Digital & Social Media Manager

Education:  Bachelor’s degree in Communications, English, Journalism, related field or equivalent.

Experience: 8+ years of experience in corporate or agency public relations, and crisis communications required.  Proven examples of successful public relation campaigns preferred.

1. Demonstrated ability to develop and lead corporate digital and social media in order to garner positive media coverage.

2. Superior verbal and written communication skills. 

3. Must have strong presentation skills, as well as poise under high-pressure crisis situations.  Must be able to react credibly and effectively with sudden changes in social media climate or crisis situations and effectively communicate with top management, international subsidiaries, media and the independent sales force.  

4. Excellent interpersonal skills, tact, diplomacy and a high level of professionalism.

5. Strong people management and budget skills in order to directly supervise experienced team members and outside agencies and their projects.  Requires ability to plan and orchestrate budgets for outside agency projects and provide concise, clearly defined objectives for Mary Kay projects and corporate image programs in order to execute a successful media campaign. 

6. Must be able to effectively juggle multiple tasks, projects and priorities while supervising experienced team members.

7. Strong business writing skills (business and AP style), plus proficiency in Word, Excel and PowerPoint.  Ability to perform database searches is also important. 

8. Domestic and international travel up to 10%-15% of the time required.