Manager Media
Requisition ID: 173291
Career Group: Corporate Office Careers
Job Category: Media Strategy & Performance
Travel Requirements: 0 - 10%
Job Type: Full-Time
Country: Canada (CA)
Province: Ontario
City: Mississauga
Location: Tahoe Office
Postal Code: L4W 0C7
Our family of 134,000 employees and franchise affiliates share a collective passion for delivering exceptional shopping experiences and amazing food to all our customers. Our mission is to nurture the things that make life better – great experiences, families, communities, and our employees. We are a family nurturing families.
A proudly Canadian company, we started in a small town in Nova Scotia but we are now in communities of all sizes across this great country. With over 1500 stores in all 10 provinces, you may know us as Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, Foodland, FreshCo, Thrifty Foods, Lawtons Drug Stores or another of our great banners but we are all one extended family.
All career opportunities will be open a minimum of 5 business days from the date of posting.
Overview
The Manager, Media is a critical role in our Marketing Communications department, leading a passionate team and collaborating across cross-functional disciplines to build holistic campaigns and drive customer and business value. The successful candidate will lead strategic planning and ideation across our banner media investments and social media channels, with a focus on increasing brand affinity and consideration, driving traffic and sales, and building deep customer connections.
Job Description
- Lead the strategy, planning and delivery of all integrated campaign media investments across the business, including brand and enterprise-wide initiatives like sponsorship and community investment
- Own always-on social channels and amplification strategy, using a deep understanding of platforms and audiences to drive key results
- Manage key agency partner relationships and champion innovation, process opportunities, and optimizations
- Support a team of media specialists, fostering growth and development
- Collaborate across functions including brand strategy, customer insights, digital experience, strategic sourcing, content studio, finance, communications, and external partners
- Drive media effectiveness, using reporting and analytics to build stories grounded in insights that impact our investments, shared understanding of performance, and continuous improvement
- Drive cross-functional socialization and understanding of platforms and planning best practices and principles
Job Requirements
- Minimum of 8 years integrated campaign experience, ideally at a national level with industry or agency experience.
- Experience managing multi-million dollar budgets across all channels
- Comfort with all traditional and digital media tactics and evaluating outcome-focused audience-first plans
- Analytical with ability to establish priorities and distill key communications
- Collaborative with established success and passion for connecting cross-functional teams, building relationships, and influencing outcomes
- Excellent communication skills with comfort presenting to large and small groups across many levels
- Ability to navigate ambiguity
- Commitment to coaching and development
We offer teammates competitive total compensation packages that will vary by role and location. Some websites share our job opportunities and may provide salary estimates without our knowledge. These estimates are based on similar jobs and postings for general comparison, but these numbers are not provided by or monitored for accuracy by our organization. We look forward to discussing the specific compensation details relevant to this role with candidates who are selected to move forward in the recruitment process.
Sobeys is committed to accommodating applicants with disabilities throughout the hiring process and will work with applicants requesting accommodation at any stage of this process.
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We appreciate the interest from the Staffing industry however respectfully request no calls or unsolicited resumes from Agencies.