Senior Manager, Social Media, Partnerships & Experiential

Deerfield, IL (On-site)

$125K/yr – $219K/yrSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 5 weeks ago

Job Summary

Own and drive Walgreens social, influencer, and experiential marketing strategy across enterprise partners, shaping the content, partnerships, and activations that deliver engagement and business impact.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead enterprise organic social media strategy, content planning, channel governance, and performance optimization to drive engagement, brand affinity, and business impact.
  • Develop social-first content strategies and partner with Creative, agencies, creators, and production partners on content strategy, concept development, and execution.
  • Lead influencer and creator marketing strategies that expand reach, strengthen brand affinity, and build meaningful consumer connections.
  • Develop and execute experiential marketing programs that bring the Walgreens brand to life through engaging customer experiences and cultural moments.
  • Identify emerging consumer behaviors, platform trends, and cultural opportunities, translating insights into innovative marketing strategies, content, partnerships, and activations.
  • Partner with Brand & Retail Marketing, Media, Digital, Loyalty, Creative, PR, agency partners, and business stakeholders to integrate social, creator, and experiential channels into broader marketing strategies and campaigns.
  • Leverage consumer insights, analytics, and performance metrics to optimize strategies, drive innovation, and identify new opportunities for growth.
  • Partners with the Marketing Director in determining and implementing the strategy across the organization.
  • Partners with the management team to identify, develop, and implement appropriate approaches, processes, and tools that elevate the marketing group.
  • Identifies, evaluates and recommends marketing opportunities consistent with business objectives; provides marketing support to throughout the organization.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree and at least 4 years of marketing or advertising experience; OR, a High School/GED and at least 7 years of marketing or advertising experience.
  • Experience using tools, techniques for collecting, collating and analyzing information about existing or potential markets and market needs.
  • At least 2 years of experience of cross functional team leadership
  • Experience with project management (for example: planning, organizing, and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives).
  • Experience with Marketing Strategy development.
  • Experience with MS Office Suite.
  • At least 2 years of experience contributing to financial decisions in the workplace.
  • At least 2 years of direct leadership, indirect leadership and/or cross-functional team leadership.
  • Willing to travel up to 15% of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state).

Preferred

  • 8+ years of experience in social media, influencer marketing, creator marketing, experiential marketing, brand marketing, or integrated marketing.
  • Proven success developing and executing social, content, creator, or experiential strategies for consumer-facing brands.
  • Deep understanding of social platforms, creator ecosystems, consumer behavior, emerging trends, and modern marketing best practices.
  • Experience leading content strategy, creative concept development, and production through agencies, creators, and cross-functional partners.
  • Demonstrated ability to identify emerging trends, cultural moments, and audience insights and translate them into impactful content, experiences, partnerships, and marketing strategies.
  • Experience developing integrated campaigns across multiple marketing channels and stakeholder groups.
  • Strong strategic thinking, creative judgment, storytelling, and analytical capabilities.
  • Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
  • Experience managing agency relationships, external partners, and marketing budgets.

Benefits

  • The Salary below is being provided to promote pay transparency and equal employment opportunities at Walgreens. The actual hourly salary within this range that you will be offered will depend on a variety of factors including geography, skills and abilities, education, experience and other relevant factors. This role will remain open until filled. To review benefits, please click here jobs.walgreens.com/benefits. If you are applying on a job board or unable to click on the link, please copy and paste this URL into your browser jobs.walgreens.com/benefits.
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Founded in 1901, Walgreens (www.walgreens.com) has a storied heritage of caring for communities for generations and proudly serves nearly 9 million customers and patients each day across its approximately 8,500 stores throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico, and leading omni-channel platforms. Walgreens has approximately 220,000 team members, including nearly 90,000 healthcare service providers, and is committed to being the first choice for retail pharmacy and health services, building trusted relationships that create healthier futures for customers, patients, team members and communities.

Founded in 1901
Deerfield, Illinois, USA
92K employees (1,679 in marketing)
42% recommend to a friend
38% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$125K/yr – $219K/yr

Taken straight from the job posting.

Social Media median pay in the United States

$78K/yr

Most pay falls between $64K and $100K. Based on 4,031 salaries.

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
575 (1% of company)
Median Tenure
6.7 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
11

Funding

Total Funding
$25M
Last Raise
$25M
Grant, 2 years ago

Funding History

  • Jul 2024
    Grant • $25M

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
57.2M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$3.1M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
39.4%
Direct
54.1%
Referral
4.7%
Social
0.6%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~92K

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