Digital Marketing Manager

Central Bank; Missouri; On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Central Bank is seeking a highly creative Digital Marketing Manager, Social & Digital Media to lead media planning, management, and optimization across digital channels for all business lines and markets, with a strong Mortgage focus.

You will manage two Social Media Coordinators, partner with agencies, and drive AI-driven optimization for indexing and discovery, while ensuring compliance with banking regulations and brand voice.

Responsibilities

• Own media planning, management, and optimization of digital media across Central Bank's business lines and markets, ensuring budgets and channel mix align to business priorities.
• Serve as the day-to-day lead with agency partners on media planning, campaign execution, and ongoing optimization, holding partners accountable to performance benchmarks and timelines.
• Drive social media strategy and planning bank-wide, with particular emphasis on Mortgage, translating business goals into channel-specific content and campaign plans.
• Manage and develop two Social Media Coordinators, setting priorities, reviewing content calendars, and coaching toward stronger execution and career growth.
• Plan, launch, and optimize paid social and digital media campaigns across Meta and other platforms, using platform tools and reporting to manage spend and performance.
• Manage organic and paid social publishing, listening, and reputation workflows using tools such as Hootsuite and SOCi across all Central Bank markets and locations.
• Manage the digital media budget across the holding company and all markets, tracking spend against plan, reallocating investment toward top-performing channels and campaigns, and maximizing efficiency to ensure the company stays on budget.
• Monitor, analyze, and report on digital and social performance using analytics platforms, translating data into clear recommendations for stakeholders and leadership.
• Lead ongoing testing and experimentation across creative, audience, and channel strategy, building a disciplined test-and-learn approach that scales what works.
• Advance Central Bank's approach to social AI optimization, improving how content is indexed, cited, and surfaced in AI-driven search and social discovery experiences.
• Manage multiple concurrent campaigns across business lines, balancing competing priorities and deadlines with strong attention to detail.
• Ensure all social and digital media activity complies with banking regulatory, brand, and accessibility requirements, maintaining a consistent brand voice and tone across all channels.
• Partner with content, creative, analytics, and development teams to align social and media strategy with broader digital marketing initiatives and the overall marketing calendar.
• Define and communicate digital and social media KPIs and ROI metrics through regular reporting, data visualization, and presentations to stakeholders and leadership.
• Build consensus and work effectively across a wide range of business-line stakeholders, gaining buy-in for social and media strategy across the organization.
• Stay current on platform updates, algorithm changes, and emerging trends across social, paid media, and AI-driven search, proactively adjusting strategy to keep Central Bank ahead of the curve.

Job description

About Central Bancompany

Central Bancompany is a community-focused banking organization committed to providing exceptional financial services while maintaining strong relationships with the customers, communities, and markets we serve. We value collaboration, integrity, innovation, and professional growth, creating an environment where employees can make a meaningful impact while advancing their careers.

About Central Bancompany

Central Bancompany is a community-focused banking organization committed to providing exceptional financial services while maintaining strong relationships with the customers, communities, and markets we serve. We value collaboration, integrity, innovation, and professional growth, creating an environment where employees can make a meaningful impact while advancing their careers.

Position Summary

Are you a highly creative, detail-oriented, results-driven digital marketing professional? This is an opportunity to sit at the center of an established, sophisticated marketing team and lead how Central Bank shows up across social and digital media, working closely with partners across the bank's business lines and markets.
The Digital Marketing Manager, Social & Digital Media owns media planning, management, and optimization across digital channels for all business lines and markets and sets the strategy and day-to-day direction for social media, with a strong emphasis on Mortgage while managing two Social Media Coordinators. The Manager is the primary internal owner of digital media performance, partnering closely with agency partners on planning, execution, and optimization of campaigns, and is expected to bring a test-and-learn mindset that pushes Central Bank's media thinking forward in an omni-channel, fast-evolving platform environment. This role also leads the bank's approach to optimizing social content for AI-driven discovery, improving how Central Bank is indexed, cited, and mentioned by AI systems and social platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Own media planning, management, and optimization of digital media across Central Bank's business lines and markets, ensuring budgets and channel mix align to business priorities.
• Serve as the day-to-day lead with agency partners on media planning, campaign execution, and ongoing optimization, holding partners accountable to performance benchmarks and timelines.
• Drive social media strategy and planning bank-wide, with particular emphasis on Mortgage, translating business goals into channel-specific content and campaign plans.
• Manage and develop two Social Media Coordinators, setting priorities, reviewing content calendars, and coaching toward stronger execution and career growth.
• Plan, launch, and optimize paid social and digital media campaigns across Meta and other platforms, using platform tools and reporting (e.g., Meta Ads Manager) to manage spend and performance.
• Manage organic and paid social publishing, listening, and reputation workflows using tools such as Hootsuite and SOCi across all Central Bank markets and locations.
• Manage the digital media budget across the holding company and all markets, tracking spend against plan, reallocating investment toward top-performing channels and campaigns, and maximizing efficiency to ensure the company stays on budget.
• Monitor, analyze, and report on digital and social performance using analytics platforms, translating data into clear recommendations for stakeholders and leadership.
• Lead ongoing testing and experimentation across creative, audience, and channel strategy, building a disciplined test-and-learn approach that scales what works.
• Advance Central Bank's approach to social AI optimization, improving how content is indexed, cited, and surfaced in AI-driven search and social discovery experiences.
• Manage multiple concurrent campaigns across business lines (Consumer, Commercial, Mortgage, and others), balancing competing priorities and deadlines with strong attention to detail.
• Ensure all social and digital media activity complies with banking regulatory, brand, and accessibility requirements, maintaining a consistent brand voice and tone across all channels.
• Partner with content, creative, analytics, and development teams to align social and media strategy with broader digital marketing initiatives and the overall marketing calendar.
• Define and communicate digital and social media KPIs and ROI metrics through regular reporting, data visualization, and presentations to stakeholders and leadership.
• Build consensus and work effectively across a wide range of business-line stakeholders, gaining buy-in for social and media strategy across the organization.
• Stay current on platform updates, algorithm changes, and emerging trends across social, paid media, and AI-driven search, proactively adjusting strategy to keep Central Bank ahead of the curve.

What Success Looks Like

Within the first year, this person will have established a clear, business-line-aligned media planning process; strengthened agency accountability and campaign performance; built a strong, well-coached Social Media Coordinator team; and put in place a repeatable test-and-learn framework that measurably improves social and digital media performance, with Mortgage social strategy as an early proof point.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND WORKING CONDITIONS

This role works in a standard office environment and involves extended periods at a computer, regular communication in person and by phone, and occasional lifting of items up to 25 pounds. The Bank will provide reasonable accommodations to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.

Additional Requirements

Regular and reliable attendance and punctuality are required for this position. Must be able to perform the essential functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation.