Senior Marketing Agency Manager- Paid Media Planning and Strategy

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Job Overview

Position Schedule : Full-Time

This job posting is anticipated to remain open for 30 days, from 29-Oct-2025. The posting may close early due to the volume of applicants.

The Senior Marketing Agency Manager plays a pivotal role in leading external agencies to develop and execute high-impact marketing strategies and campaigns that drive measurable outcomes for the firm, its clients, prospects, and branch teams. This role demands a strategic thinker with deep expertise in paid media planning and performance optimization, strong business acumen, and the ability to translate complex business goals into actionable marketing initiatives.

What you'll do...

• Strategic Leadership :

Develop and lead differentiated go-to-market paid media strategies for firm-wide and segment-specific initiatives. Ensure alignment with business, market, and practice management objectives.

Manage multimillion-dollar budgets and external agency relationships. Hold agencies accountable for delivering high-quality, performance-driven work on time and within budget.

Oversee paid media campaigns across channels including linear TV, YouTube, CTV, digital audio, paid social, programmatic, paid search, and custom sponsorships. Ensure campaigns are audience-targeted, data-informed, and integrated with broader marketing efforts.

Leverage complex data sets and insights to define audience segments, personalize messaging, and optimize media mix. Apply competitive intelligence to refine positioning and strategy.

Partner with analytics teams to evaluate campaign effectiveness using A / B testing, multivariate testing, predictive analytics, and attribution models (CMM, MTA). Continuously refine strategies to improve ROI.

Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders across brand, digital, product, compliance, and analytics teams. Ensure seamless integration of agency work with enterprise brand marketing (EBM) initiatives.

Stay ahead of industry trends, emerging technologies, and competitor activities. Identify opportunities to enhance campaign performance and client experience through new tools and platforms.

Edward Jones' compensation and benefits package includes medical and prescription drug, dental, vision, voluntary benefits (such as accident, hospital indemnity, and critical illness), short- and long-term disability, basic life, and basic AD&D coverage. Short- and long-term disability, basic life, and basic AD&D coverage are provided at no cost to associates. Edward Jones offers a 401k retirement plan, and tax-advantaged accounts : health savings account, and flexible spending account. Edward Jones observes ten paid holidays and provides 15 days of vacation for new associates beginning on January 1 of each year, as well as sick time, personal days, and a paid day for volunteerism. Associates may be eligible for bonuses and profit sharing. All associates are eligible for the firm's Employee Assistance Program. For more information on the Benefits available to Edward Jones associates, please visit our benefits page .

Hiring Minimum : $99200

Hiring Maximum : $168900

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Skills / Requirements

What you'll need...

What will make you stand out...

Current INTERNAL home-based associates : While this role is posted as hybrid, if selected and accepted, you may retain your home-based status . Edward Jones intends in good faith to continue offering the role as home-based, though future business or regulatory needs may require on-site work.

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About Us

Join a financial services firm where your contributions are valued. Edward Jones is a Fortune 500¹ company where people come first. With over 9 million clients and 20,000 financial advisors across the U.S. and Canada, we're proud to be privately-owned, placing the focus on our clients rather than shareholder returns.

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