Associate Marketing Manager I, Social Media

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Regular Full-Time Professional Learning Resources, Vernon Hills, IL, US

3 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $68,000.00 To $78,000.00 Annually

We are Learning Resources® , and learning is where we play. Voted one of the Chicago Tribune’s Top Workplaces, we’re a growing, family-owned company known for our award-winning educational toys, including top sellers Pretend & Play® Calculator Cash Register, Farmer’s Market Color Sorting Set and multiple Toy of the Year winners! We even help pets learn and grow through our pet brand Brightkins®.

If you’re curious, collaborative, and a kid at heart, you’ll feel right at home here. Join us in shaping the future of learning with our award-winning team!

We are currently seeking an Associate Marketing Manager to join our marketing team! Here’s what makes this team awesome; we operate at the intersection of social media, creator marketing and discovery commerce. Our work directly influences how millions of parents, teachers, and families discover our brands. We move fast, work collaboratively, and aren’t afraid to build something new! We're a highly collaborative team that combines creativity, analytics, and experimentation.

One day we're discussing Tik Tok trends and creator partnerships, the next we're building dashboards, launching campaigns, and presenting business insights to leadership. If you're someone who enjoys variety, ownership, and seeing the impact of your work, you'll fit right in.

• Partner with the Marketing Manager to turn social, content, creator, affiliate, and discovery commerce strategies into actionable operating plans, timelines, and workflows.
• Own and improve the integrated marketing calendar process to create visibility across social media, content, creator partnerships, affiliate marketing, Ecommerce, Sales, Creative Services, and agency partners.
• Manage planning systems, communication rhythms, and workflow processes that help marketing activities stay aligned on priorities, deliverables, timing, and campaign objectives.
• Maintain and implement reporting routines, dashboards, scorecards, and stakeholder updates that make marketing performance easy to understand and act on across teams.
• Analyze performance across social media, content, influencer, affiliate, and discovery commerce programs to identify trends, opportunities, and recommendations that support brand awareness, engagement, conversion, and business goals.
• Create clear communication processes, including regular status updates and recap emails, that help internal teams understand current priorities, campaign performance, upcoming initiatives, and business impact.
• Identify and implement process improvements that increase accountability, reduce friction, improve cross-functional communication, and help the team operate more efficiently as the function scales.
• Monitor consumer, creator, platform, and competitive trends to help inform future social operations, content planning, creator strategy, and reporting recommendations.
• Collaborate with Creative Services, Ecommerce, Sales, Marketing Coordinators, and agency partners to support integrated execution and ensure work is moving forward with clarity and alignment.

• Use your experience in marketing operations, project management, and cross-functional collaboration to develop and maintain integrated planning processes and workflows that improve team alignment, execution, and visibility across marketing initiatives throughout the year.
• Use your experience…