Creative Marketing Manager
At a glance
Mid-level Creative role at Conagra Brands (Careers US). Chicago · full-time · $109,000–$159,000 base.
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What you'll do
- You'll define campaign direction through messaging, visual references, narratives, and content formats
- You'll run production workflows covering calendars, roadmaps, approvals, budgets, rights, and final delivery
- You'll manage social publishing, community interaction, listening, optimization, reporting, and creator partnerships
- You'll lead agencies and internal teams, present recommendations, solve risks, and keep integrated work moving
What you bring
- A bachelor's degree plus at least five years in creative, content, design, copy, or integrated marketing work
- A portfolio showing strong design fundamentals, strategic thinking, and work across multiple channels
- Hands-on experience managing content in Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube, and YouTube Studio
- Experience overseeing agencies, production partners, budgets, schedules, teams, agreements, and usage rights
- Working knowledge of Adobe Creative Cloud and Microsoft 365, plus generative AI for creative work
Who this fits
You’ll suit this role if you combine creative judgment with strong account leadership, communication, presentation, and operational skills. The position is based in Chicago and requires four days in the office, with the Creative Director as your manager.
From the employer
- Establish the visual and verbal expression of campaigns, including the look, tone, feel, messaging, mood boards, visual references, and creative territories.
- Develop campaign concepts, shape narratives, write copy, create social assets, build storyboards, and recommend content formats and production techniques.
- Provide creative direction across video, social, digital, eCommerce, media, and campaign assets, ensuring the work is distinctive, relevant, and aligned with brand standards.
- Identify social trends, cultural conversations, emerging formats, and platform behaviors that can inspire timely brand content.
- Build content calendars and roadmaps based on campaign plans, media needs, cultural opportunities, and business priorities.
- Partner across internal teams and agencies to deliver connected creative across consumer touchpoints.
- Support organic and paid social execution, including publishing, community engagement, social listening, optimization, and reporting.
- Guide influencer, creator, talent, licensing, and brand partnerships from briefing and selection through content delivery and measurement.
- Present and advocate for creative recommendations, respond to stakeholder feedback, and apply campaign results and consumer response to future work.
- Serve as the primary day to day contact for assigned creative, social, production, media, and account agency partners.
- Manage scopes, schedules, budgets, approvals, contracts, usage rights, assets, and final delivery.
- Anticipate risks, resolve issues, and create clarity across teams to keep complex projects moving forward.
- Communicate project status, creative recommendations, financial considerations, risks, and results to stakeholders and leadership.
- Ensure all work meets brand, legal, governance, platform, confidentiality, and contractual requirements.
- Bachelor's degree required.
- 5+ years of experience in design, copywriting, art direction, content creation, creative marketing, integrated marketing, or a related field, with demonstrated experience operating at the level of a Senior Designer, Senior Copywriter, Senior Content Creative, Marketing Manager, Associate Creative Director, or equivalent role.
- Portfolio demonstrating strong design fundamentals, strategic thinking, and multi-channel execution.
- Strong account leadership, communication, presentation, and project management skills, including the ability to manage feedback, align stakeholders, and build trusted relationships.
- Direct experience creating, editing, uploading, scheduling, publishing, and managing content within Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube, and YouTube Studio, along with a strong understanding of organic and paid social practices.
- Experience managing integrated campaigns, agencies, production partners, budgets, timelines, cross functional teams, partner agreements, and usage rights.
- Working familiarity with Adobe Creative Cloud, particularly Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, Acrobat, or Adobe Express, with the ability to review, adapt, or make light edits to creative assets.
- Proficiency with Microsoft 365 applications, including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, Teams, and SharePoint.
- Experience using generative AI tools for creative ideation, copy development, visual exploration, research, content adaptation, and workflow efficiency.
- Experience managing budgets, reporting processes, governance requirements, and compliance standards.
Compensation
Pay Range:$109,000-$159,000The annual salary listed above is the expected offering for this position. An employee’s actual annual salary will be based on but not limited to: location, relevant experience/level and skillset, while balancing internal Conagra employees’ equity. Conagra Brands will comply with applicable law regarding minimum salaries for exempt employees.
Our Benefits
We care about your total well-being and will support you with the following, subject to your location and role:
Health: Comprehensive healthcare plans, wellness incentive program, mental wellbeing support and fitness reimbursement
Wealth: Great pay, bonus incentive opportunity, matching 401(k) and stock purchase plan
Growth: Career development opportunities, employee resource groups, on-demand learning and tuition reimbursement
Balance: Paid-time off, parental leave, flexible work-schedules (subject to your location and role) and volunteer opportunities
Our Company
At Conagra Brands, we have a rich heritage of making great food. We aspire to have the most impactful, energized and inclusive culture in food. As a member of our 18,000+ person team across 40+ locations, you are empowered to reach your potential, make an impact and own your career. We're in the business of building champions – within our people and our iconic brands like Birds Eye®, Slim Jim® and Reddi-Wip®.
Our focus on innovation extends beyond making great food, it also reflects our commitment to embracing new solutions that positively impact our team, the communities we serve and the health of our planet. Foodies Welcome.
Conagra Brands is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, ethnic or national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, pregnancy, leave status, disability, veteran status, genetic information and/or any other characteristic or status protected by national, federal, state or local law. Reasonable accommodation may be made upon request.
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