Director, Channel Development [Contract]

Posted 21 Days Ago
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Toronto, ON, CAN
Hybrid
139K-186K Annually
Expert/Leader
Kids + Family • Marketing Tech • Mobile • News + Entertainment • Retail
The Role
Leads global channel and category strategies for Value, Club, Grocery, Drug, Plush, and Kids Puzzles portfolios. Owns revenue, profitability, product positioning, pricing, assortments, and market share growth. Directs multi-location brand management and cross-functional development teams, builds retail channel plans, manages licensing and partner relationships, and identifies category opportunities through consumer, retailer, and competitive insights.
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Please Note: If you are a current Spin Master employee with access to Workday, apply to this job via the Workday application.

Are you a kid at heart looking to build a career with a leading global children's toy, entertainment and digital gaming company?

At Spin Master, our unwavering commitment to open mindedness, integrity and innovation is a great part of what has made us an industry leader. How do we stay ahead of the pack? By hiring the best and brightest minds—and that’s why we want you!

Job Description:

What will you work on?
You will design, establish, and execute our global channel and category business models, taking full ownership of revenue and profit margin goals across your assigned product portfolio. Leading a multi-location team of brand managers, you will manage global product lines, define brand positioning, and build specialized development workflows tailored to the unique financial and competitive requirements of Value, Club, Grocery, and Drug retail channels, alongside our Plush and Kids Puzzles categories.


This is a 18 month fixed term contract position.

How will you create impact?

  • Develop multi-year business, growth, and financial strategies for specialized business lines, including the Value Channel, Grocery/Drug, Plush, and Kids Puzzles
  • Lead, mentor, and align a multi-location team of brand managers and a cross-functional design and development team
  • Synthesize shopper, retailer, and competitive market insights to define what is required to win across diverse, global retail channels
  • Design and execute tailored channel product line plans, optimizing price points and brand assortments to expand market share
  • Direct relationships, licensing agreements, and product line approvals with third-party partners and external brand licensors
  • Collaborate with sales, product development, and operations teams to identify new category opportunities and streamline manufacturing efforts

What are your skills and experience?

  • Undergraduate degree in Marketing, Business Administration, or a related commercial field
  • Progressive leadership experience in brand management, product development, and strategic portfolio planning within the Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) or toy industry
  • Proven track record of managing multi-million dollar portfolios, delivering sales growth, market share gains, and profitability
  • Deep expertise in category management, retail channel strategies, pricing structures, and consumer insight analysis across global markets
  • Experience building, mentoring, and leading high-performing marketing teams across multiple geographic locations
  • Demonstrated capability to lead cross-functional development cycles and manage complex stakeholder relationships, including third-party inventors and licensors

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The anticipated pay range for candidates who will work in Ontario is $139,400 to $185,800 Per Annum. The offered pay to a successful candidate will be dependent on several factors that may include but are not limited to years of experience within the job, years of experience within the required industry, education, etc. Spin Master Inc. is a multi-state employer, and this salary range may not reflect positions that work only in other states.

This job posting is tied to an open vacancy.

What you can expect from us:

Our mission is to Make Life More Fun with a vision to push the boundaries of innovation, creativity, and fun.

  • Growth and Career Opportunities

  • Flexible Work Hours

  • Innovation, Collaboration and Fun

  • Comprehensive Benefits

  • Other fun Perks!

What’s it like to work here?

Spin Master is a fast-paced, hands-on organization that provides many great opportunities for impactful decision-making; though our challenging start-up atmosphere isn’t for everyone, we have a proven record of opportunities for future advancement and internal transfers for our passionate and results driven team.

Everyone is welcome in our sandbox and we are committed to an accessible and inclusive hiring process that provides reasonable accommodation to all applicants.

Spin Master strives to create an accessible and inclusive application and selection process and is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to job applicants who may require provisions to participate in the recruitment, selection and/or assessment processes. Should you require an accommodation, please contact our Talent Acquisition team, by email at [email protected] or by phone at 416 364-6002 and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs.

Follow us on Instagram and Twitter @SpinMaster to stay up to date on Spin Master career opportunities.

We do appreciate all interest; however only those selected for interview will be contacted.

Skills Required

  • Undergraduate degree in Marketing, Business Administration, or a related commercial field
  • Progressive leadership experience in brand management, product development, and strategic portfolio planning within the Consumer Packaged Goods or toy industry
  • Track record managing multi-million-dollar portfolios and delivering sales growth, market share gains, and profitability
  • Expertise in category management, retail channel strategies, pricing structures, and consumer insight analysis across global markets
  • Experience building, mentoring, and leading high-performing marketing teams across multiple geographic locations
  • Capability to lead cross-functional development cycles and manage complex stakeholder relationships, including third-party inventors and licensors
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The Company
HQ: Toronto, Ontario
1,909 Employees
Year Founded: 1994

What We Do

Spin Master Corp. (TSX:TOY) is a leading global children's entertainment company creating exceptional play experiences through a diverse portfolio of innovative toys, entertainment franchises and digital games. Spin Master is best known for award-winning brands PAW Patrol®, Bakugan®, Kinetic Sand®, Air Hogs®, Hatchimals® and GUND®, and is the toy licensee for other popular properties. Spin Master Entertainment creates and produces compelling multiplatform content, stories and endearing characters through its in-house studio and partnerships with outside creators, including the preschool success PAW Patrol and 10 other television series, which are distributed in more than 160 countries. The Company has an established digital presence anchored by the Toca Boca® and Sago Mini® brands, which combined have more than 25 million monthly active users. With over 1,800 employees in 28 offices globally, Spin Master distributes products in more than 100 countries.

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