WHAT IS VI?
The Vi family of companies consists of 10 continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs) across the United States. We have more than 25 years of experience as the owner/operator of residential communities for older adults, and have continued to work toward providing quality environments, services and programs to enrich the lives of those we serve.
Our corporate office, located in downtown Chicago, Illinois, supports Vi's 10 communities. Staff at the corporate office is comprised of professionals in their respective fields, many of whom are experts in senior living. The Vi corporate office supports the efforts of each functional community department. Thecorporate staff engages community employees at all levels including:accounting, food and beverage management, human resources, legal, marketing, resident care, and risk management.
Marketing CRM and Digital Services Manager
A desirable opportunity exists at the corporate office located in downtown Chicago for a marketing professional to optimize Vi’s customer relationship management marketing strategies and programs across 10 local community markets. This role will assist in analyzing, developing and adapting key marketing cross-channel touchpoints in order to positively affect Vi’s ongoing consumer brand experience and resulting engagement metrics. Strong technical acumen and hands-on approach is required as the role will also be supporting digital services as needed.
Responsibilities include:
Strategy optimization through data insights:
- Helps build a Marketing culture of iterative testing, learning and adapting
- Works with internal teams, database agency and proprietary tools to uncover consumer insights and marketing opportunities that address key business issues.
- Develops and manages an evolving framework to allow consumer cross-channels insights (quantitative and qualitative data) to fuel strategies and improved user experiences for all outbound/inbound marketing communications including paid search, social amplification, content marketing, email as well as offline channels (direct mail, print, broadcast), referrals and events.
Optimization of marketing executions:
- Threads insight driven strategies into execution solutions by leading creation and management of automated marketing programs that efficiently close Vi’s consumer journey gaps and improve their brand experience.
- Creates a transparent learning framework to ensure the right processes and partners are in place to consistently drive efficient end-to-end marketing CRM executions.
- Initiates the creative development with vendor partners for automated marketing programs writing or assisting with agency briefs focusing on understanding the consumer lens and engagement insights as well as testing tactics.
Drives ongoing improvements/enhancements to digital properties, web-based sales portal and Marketing CRM tools towards a better user experience and improved measurement tracking capabilities.
- Assists with day-to-day digital property (website, email) enhancements and maintenance, such as updating and maintaining site content, troubleshooting email execution issues etc.
- Interprets high-level business needs to external agencies in order to execute more significant enhancements.
- Partners with sales to roll out communication strategies and create a feedback loop in order to ensure successful adoption of enhancements.