Senior Specialist, Global Social Media - REMOTE
Job Description
The role
This role will join the Omnichannel Strategy and Customer Experience team with two areas of focus:
- To join cross functional teams working on end-to-end global launches with an omnichannel focus
- To help continue to build Social Media capabilities within Human Health
The role will report to the Director, Enterprise Social Business, and has the following responsibilities:
Role Responsibilities (including but not limited to):
- Support a variety of key product launches and business priorities through top-tier social-first strategies and cross-functional collaboration
- Create tailored social content plans based on reaching and actively engaging target audiences
- Collaborate closely with US and Global Channel Content Leads on content creation and execution
- Work with internal creative teams and external agencies to maintain a social media center of excellence in content capabilities, using best practices and social-first thinking to develop channel strategies and content strategies that resonate with our customers and celebrates diversity and inclusivity in our creative and content
- Drive experimentation and advance our social strategy to include livestreaming, AR/VR and other innovative ways to connect with new audiences across a variety of key platforms
- Author best practices, POVs, and strategic planning guidelines that support new models and ways of working across the enterprise
- Nurture key partnerships with current and emerging social media and tech platforms to gain first-mover access, and develop innovative programs that drive our brand and business forward
- Provide social thought leadership and share content across a robust company affiliate social footprint
- Discover and share opportunities for commercial teams to utilize social media and related platforms to meet a variety of key business objectives
- Help create a pipeline of new ideas and methods of marketing including "test and learn" plans and analyze relative ROI possibilities
- Innovate, design, and implement global executive and employee advocacy programs
- Demonstrate a thorough understanding of existing and emerging communications channels and drive business outcomes through appropriate channel selection
- Collaborate and coach others on appropriate selection of channels depending on audience and desired outcomes
- Demonstrate highly effective writing and content creation skills
- Support the sharing of approved content via content management tools and publish across Global Social Platforms
- Assure content is medically and legally approved when required and attend Promotional Reviews as SME Develop and maintain Enterprise Social Media content calendars across corporate owned channels
- Leverage content calendaring tools for coordinating calendaring and uploading approved content
- Support collaboration with Promotional Review Team (PRT) members in development and approval of content as needed
- Lead internal social business communities to increase engagement, awareness, and brand safety
Education Minimum Requirement:
- Bachelor's Degree
Required skills:
- Minimum 3 to 5 years of Social Media Channel Management and familiar with social technology (Sprinklr, Hootsuite, Salesforce, Sprout Social etc.)
- Ability to analyze social data to inform and enhance future programs
- Experience driving both Paid and Organic promotion on Social media channels.
- Familiar with core and emerging social media platforms
- Proven experience working in highly matrixed environment of multiple teams and agencies.
- Ability to work on multiple projects at once, while meeting tight timelines
Preferred Skills:
- Experience working in a global capacity with ability to creating global strategies and content for social media is highly preferred for this role.
- Knowledge of social listening and market research.
- Good understanding of social sales strategy and technology
- Experience with SEO/SEM/Display advertising
- Familiar with employee advocacy technology and strategies
- Understanding of Omnichannel marketing
- Experience working with Influencers on social media platforms.
Location:
This position is location agnostic but may require up to 20% Travel to our Upper Gwynedd., PA or other office locations for collaboration, as needed.
Our Human Health Division maintains a "patient first, profits later" ideology. The organization is comprised of sales, marketing, market access, digital analytics and commercial professionals who are passionate about their role in bringing our medicines to our customers worldwide.
Who we are ...
We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.
What we look for ...
Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us-and start making your impact today.
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Employee Status:
Regular
Relocation:
No relocation
VISA Sponsorship:
Travel Requirements:
Flexible Work Arrangements:
Flex Time
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Number of Openings:
2
Requisition ID:R161601