Digital Marketing Manager
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From your PASSION to ours
Karoun Dairies, part of the Lactalis family of companies, is currently hiring a Digital Marketing Manager based in San Fernando, California.
About the Role
We are seeking a Consumer-Focused Digital Marketing Manager with a strong background in CPG marketing (preferably dairy) to lead our digital initiatives. This role combines creativity, analytics, and technology to deliver impactful campaigns that resonate with consumers and drive measurable results. You will manage social media, paid advertising, SEO/SEM, content creation, and AI-driven optimization across multiple platforms.
From your EXPERTISE to ours
Key responsibilities for this position include:
Pillars To Success:
- A key contact for Digital marketing, working with the senior management to develop trade and digital strategies and releases, ensuring activity is within budgets and deployed appropriately to support key messages / campaigns.
- Responsible for managing the delivery of all B2B Digital marketing communication, including email / social /website, ensuring tone of voice is representative of the Karoun and Portfolio brands whilst being agent appropriate and engaging.
- Develops and executes B2B Digital marketing strategies to boost sales via retailers, distributors and wholesalers.
- Acts as a liaison between Company brand marketing and sales to create persuasive digital marketing technical and strategical materials and deployments to fruition per the strategical plans and forecasts.
- Manage trade promotions with digital technical resources, tools, and measures as an advocate of the goal and mission, the same for in-store presence.
- Analyze performance metrics of digital marketing related deployments and offer strategic roadmaps with actionable planning.
- Consumer-Centric Strategy: Develop and execute digital marketing strategies based on consumer insights and behavior.
- Social Media & Paid Ads: Manage Meta Ads, Google Ads, and other paid campaigns. Implement targeting and retargeting, optimize pixels/tags, and ensure accurate tracking.
- SEO & Keyword Analytics: Conduct keyword research, optimize content for SEO, and manage SEM campaigns to improve visibility and traffic.
- Content Creation & Virality: Produce engaging content (posts, videos, blogs) designed to connect with consumers and encourage sharing. Identify influencers and manage collaborations.
- AI-Driven Optimization: Use AI tools for predictive analytics, automated scheduling, keyword analysis, and campaign performance optimization.
- Analytics & Reporting: Track KPIs such as views, reach, GRPs, CPM, and use tools like Google Analytics and heatmaps to improve user experience and conversions.
- Retail & Marketplace Integration: Manage campaigns for Instacart, Walmart, and Amazon Fresh, including paid ads and performance adjustments.
- Email Marketing & Automation: Build and manage email campaigns, leveraging automation for efficiency.
- Trend Monitoring: Stay ahead of emerging digital marketing and AI trends.
- Accountable for ensuring all support material for use in B2B and B2C trade comms is created and distributed in a timely manner and on budget.
- Work with the senior manager to develop multi-channel trade communication plans, using insightful analytics of performance and aligning with brand activity to deliver tailored comms suitable for the message being delivered.
- Maintain an external perspective and awareness of trade marketing activity other organizations are carrying out within and outside of the industry. Using any insight gained to inform Karoun’s trade and marketing related activities.
- Take the lead on building relationships with Karoun and portfolio brands to share best practice and agent insight.
- Represent as digital marketing lead in key partnership team (sales) events, ensuring the partnership team is aware of upcoming plans, activity and news from digital marketing. Similarly, will then also represent the voice of the marketing/sales team in related meetings.
- Have ownership of ensuring the respective teams have a thorough and good understanding of digital brand activities and information. Regularly meet and work relevant business agents to better plan and deliver such related digital marketing campaigns that are optimized for the desired delivering of commercial, sales and brand objectives.
- Proactively work with internal and external partners and business relation colleagues to create and deliver assets than can be used where possible.
- Share best practice and learnings from and with colleagues and stakeholders.
- Advocates and supports Head of Marketing and Sales Management as and when needed.
- Provide the sales team with support on proofing key digital marketing materials.
- Ensure that the Marketing team and others are kept well informed of current projects and priorities. Strategic awareness and dual consideration to how we are communicating brand messages, commercial priorities and key agents process updates to the team and other dept. partners.
This description reflects management’s assignment of essential functions, it does not proscribe or restrict the tasks that may be assigned.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these Essential Duties and Responsibilities.