Manager, Influencer & Partnerships
Chicago, IL - USA
Job Summary
As the Influencer and Partnerships Marketing Manager you will help manage and lead the planning and execution of the influencer and partner marketing channels to help drive new customer acquisition for Home Chef and Tempo. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record executing successful partner and influencer marketing campaigns at scale that drive results.
Detailed Responsibilities
Portfolio and Campaign Account Management:
- Manage assigned Partnerships from our portfolio including influencers top tier celebrities culinary talent entertainment studios media D2C brands and loyalty partners.
- Serve as the main point of contact for external partners communicating directly with influencers top tier-talent their teams (including agents managers and lawyers) entertainment and media teams brand marketing managers and account executives.
- Oversee launch plans for marketing partnerships collaborating with both the external partners and internal teams ensuring we come in on time on target and on budget through effective planning logistics and implementation.
- Ensure creative briefs reflect the contracted deliverables and are clear concise and align with the overall marketing strategy and objectives of the business.
- Present creative briefs to partners and their teams. Potential to be available on set or via video call for shoots.
- Lead logistical management including product shipments shoot dates coordination of partner asset submissions external channel set up (Meta ad access for dark posting) ensuring timelines and initiatives stay on track
- Communicate any feedback or changes by our creative and brand to partners before publishing to ensure brand alignment.
- Coordinate invoicing from partner to accounting and oversee campaign budgets
- Continually assess current marketing programs and development efforts to improve performance.
Business Development:
- Help manage and grow a pipeline of prospective partners and influencers ensuring the brand is always forward thinking and positioning ourselves for timely relevant partnerships that align with our narrative and ethos.
- Continually assess and research the cultural and media landscape using strategic and creative thinking to uncover new opportunities for the business.
- Cultivate and maintain strong lasting relationships with partners media companies entertainment studios brands top tier celebs influencers agents and managers.
- Help handle initial prospect and outreach including putting together deal terms to submit to external partners
- Assist and lead contract negotiations in conjunction with marketing leadership and legal.
- Negotiate commission structures promotional placements and exclusive partnerships
- Use analytics performance and feedback to inform outreach strategy and decision making.
Internal Cross-Functional Collaboration:
- Work closely with the Paid Media team to oversee and monitor the deployment timeline spend and performance of partnership campaigns.
- Ability to work and collaborate seamlessly across internal teams including brand legal accounting creative product and operations to ensure smooth execution bringing campaigns and activations to life across all channels.
- Work with the brand and creative teams on building creative briefs partner asset submission feedback and management of timelines direction and deployment.
- Collaborate with legal on contracts acting as brand representative to external negotiations and communication ensuring the brand is positioned for success.
- Responsible for presenting at partner meetings leading internal project status meetings and delivering oral and written presentations including weekly monthly and quarterly status meetings
Reporting & Accounting:
- Track and log weekly spend for influencers for weekly paid media meetings including flat fees and paid media spend.
- Manage Weekly Paid Media Ad Access and Ad Performance reporting.
- Own the influencer accounting process (manage and track invoicing in conjunction with Home Chefs accounting. Lead monthly collaboration meetings with accounting in order to help leadership manage the influencer budget ensuring effective allocation of resources to maximize ROI)
- Manage the end-to-end SAG (Screen Actors Guild) lifecycle including pre-production documentation and payment processing to maintain regulatory compliance working with our partners at Extreme Reach and CMC.
- Understanding of main KPIs: CPA and LTV. Able to navigate and make data driven decisions.
This position requires <10% travel.
Qualifications:
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge skill ability and/or other characteristics needed for this role. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities.
- Bachelors Degree in Marketing or Business-related field
- 4 years of creator and partnership marketing either at a consumer brand tech company or media agency with focus on growth marketing.
- Highly organized and detail-oriented (impeccable written and oral presentation skills is a must) with the ability to manage multiple cross-functional projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
- Proactive and creative problem-solver with the ability to take initiative and ownership of programs and relationships and oversee a diverse portfolio of accounts.
- Strong interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to communicate effectively (exceptional relationship-builder and negotiation skills) including with major stakeholders (i.e. senior leadership celebrity talent high powered agents and managers entertainment studios)
- A strategic thinker with solid decision-making ability who brings sound qualitative and quantitative analytical skills into their thought process and strategy
- Knowledgeable and familiar with social media advertising platforms (e.g. Meta Business Suite TikTok Ads Manager) especially with Partnership Ads (whitelisting dark-posting) and collaborating on paid social media campaigns with budgets of $1M
- Strong cultural awareness with interest in culinary entertainment health and wellness and emerging trends
- Proficient computer skills in MS Office; Google Drive
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Perks and benefits
- Candidates can experience Home Chef as a customer - enter promo code PEOPLE30 for $30 off your first order!
- Medical dental vision life and disability insurance available
- Paid holidays sick time and vacation time
- 401k program
- Flexible spending accounts for qualified medical dependent care parking or transit expenses
How We Work Together
We are humble team players.
We are warm and gracious with team members and customers. We seek feedback to improve ourselves - and respectfully listen to and accept input.
We are pragmatic next-level thinkers.
We come up with novel and unique ideas. We explore new strategies to avoid being constrained by conventional thinking.
We take ownership.
We approach ambiguous problems prepared to dive in get curious and learn more. We are results-driven always challenging ourselves to exceed goals.
Be at Home at Home Chef
We all show up authentically at Home Chef. Our team includes individuals with a variety of identities backgrounds and perspectives. You can trust that youll be able to bring your whole self to an inclusive and enjoyable workplace.
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