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Creative Marketing Manager

Conagra Brands · Chicago, IL · $109,000–$159,000 a year · Full time

Posted Sep 8, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026

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About your past

Tell me about a campaign you carried from concept to final execution. What nearly derailed it?

What they are checking: Whether they combine creative thinking with the operational follow-through this role demands.

Tell me about a time you had to deliver on a tight timeline with limited budget.

What they are checking: Whether they can prioritize what matters creatively and still ship on time.

How do you keep many projects with different agencies on track at the same time?

What they are checking: Whether they have a real system for workflows and timelines, given the account management emphasis.

What would you do

An agency delivers work that's well crafted but off-brand. How do you give feedback?

What they are checking: Whether they give clear, specific direction tied to the brief while keeping the partnership strong.

How would you decide which creators to partner with for a food brand?

What they are checking: Whether they weigh audience fit, authenticity, brand safety and measurable results over follower counts.

The Creative Director is out and a key decision needs to be made today. What do you do?

What they are checking: Whether they act as a trusted extension, making sound calls within their authority and documenting them.

What makes food content stand out in a crowded social feed?

What they are checking: Whether they have a point of view on craft and storytelling for the category.

About the work

You'd establish the visual and verbal expression of campaigns, including mood boards and creative territories. Walk me through how you build a creative territory from a brief.

What they are checking: Whether they can turn a strategic brief into distinct creative directions that a team can evaluate.

How do you manage approvals when legal, brand and the Creative Director all need to sign off?

What they are checking: Whether they build timelines that account for review rounds and keep governance from stalling work.

How do you measure whether content is working across social, digital and media?

What they are checking: Whether they connect engagement metrics to brand and business outcomes.

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The full job description

As published by Conagra Brands.

We are seeking an imaginative, strategic, and highly organized creative leader to help shape how our brands show up and connect with consumers across content, social, digital, media, communications, and consumer activations. Reporting to the Creative Director, you will support category-led demand creation by driving the operational execution of marketing campaigns, content production, brand partnerships, and communications initiatives. You will ensure projects move efficiently from planning through delivery by managing workflows, timelines, approvals, and governance processes while partnering with agencies, creators, and cross-functional teams. You will help deliver high-quality, on-brand content that supports business objectives and enhances consumer engagement. This role is ideal for a versatile creative thinker who understands how strong ideas, storytelling, and content come together and who also brings strong account management and operational skills. As a trusted extension of the Creative Director, you will support integrated marketing workstreams, guide internal and external partners, and carry creative ideas from early concept through final execution. A Taste of Your Responsibilities • Establish the visual and verbal expression of campaigns, including the look, tone, feel, messaging, mood boards, visual references, and creative territories. • Develop campaign concepts, shape narratives, write copy, create social assets, build storyboards, and recommend content formats and production techniques. • Provide creative direction across video, social, digital, eCommerce, media, and campaign assets, ensuring the work is distinctive, relevant, and aligned with brand standards. • Identify social trends, cultural conversations, emerging formats, and platform behaviors that can inspire timely brand content. • Build content calendars and roadmaps based on campaign plans, media needs, cultural opportunities, and business priorities. • Partner across internal teams and agencies to deliver connected creative across consumer touchpoints. • Support organic and paid social execution, including publishing, community engagement, social listening, optimization, and reporting. • Guide influencer, creator, talent, licensing, and brand partnerships from briefing and selection through content delivery and measurement. • Present and advocate for creative recommendations, respond to stakeholder feedback, and apply campaign results and consumer response to future work. • Serve as the primary day to day contact for assigned creative, social, production, media, and account agency partners. • Manage scopes, schedules, budgets, approvals, contracts, usage rights, assets, and final delivery. • Anticipate risks, resolve issues, and create clarity across teams to keep complex projects moving forward. • Communicate project status, creative recommendations, financial considerations, risks, and results to stakeholders and leadership. • Ensure all work meets brand, legal, governance, platform, confidentiality, and contractual requirements. Ingredients Required for Your Success • Bachelor's degree required. • 5+ years of experience in design, copywriting, art direction, content creation, creative marketing, integrated marketing, or a related field, with demonstrated experience operating at the level of a Senior Designer, Senior Copywriter, Senior Content Creative, Marketing Manager, Associate Creative Director, or equivalent role. • Portfolio demonstrating strong design fundamentals, strategic thinking, and multi-channel execution. • Strong account leadership, communication, presentation, and project management skills, including the ability to manage feedback, align stakeholders, and build trusted relationships. • Direct experience creating, editing, uploading, scheduling, publishing, and managing content within Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube, and YouTube Studio, along with a strong understanding of organic and paid social practices. • Experience managing integrated campaigns, agencies, production partners, budgets, timelines, cross functional teams, partner agreements, and usage rights. • Working familiarity with Adobe Creative Cloud, particularly Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, Acrobat, or Adobe Express, with the ability to review, adapt, or make light edits to creative assets. • Proficiency with Microsoft 365 applications, including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, Teams, and SharePoint. • Experience using generative AI tools for creative ideation, copy development, visual exploration, research, content adaptation, and workflow efficiency. • Experience managing budgets, reporting processes, governance requirements, and compliance standards. Number of Days in Office: 4 #LI-Hybrid #LI-MSL #LI-HL1 Compensation Pay Range:$109,000-$159,000 The annual salary listed above is the expected offering for this position. An employee’s actual annual salary will be based on but not limited to: location, relevant experience/level and skillset, while balancing internal Conagra employees’ equity. Conagra Brands will comply with applicable law regarding minimum salaries for exempt employees. Our Benefits We care about your total well-being and will support you with the following, subject to your location and role: • Health: Comprehensive healthcare plans, wellness incentive program, mental wellbeing support and fitness reimbursement • Wealth: Great pay, bonus incentive opportunity, matching 401(k) and stock purchase plan • Growth: Career development opportunities, employee resource groups, on-demand learning and tuition reimbursement • Balance: Paid-time off, parental leave, flexible work-schedules (subject to your location and role) and volunteer opportunities Our Company At Conagra Brands, we have a rich heritage of making great food. We aspire to have the most impactful, energized and inclusive culture in food. As a member of our 18,000+ person team across 40+ locations, you are empowered to reach your potential, make an impact and own your career. We're in the business of building champions – within our people and our iconic brands like Birds Eye®, Slim Jim® and Reddi-Wip®. Our focus on innovation extends beyond making great food, it also reflects our commitment to embracing new solutions that positively impact our team, the communities we serve and the health of our planet. Foodies Welcome. Conagra Brands is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, ethnic or national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, pregnancy, leave status, disability, veteran status, genetic information and/or any other characteristic or status protected by national, federal, state or local law. Reasonable accommodation may be made upon request.

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