Integrated Marketing Manager
- Berea, OH, United States
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Job details
- Experience
- 3-5 years of experience in digital marketing, performance marketing or CRM/lifecycle marketing, ideally within sports or entertainment.
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
Overview
The Integrated Marketing Manager will lead the strategy for marketing messaging for the Club's owned-channels and full-funnel paid media, driving ticket revenue, fan affinity and 1:1 fan engagement across all available platforms. This role owns the day-to-day project management of the Club's Owned & Operated channels, including email, SMS, push notifications, radio, preseason broadcast, and creator/influencer partnerships. In addition, the position owns the planning, execution and optimization of paid campaigns across paid social and connected TV. The ideal candidate is data-driven, flexing between performance media tactics and brand-building through storytelling to support key revenue campaigns including season ticket renewals, schedule release, single-game on-sale, and group sales. This person will work cross-functionally with Ticket Sales, Content, Digital and league partners to ensure every channel is optimized against clear KPIs.
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as primary owner of strategy for marketing messaging for Owned & Operated (O&O) channels including email marketing, SMS, push notifications, team radio and TV broadcast spots, ensuring consistent messaging, cadence, and performance tracking across all platforms.
- Build messaging for email/SMS/push marketing calendar, including segmentation, automation flows, and A/B testing to maximize open, click, and conversion rates.
- Oversea campaign strategy and execution for season ticket renewals, schedule release, single-game ticket on-sale, and group sales promotions, aligning paid and owned tactics to hit revenue targets.
- Lead creative process with internal teams to develop channel-specific ad and O&O assets (video, static, radio scripts, push copy) tailored to platform best practices.
- Coordinate with league marketing team to leverage league-owned assets, co-branded creative, and shared media opportunities that extend the club's reach.
- Develop and manage performance marketing budgets and media plans, allocating spend across channels based on real-time performance data and seasonal priorities.
- Plan, execute, and optimize paid media campaigns across paid social (Meta, X, TikTok, LinkedIn), connected TV, programmatic display and SEO to drive ticket sales, membership, and fan affinity program growth goals.
- Manage vendor and agency relationships for paid media buying.
- Stay current on platform updates, privacy/tracking changes, and emerging channels (e.g., new social platforms, streaming inventory) and recommend where the Club should test or invest next.
- Integrate content creators and influencers for game-day activations, ticket promotions, and O&O content amplification.
- Monitor, analyze, and report on all campaign KPIs (CPA, ROAS, CTR, conversion rate, list growth, engagement rate) and translate insights into actionable optimization recommendations.
- Collaborate with Business Analytics team to ensure clean data flow between ticketing/CRM systems and marketing platforms.
- In tandem with Business Analytics team, build post-campaign recaps and season-long performance reports for marketing leadership, tying marketing activity directly to ticket revenue and fan engagement outcomes.
- Support larger marketing team on-site for gameday specific assistance for all home games and special events including, but not limited to, Affinity Marketing and other fan focused events.
Job Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Sport Management, Marketing, Communications, Business, or related field.
- 3-5 years of experience in digital marketing, performance marketing or CRM/lifecycle marketing, ideally within sports or entertainment.
- Excellent project management skills with the ability to run multiple concurrent campaigns in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
- Extensive experience with project tracking software, inputting and tracking marketing campaigns (i.e. Asana).
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for cross-functional collaboration with Ticket Sales, Digital, Business Analytics and Content teams along with League partners.
- Strong familiarity with email/SMS/push marketing platforms (e.g., Eloqua, Attentive ) and CRM/ticketing systems (e.g., Ticketmaster).
- Hands-on experience anchoring strategy for paid social campaigns, including budget management and platform-level optimization.
- Analytical mindset with proficiency in Excel/Sheets, Google Analytics, and platform ad managers (e.g., Meta Ads Manager).
- Experience integrating influencer/creator partnership campaigns and measuring content performance.
More about this job
Skills
- Sales
- Email marketing
- Media planning
- SEO
- CPA
- Leadership
- Digital marketing
- Project management
- Communication skills
- Collaboration
- Oracle Eloqua
- Budget management
- Microsoft Excel
- Google Analytics
- Meta Ads