Digital Marketing Senior Specialist
Elgin, Kane County, Illinois, 60120, USA
Listed on 2026-10-31
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Marketing / Advertising / PR
Digital Marketing, Marketing Communications, Social Media Marketing
Cox Automotive - USA
Job Family Group Marketing Job Profile Digital Marketing / Communications Senior Specialist Management Level: Individual Contributor Flexible Work OptionCan work remotely but need to live in the specified city, state, or region
TravelYes, 5% of the time
Work ShiftDay
CompensationCompensation includes a base salary in the range of $74,000.00 - $. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate’s knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.
Job DescriptionThis position is remote/work from home. You need to reside within the Eastern or Central Time Zones. If near our Atlanta office, the role will be hybrid.
Senior Specialist, Digital Marketing / Communications - Email, SMS & Organic SocialConducts day-to-day channel operations for email marketing, SMS communications, and organic social media across Cox Automotive's enterprise B2B portfolio. This role independently executes campaigns for a broad range of brands and products, handling end-to-end campaign development including audience strategy, content optimization, journey design, testing, and performance analysis. The Senior Specialist identifies opportunities to improve engagement and deliverability, proactively recommends new strategies and content approaches, and contributes to the innovation roadmap for channel technologies and platforms.
The ideal candidate brings demonstrated expertise in email marketing, SMS, and organic social execution, with the ability to independently run complex, multi-brand campaigns and proactively recommend improvements. This individual partners closely with 82 auction locations and Key Account Marketing teams, creative teams, marketing automation specialists, analytics, agency partners, and fellow digital marketing professionals to translate business objectives into high-performing channel campaigns, and identifies new industry trends and technologies that can strengthen Cox Automotive’s owned channel presence.
You’ll Do Email Campaign Execution & Optimization
Conduct end-to-end email campaign execution for a broad range of brands and products, including audience segmentation, journey design, template development, content optimization, QA, deployment, and post-send analysis. Design nurture programs for different audience segments and lifecycle stages, building progressive engagement sequences that drive conversion and retention. Implement progressive profiling strategies to enrich contact data over time and improve personalization capabilities across email campaigns.
Execute re-engagement campaigns for inactive subscribers, testing content approaches, subject lines, and send timing to recover audience attention. Proactively recommend new email strategies, content formats, and automation approaches to amplify engagement and drive toward business objectives. Implement deliverability monitoring practices including sender reputation tracking, domain health checks, and ISP feedback loop analysis.
Execute SMS campaigns across a broad range of brands, handling message creation, audience targeting, compliance management, and delivery optimization. Coordinate SMS and email orchestration to optimize cross-channel messaging sequences, managing timing and frequency to prevent audience fatigue. Design trigger-based SMS programs for time-sensitive updates, alerts, and event-driven communications across the customer lifecycle. Monitor carrier-level delivery performance, identifying and resolving issues by carrier to maintain high deliverability rates.
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