Senior Manager, Social

Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

$120K/yr – $135K/yrSenior Level6+ years expFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive social strategy and execution across core platforms with data-driven content planning and cross-functional launches.

  • Own platform-specific strategies, content plans, and success metrics across core channels.
  • 6–9 years in social strategy and execution (agency or in-house; CPG preferred).
  • Lead agency/partner relationships to ensure strategic, on-brand outputs.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Shape and refine Simple Mills’ organic social strategy across Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and LinkedIn (with Pinterest, YouTube, X, and Threads as secondary platforms).
  • Translate integrated marketing plans into platform-specific strategies, content plans, and success measures, ensuring clarity in what each channel is driving.
  • Develop TikTok Shop strategy and execution in partnership with external partners, ensuring alignment to broader social and business goals.
  • Identify and test opportunities to evolve channel approach, including new formats, tools, and platform capabilities, bringing forward data-informed recommendations.
  • Partner closely with Brand and Integrated Marketing teams to support launches, retail moments, influencers, and key initiatives.
  • Lead content development in partnership with agency, ensuring output is strategic, insight-driven, and aligned to platform best practices, with a balance of hands-on input and directional leadership.
  • Guide development of monthly content calendars and production workflows, ensuring clarity in priorities, timelines, and deliverables (~40–50 assets/month).
  • Contribute to creative direction, developing repeatable formats, series, and storytelling approaches that build engagement over time.
  • Develop social-native creative ideas and content series in partnership with agency and influencers/creators that bring the Simple Mills brand and mission to life, translating complex topics (health, wellness, sustainability) into clear, engaging storytelling across formats.
  • Ensure a consistent, authentic brand voice while identifying and activating relevant cultural moments, contributing to content that resonates and drives engagement.
  • Define and track KPIs across platforms (e.g., engagement rate, reach, follower growth, video views, saves/shares), and own overall channel performance with a clear understanding of what is working and where to adjust.
  • Lead monthly and quarterly performance readouts, synthesizing key insights and translating them into actionable recommendations to continuously optimize content, cadence, and channel strategy.
  • Partner with paid media and influencer teams to amplify high-performing content and inform boosting strategy.
  • Oversee community engagement in partnership with our social agency, ensuring timely, on-brand interactions with the Simple Mills community (ie surprise & delights).
  • Leverage social listening and monitoring to track brand sentiment and identify emerging conversations, informing content and engagement opportunities.
  • Manage day-to-day agency partnership, providing clear direction, feedback, and prioritization.
  • Monitor agency performance against defined scope and KPIs, identifying opportunities to improve effectiveness.
  • Perform other duties as assigned
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Simple Mills

3.6 Glassdoor

Founded in 2012, Simple Mills is a leading provider of better-for-you crackers, cookies, snack bars, and baking mixes made with simple and nutritious high-quality ingredients that deliver extraordinary taste. Simple Mills has disrupted center-aisle grocery categories to become the #1 natural cracker, cookie, and baking mix brand and one of the top 5 snack bars in the natural channel with distribution in over 30,000 stores nationwide. Its mission is to revolutionize the way food is made to nourish people and planet. For more information, visit www.simplemills.com.

Founded in 2012
Chicago, Illinois, USA
175 employees (15 in marketing)
57% recommend to a friend
69% CEO approval

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Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
47.4K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$8.1M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
76.5%
Direct
15.3%
Referral
7.4%
Social
0.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~177

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
15 (9% of company)

Funding

Total Funding
$7.2M
Last Raise
$3M
Private Equity, 7 years ago

Funding History

  • Oct 2019
    Private Equity
  • Jan 2019
    Series Unknown • $3M
  • Feb 2016
    Series Unknown • $3M

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