Manager, Organic Social Media – Community

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About the role

  • Sun Life Canada social media manager leading organic social strategy across 12+ channels. Guiding community, content, analytics, and AI-enabled discoverability to support financial security services.

Responsibilities

  • Own and evolve Sun Life Canada’s organic social media and community strategy across established and emerging platforms
  • Define each channel’s role and roadmap based on audience needs, cultural relevance, brand and business priorities, and discoverability
  • Determine where Sun Life should lead, contribute, listen, or not participate
  • Adapt Sun Life’s brand expression to each platform while maintaining brand coherence
  • Lead audience-first, video-first content strategies
  • Partner with Brand, Creative, Content, SEO & Discoverability teams
  • Apply topical relevance, source credibility, and citation-worthy expertise to content planning
  • Lead proactive community engagement, moderation, and escalation within a regulated environment
  • Translate social listening, audience behaviour, cultural trends, and performance data into actionable insights
  • Lead and develop a team of Social Media Consultants
  • Collaborate across teams and guide external partners on integration, governance, content reuse, and operational effectiveness
  • Measure and communicate organic social’s contribution to brand, community, discoverability, and business outcomes

Requirements

  • 5-7+ years of progressive experience in social media, digital marketing, or content strategy
  • Demonstrated experience developing and executing organic social strategies for a large or complex brand
  • Proven expertise in building authentic influencer and creator partnerships
  • Strong strategic thinking and hands-on execution ability
  • Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
  • Experience influencing across matrixed organizations and presenting to senior leaders
  • Deep understanding of social platforms, algorithms, community management, and evolving audience behaviours
  • Experience with social listening and management platforms such as Sprinklr, including publishing, engagement, listening and analytics
  • Strong understanding of social analytics, measurement, and translating data into business insights
  • Working knowledge of AI, SEO, generative search/LLM discoverability, and emerging digital trends
  • Experience in financial services, insurance, healthcare, or another regulated industry is an asset
  • Bilingualism (French, English, both oral and written) is required for Quebec
  • Bilingualism in English and French is a strong asset for other locations
  • Experience leading and developing people, including coaching, prioritization, and performance support

Benefits

  • An environment of continuous learning, development, and improvement
  • Up to 6 weeks off every five years through the Sabbatical Program
  • Hybrid work with flexibility to work from the office and virtually
  • Employee well-being and mental health support through a positive work culture
  • Participation in various incentive plans, subject to individual and company performance

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

CA$85,000 - CA$128,000 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Location requirements

HybridTorontoCanada

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