Digital Marketing & External Communications Manager leading strategy execution across digital channels for CNA. Managing social media, content, media relations, and brand initiatives.
Responsibilities
Lead planning and execution of CNA’s digital marketing and external communications strategy, ensuring effective execution across enterprise and business unit initiatives.
Manage CNA’s social media programs, including paid, organic, and employee advocacy programs, to drive engagement and brand awareness.
Ensure consistent brand expression while enabling business-unit specific activation.
Execute and optimize paid search and display advertising programs across paid, owned, and earned channels to maximize ROI and business impact.
Manage resources, including agencies and vendors, to ensure consistent execution, scalability and cost effectiveness.
Advise Marketing leadership on digital reputation, external communications strategy, and emerging issues, including providing recommendations during high-visibility campaigns or reputational events.
Establish and enforce enterprise-level SEO and GEO (generative engine optimization) standards and governance, partnering with IT, integrated content and business teams on best practices for content, technical optimization, and linking strategies.
Lead CNA’s paid search marketing efforts, including planning, execution, and optimization across platforms such as Google and Bing.
Drive and continuously optimize CNA’s display advertising capabilities to support brand-building initiatives.
Advise and execute on CNA’s media relations strategy to enhance brand reputation and visibility across key markets.
Manage relationships with external PR agencies and media partners, ensuring consistent messaging and proactive engagement.
Lead the execution of a comprehensive awards and recognition program to elevate CNA’s industry presence and thought leadership.
Work alongside leadership and agency partners to identify relevant award opportunities and manage submission processes in collaboration with internal stakeholders.
Develop and manage external written communications, ensuring brand voice consistency and compliance with regulatory standards.
Collaborate with internal subject matter experts and leadership to craft compelling narratives that reinforce CNA’s market position.
Set enterprise KPIs and measurement frameworks for digital marketing and communications, ensuring transparent reporting and accountability across teams and channels.
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Advertising, Journalism, Media/PR, Digital Marketing, or related field/discipline or equivalent experience
Typically, a minimum of 7 years of experience in a digital marketing, external communications, journalism, or media/PR function, preferably in agency and/or corporate marketing settings
P&C insurance experience required
Skilled in developing high-quality written content for digital channels, press releases, and external communications that reflect organizational voice and tone
Advanced level of understanding of search marketing best practices, digital campaign management, and search engine provided campaign management tools (Google Ads, etc.)
Advanced understanding of social media best practices (paid, organic and employee advocacy), B2B applications, engagement metrics and campaign performance
Experience using organic search diagnostic/monitoring tools (Google, Search Console, Webmaster Tools, SEMrush or similar)
Hands on experience working with Marketo (or similar marketing automation tools), as well as an understanding of key automation features including scheduling, segmentation, cloning and success criteria
Experience and working knowledge of analytics and tag-management tools (Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Looker and Power BI)
Strong organizational skills including the ability to prioritize, coordinate and manage multiple projects and project teams.
Benefits
Health insurance
401(k) matching
Paid time off
Professional development opportunities
Flexible work arrangements
Job title
Digital Marketing, External Communications Manager
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