Manager, Media (Consumer Demand Gen) will play a key role in advancing how questhealth.com approaches brand awareness and demand creation, primarily across mid and upper funnel channels including paid social, display, video, and emerging platforms.
This role sits at the intersection of strategy, execution, creative, and measurement, helping shape how QuestHealth.com drives efficient and incremental growth across the marketing funnel. The position combines hands on campaign leadership with strategic ownership, focusing on connecting media investments to meaningful business outcomes through clear insights, rigorous testing, and cross functional collaboration.
Reporting to the Director of Media, this individual will help define how demand creation efforts are evaluated, optimized, and scaled across the organization. They will work closely with Analytics, Brand, Creative, Merchandising, and Web teams to ensure media investments are aligned to business goals and supported by strong measurement frameworks. This role combines hands on execution with strategic leadership.
The ideal candidate brings deep experience in Paid Social, particularly Meta (Facebook & Instagram), along with a strong understanding of full funnel marketing strategy. They are comfortable translating complex performance inputs into clear investment decisions and have a strong point of view on creative, testing, measurement, and channel strategy. They are also excited by emerging technologies, including AI driven tools and automation, that can improve execution, insights, and operational efficiency.
ResponsibilitiesTo be successful in this role, you will:
Mid and Upper Funnel Strategy
- Define and evolve how paid social, display, video, and emerging channels contribute across the marketing funnel, with a strong emphasis on scaling awareness and consideration efforts that drive incremental and durable growth. Guide channel direction, investment priorities, and audience strategy while remaining closely connected to in platform execution and performance optimization.
Measurement & Performance Alignment
- Partner closely with Analytics to shape how mid and upper funnel media performance is evaluated, ensuring investments are tied to meaningful business outcomes such as revenue, ROAS, CAC, and overall return on investment. Help support and operationalize measurement approaches such as matched market testing, lift studies, and other incrementality focused methodologies, while translating complex performance signals into clear investment recommendations and a credible view of media impact across search, direct, and organic channels.
Performance Insights & Communication
- Synthesize platform, funnel, and business performance into clear, actionable insights for leadership, connecting awareness, engagement, consideration, and conversion metrics to broader business outcomes. Communicate performance trends, optimization opportunities, and measurement learnings in a concise and credible way that can influence decision making across Marketing, Analytics, Finance, and executive leadership.
Test & Learn Approach
- Build and execute a structured testing roadmap across creative, audiences, landing pages, customer journeys, platform optimizations, and emerging capabilities. Establish clear hypotheses and success metrics tied to both platform and business performance, while ensuring learnings around incrementality, creative effectiveness, and media contribution are consistently captured and applied to future investment decisions.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Partner closely with Brand, Creative, Analytics, Merchandising, Web, and external partners to ensure alignment across media strategy, creative development, promotions, customer experience, and measurement. Bring a strong point of view on creative quality and performance, while helping drive continuous optimization across messaging, formats, landing pages, and overall customer journeys to improve engagement and conversion.
Channel Expansion & Innovation
- Evaluate and scale opportunities across channels such as YouTube, CTV, display, and emerging platforms using a structured, data driven approach focused on incremental reach, engagement, and business impact. Identify and assess new platform capabilities, AI driven tools, automation opportunities, and beta programs that can improve media efficiency, insights, scalability, and overall marketing performance.
Team Leadership
- Lead and support a Senior Specialist responsible for day-to-day campaign execution across mid and upper funnel channels, while remaining actively involved in campaign strategy, setup, optimization, and performance management as needed. Ensure strong alignment between strategic priorities, execution quality, testing initiatives, and overall business goals.s.
- 6 to 8 years of experience in performance marketing, growth marketing, or media strategy roles, with deep expertise in Paid Social, particularly Meta
- Strong understanding of full funnel marketing strategy across awareness, consideration, and conversion, including experience with upper funnel channels such as YouTube, CTV, display, or other video driven environments
- Hands on experience managing and optimizing campaigns within platforms, with the ability to balance execution, strategy, creative direction, and performance analysis
- Strong understanding of business and performance metrics, including revenue, ROAS, CAC, engagement, and conversion metrics, with the ability to connect media investments to measurable business outcomes
- Experience partnering with Creative, Analytics, Brand, Product, Merchandising, and Web teams to drive performance, optimize customer journeys, and improve landing page and creative effectiveness
- Strong analytical, communication, and storytelling skills, with the ability to translate complex or ambiguous data into clear recommendations and actionable insights for stakeholders and leadership
- Experience or exposure to AI driven tools, automation, and emerging marketing technologies is a plus
- Experience measuring incrementality and media impact through approaches such as matched market testing, lift studies, MMM, or related methodologies is a plus
- Experience incorporating lifetime value into media strategy and optimization is a plus
- Experience in healthcare or regulated industries is a plus
- B2C or DTC experience required
Education
- Bachelor’s Degree BA/BS in marketing or the equivalent in education and experience
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Skills Required
- 6 to 8 years of experience in performance marketing, growth marketing, or media strategy
- Deep expertise in Paid Social, particularly Meta (Facebook & Instagram)
- Strong understanding of full funnel marketing strategy across awareness, consideration, and conversion
- Hands-on experience managing and optimizing campaigns within ad platforms
- Experience with upper-funnel channels such as YouTube, CTV, display, or video environments
- Ability to connect media investments to business metrics (revenue, ROAS, CAC, LTV) and translate performance into recommendations
- Experience partnering with Creative, Analytics, Brand, Product, Merchandising, and Web teams
- Strong analytical, communication, and storytelling skills to present insights to leadership
- B2C or DTC experience
- Bachelor's degree in marketing or equivalent experience
- Experience or exposure to AI-driven tools, automation, and emerging marketing technologies
- Experience measuring incrementality and media impact (matched market testing, lift studies, MMM)
- Experience incorporating lifetime value into media strategy and optimization
- Experience in healthcare or regulated industries
What We Do
Quest Diagnostics (NYSE: DGX) empowers people to take action to improve health outcomes. Derived from the world's largest database of clinical lab results, our diagnostic insights reveal new avenues to identify and treat disease, inspire healthy behaviors and improve health care management. Quest annually serves one in three adult Americans and half the physicians and hospitals in the United States, and our 47,000 employees understand that, in the right hands and with the right context, our diagnostic insights can inspire actions that transform lives. The company offers physicians the broadest test menu (3,000+ tests), is a pioneer in developing innovative new tests, is the leader in cancer diagnostics, provides anatomic pathology (AP) services, & interpretive consultation through its medical & scientific staff of about 900 M.D.s & Ph.D.s. The company reported 2020 revenues of $9.44 billion. Quest Diagnostics offers the most extensive clinical testing network in the U.S., with laboratories in most major metropolitan areas, & in Mexico, the UK & India. The company also operates four esoteric laboratories, 40 outpatient AP laboratories, & 160 smaller, rapid-response laboratories. Patients may have specimens collected in any of the company’s approximately 2,250 patient service centers. On a typical workday, testing is performed for about 550,000 patients. Quest Diagnostics empowers healthcare organizations & clinicians with state-of-the-art connectivity solutions. The company is the leading provider of pre-employment drugs-of-abuse screening for employers & risk assessment services for the life insurance industry. It is the world’s 2nd largest provider of clinical trials testing for new pharmaceuticals. More information is available at www.questdiagnostics.com. Language Assistance / Non-Discrimination Notice Asistencia de Idiomas / Aviso de no Discriminación 語言協助 / 不歧視通知 www.QuestDiagnostics.com/home/nondiscrimination






