SPINS, a Chicago-based SaaS company, is seeking to add a Social Media & Marketing Operations Associate to join its growing Marketing team.

For 20 years, SPINS’ mission has been to increase the presence and accessibility of natural products and thereby help consumers live their healthiest and best lives. We believe that as natural and better for you brands and retailers grow, they are changing the landscape of food agriculture in North America. We partner with hundreds of Natural and Specialty retailer partners who trust us exclusively with their data, giving us purview into the innovation that is driving growth for our industry. We also receive data on conventional retail, which gives us the ability to observe trends as they launch in the Natural and Specialty Channels and scale into the mainstream.

On top of this data, we have applied health and wellness coding that allow us to identify the consumer needs, marketing positioning statements, certifications, and nutrition facts driving the change. Lighting up trends that are otherwise unseen. 

WHO ARE WE?

• We eat collaboration and curiosity for breakfast
• We communicate quickly and succinctly
• We believe in roles instead of jobs
• We take initiative independently and hurdle challenges together
• We discuss, debate, decide and do with the same rapidity as we iterate our platform
• We are a talent ecosystem whose health is predicated on each individual’s ability to support every other individual’s success.

WHO ARE YOU?

• Someone energetic, empathic and earnest
• Someone who wakes each morning thinking of which opportunity they will grab today
• Someone that refuses to give up when the path isn’t paved
• Someone that consistently delivers quality work on schedule
• Someone who would rather build the right tool to do the job than wait until they’re handed one
• A creative thinker as adept at looking at the Big Picture as they are at the details
• An obsessive perfectionist that knows when to put down the paintbrush and ship
• The kind of person that can expertly use an Onion headline as an analogy in a serious strategy meeting.

WHAT DO WE NEED?

In the last few years, the Marketing team has set up a web presence, started producing public and gated content on trends and insights, and set up social media pages, but there is more work to do to build our equity in the market place. With our proprietary data in the Natural and Specialty industry, we believe there is significant headroom to establish SPINS as a thought leader in our industry and put us on the map alongside the big data analytic firms, and the big voices in Natural today.

Situated within the Marketing Production vertical, the Social Media & Marketing Operations Associate will work directly with the Natural Insights vertical and designers to help them bring SPINS’ voice, thought leadership and insights to life across LinkedIn, Twitter (and other social platforms where relevant). In addition to managing the execution of our social media, this individual will also gain exposure to all facets of corporate marketing, including but not limited to CRM and lead generation, competitive assessment, knowledge management, and trade show coordination.

YOU PROBABLY HAVE...

• BA in Marketing or relevant field preferred, but not essential
• A basic understanding of web design and WordPress preferred - but the right candidate can expect to gain applied skills on the job by learning the basics of tag & SEO management, as well as WordPress
• You're a quick learner, digitally savvy, highly organized and a self-starter