Digital Marketing Manager

Karoun Dairies LLC • Los Angeles, CA

6d

About The Position

Ready for more than just a job? Build a career with purpose. At Lactalis in the USA, we believe in promoting from within and giving our employees meaningful opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Whether you’re just starting out or bringing years of experience, we’ll provide the tools and support you need to succeed.
As the world leader in dairy, Lactalis is a family-owned company with over 85,000 pragmatic and ambitious professionals across the globe. Each day, we’re proud to produce award-winning dairy products that bring people together.
In the US, we proudly offer an unrivaled house of beloved brands, including Galbani® Italian cheeses and ricotta, Président® specialty cheeses and butters, Kraft® natural and grated cheeses, Breakstone’s® cottage cheese, Cracker Barrel®, Black Diamond® cheddar, and Parmalat® milk. Our yogurt portfolio includes siggi’s®, Stonyfield Organic®, Brown Cow™, Oui®, Yoplait®, Go-Gurt®, :ratio®, Green Mountain Creamery®, and Mountain High®, along with a growing family of ethnic favorites like Karoun®, Gopi®, and Arz®.
At Lactalis, we live by our core values—Ambition, Engagement, and Simplicity. We foster a workplace where innovation thrives, diverse perspectives are celebrated, and everyone’s unique background and ideas are valued.
Even if you don’t meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply. We want to hear about your PASSION, your STORY, and how your EXPERTISE can help us shape the future of dairy.

From your PASSION to ours
Karoun Dairies, part of the Lactalis family of companies, is currently hiring a Digital Marketing Manager based in San Fernando, California.

About the Role
We are seeking a Consumer-Focused Digital Marketing Manager with a strong background in CPG marketing (preferably dairy) to lead our digital initiatives. This role combines creativity, analytics, and technology to deliver impactful campaigns that resonate with consumers and drive measurable results. You will manage social media, paid advertising, SEO/SEM, content creation, and AI-driven optimization across multiple platforms.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Digital Marketing, Marketing relevant degree or similar level qualifications or equivalent related field/experience.
• 5+ years of experience in digital marketing with expertise in social media, paid ads, SEO/SEM, and analytics.
• CPG marketing experience required; dairy category experience strongly preferred.
• Proficiency in Meta Ads Manager, Google Ads, Google Analytics, SEO tools, and AI-powered marketing platforms.
• Strong understanding of pixels/tags, heatmap analysis, and campaign KPIs.
• Experience managing campaigns for retailers and marketplaces.
• An understanding of marketing communications practices and techniques
• Marketing communication experience across
• managing various channels including advertising
• Relationship management experience skills
• Relevant legislative understanding
• Proven experience presenting to a variety of key stakeholders
• Exemplary interpersonal and leadership skills with particularly strong experience in communicating and influencing throughout all levels of a business
• Proven commercial acumen
• Stakeholder management
• Keen ability to multi task with strong organizational skills
• Knowledge of IT packages including Excel, Word, Power Point
• Ability to analyze data and draw conclusions, making and presenting recommendations as appropriate.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication.
• Time management, prioritization and organization.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Must be self-motivated, organized and possess strong problem-solving skills.
• A curious self-starter, able to work independently without excessive oversight
• An effective multi-tasker that can set priorities and schedule work activities
• Ability to effectively present information to management.
• Interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to present, converse and report professionally to Lactalis Leadership.
• Teamwork, good communication skills to work closely across departments.
• Should possess strong communication and organization skills
• Ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-changing environment.
• Highly motivated, dynamic, efficient, and fast learning.
• Positive attitude, flexibility and a strong work ethic are critical to thriving in this position.
• You have strong communication & interpersonal skills.
• You have strong analytical skills and are comfortable dealing with numerical data.
• You thrive in matrix environments and are adept at influencing and coordinating with different stakeholders.
• Excellent communication, analytical, and creative skills.

Nice To Haves

• Ability to use and familiarity with email, marketing, social media and website content management systems
• Specialist marketing qualification
• Ability to adapt PDF’s
• Good project management skills
• Copywriting

Responsibilities

• A key contact for Digital marketing, working with the senior management to develop trade and digital strategies and releases, ensuring activity is within budgets and deployed appropriately to support key messages / campaigns.
• Responsible for managing the delivery of all B2B Digital marketing communication, including email / social /website, ensuring tone of voice is representative of the Karoun and Portfolio brands whilst being agent appropriate and engaging.
• Develops and executes B2B Digital marketing strategies to boost sales via retailers, distributors and wholesalers.
• Acts as a liaison between Company brand marketing and sales to create persuasive digital marketing technical and strategical materials and deployments to fruition per the strategical plans and forecasts.
• Manage trade promotions with digital technical resources, tools, and measures as an advocate of the goal and mission, the same for in-store presence.
• Analyze performance metrics of digital marketing related deployments and offer strategic roadmaps with actionable planning.
• Consumer-Centric Strategy: Develop and execute digital marketing strategies based on consumer insights and behavior.
• Social Media & Paid Ads: Manage Meta Ads, Google Ads, and other paid campaigns. Implement targeting and retargeting, optimize pixels/tags, and ensure accurate tracking.
• SEO & Keyword Analytics: Conduct keyword research, optimize content for SEO, and manage SEM campaigns to improve visibility and traffic.
• Content Creation & Virality: Produce engaging content (posts, videos, blogs) designed to connect with consumers and encourage sharing. Identify influencers and manage collaborations.
• AI-Driven Optimization: Use AI tools for predictive analytics, automated scheduling, keyword analysis, and campaign performance optimization.
• Analytics & Reporting: Track KPIs such as views, reach, GRPs, CPM, and use tools like Google Analytics and heatmaps to improve user experience and conversions.
• Retail & Marketplace Integration: Manage campaigns for Instacart, Walmart, and Amazon Fresh, including paid ads and performance adjustments.
• Email Marketing & Automation: Build and manage email campaigns, leveraging automation for efficiency.
• Trend Monitoring: Stay ahead of emerging digital marketing and AI trends.
• Accountable for ensuring all support material for use in B2B and B2C trade comms is created and distributed in a timely manner and on budget.
• Work with the senior manager to develop multi-channel trade communication plans, using insightful analytics of performance and aligning with brand activity to deliver tailored comms suitable for the message being delivered.
• Maintain an external perspective and awareness of trade marketing activity other organizations are carrying out within and outside of the industry. Using any insight gained to inform Karoun’s trade and marketing related activities.
• Take the lead on building relationships with Karoun and portfolio brands to share best practice and agent insight.
• Represent as digital marketing lead in key partnership team (sales) events, ensuring the partnership team is aware of upcoming plans, activity and news from digital marketing. Similarly, will then also represent the voice of the marketing/sales team in related meetings.
• Have ownership of ensuring the respective teams have a thorough and good understanding of digital brand activities and information. Regularly meet and work relevant business agents to better plan and deliver such related digital marketing campaigns that are optimized for the desired delivering of commercial, sales and brand objectives.
• Proactively work with internal and external partners and business relation colleagues to create and deliver assets than can be used where possible.
• Share best practice and learnings from and with colleagues and stakeholders.
• Advocates and supports Head of Marketing and Sales Management as and when needed.
• Provide the sales team with support on proofing key digital marketing materials.
• Ensure that the Marketing team and others are kept well informed of current projects and priorities. Strategic awareness and dual consideration to how we are communicating brand messages, commercial priorities and key agents process updates to the team and other dept. partners.

Benefits

• At Lactalis, we offer a comprehensive Total Rewards Program with a variety of affordable benefits and coverage options. We support insurance costs significantly, contribute generously to retirement plans, and offer Paid Time Off from day one. We are committed to your professional growth, providing training and development opportunities, including Education Reimbursement.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level