Overview
Job Description:
As a Sr. Manager Social Media, you will be responsible for developing and implementing comprehensive social media strategies that drive engagement, brand awareness, and business growth of our JavaHouse® brand. The Senior Manager Social Media is a Player/Coach role – a blend of strategist, content creator, and data analyst, responsible for developing and implementing social media strategies to build brand presence, engage audiences, and drive business growth. This role offers a unique opportunity to work with a category-leading brand, with a strong focus on community building and new user acquisition.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Develop and execute social media strategies across all platforms
- Optimize social media activations for traffic, conversions, and member acquisition
- Analyze and report on social media performance
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams and agencies to improve the social media customer journey
- Regularly attend and actively participate in key meetings; actively execute and report on tactics to support brand priorities
- Oversee social media content planning, production publishing, and community management for all social platforms including but not limited to Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Pinterest, TikTok, etc.
- Ensure consistency with the brand’s voice and goals across owned content
- Collaborate with Splenda Creative agencies – internal and external
- Communicate monthly production plans and content calendars to internal stakeholders
- Collaborate with PR agency and Event team
- Network with micro-influencers online and in person at events
- Conduct social listening exercises, analyze content performance and regularly prepare reports on trends, insights and opportunities
- Proactively seek out minimal risk, high-impact opportunities to surprise and delight consumers on behalf of the brand or opportunities to produce agile content (reactive to real-time trends) and acts quickly on those opportunities
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s Degree required, MBA preferred with a focus on digital media technology, journalism, public relations, or marketing
- 5+ years of communications experience, including 3+ years leading corporate social media for a major brand
- Experience working with external agencies/agency teams
- Proven experience at developing and executing strategies that enhance organizational reputation with priority audiences
- Must be able to work onsite in Carmel, Indiana
Knowledge and Skills:
- Passionate about communication strategies designed to engage priority audience
- Loves digital culture, creating and managing content for social media, and is passionate about engaging in and growing our communities
- Strong storytelling, creative, editing, and project management skills
- Data-driven mindset with extensive experience with analytics and social listening tools
- Highly self-directed and resourceful with the ability to work independently, while also being a productive collaborator
- Excellent communication, writing and organizational skills – with strong attention to detail
- Ability to work in collaboration with both technical and non-technical staff to brainstorm, problem solve, and execute
- Possess these traits and be willing and able to operate with a rapid, iterative, continually learning mindset
This role is 100% onsite at our Carmel, Indiana corporate headquarters.