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
62 (1% of company)

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