Job Description :
Title: Marketing Operations
Level: L5
Location: Toronto
Function: Marketing Operations
Manager: Category & Brand Director
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ROLE PURPOSE:
Lead Canada marketing operations, building the processes, calendars, budget discipline, performance routines, and cross-functional coordination needed for marketing plans to move efficiently from strategy to execution.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Own marketing operating routines, calendars, governance, approvals, budget tracking, and project-management standards.
- Work with global and regional team to adapt and implement ways of working, tools and capabilities to improve overall effectiveness and efficiency.
- Coordinate cross-brand planning timelines, status reporting, and issue escalation with brand, Sales, Finance, Legal, Supply, and agency partners.
- Improve marketing process discipline, documentation, agency onboarding, PO/invoice flows, asset management, and compliance routines.
- Lead the Marketing Operations Analyst and build team capability in process, tools, data, and execution excellence.
- Identify bottlenecks, risks, and opportunities to simplify work and improve speed-to-market.
- Ensure responsible marketing, procurement, and approval standards are embedded in ways of working.
Key Outputs:
- Marketing calendar, operating cadence, and governance tools.
- Budget, PO, invoice, agency, and project trackers.
- Portfolio status reports, action logs, and leadership materials.
- Process improvements and documented ways of working.
- Marketing compliance and approval tracking outputs.
QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
- 8+ years of marketing operations, project management, business operations, commercial operations, or agency operations experience.
- Strong process, planning, budget, systems, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Experience supporting complex portfolios, agencies, and approval workflows.
- Advanced Excel, PowerPoint, collaboration, and project-tracking capability.
- People leadership or coaching experience preferred.
Working with Us
Compensation Range: $86,250.00 CAD - $136,250.00 CAD
This posting is being published in relation to a currently existing vacancy.
Please note that Diageo uses artificial intelligence in the recruitment process as that term is defined under O. Reg 476/24.
Flexible Working Statement:
Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you’re supported to manage your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one.
Diversity statement:
Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.
We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you’ll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You’ll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.
Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.
Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.
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Worker Type :
RegularPrimary Location:
Downtown TorontoAdditional Locations :
Job Posting Start Date :
2026-07-01Skills Required
- 8+ years of marketing operations, project management, business operations, commercial operations, or agency operations experience
- Strong process, planning, budget, systems, and stakeholder-management skills
- Experience supporting complex portfolios, agencies, and approval workflows
- Advanced Excel capability
- Advanced PowerPoint capability
- Collaboration and project-tracking capability
- People leadership or coaching experience
- 6+ years of category management, customer insights, shopper insights, sales strategy, or retail analytics experience
- Strong data analysis, story-building, planogram/assortment, and customer presentation skills
- Experience with Nielsen and Dunnhumby and working with large data sets
- Experience with chain retail, grocery, convenience, club, or private retail customers
- Understanding of regulated beverage alcohol or CPG categories
Diageo Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Diageo and has not been reviewed or approved by Diageo.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered competitive and often described as top-tier, particularly in manufacturing and salaried roles, with many indicating they feel fairly compensated. Compensation is frequently cited as a strong reason to join and stay despite pressures in some parts of the business.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave is widely recognized as a flagship offering, equalized across parents and inclusive of adoption and surrogacy, with benefits and bonuses maintained during leave. This family-friendly approach is highlighted as industry-leading and a standout element of the package.
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Retirement Support — Pension schemes are described as generous, with notable employer contributions enhancing long‑term financial security. In key markets such as the UK and U.S., offerings like pensions and 401(k) plans are presented as core components of total rewards.
Diageo Insights
What We Do
Diageo's official LinkedIn account. We're a global leader in premium drinks, across spirits and beer, a business built on the principles and foundations laid by the giants of the industry. With over 200 brands sold in 180 countries, our portfolio has remarkable breadth. From centuries-old names to exciting new entrants, and global giants to local legends, we're building the very best brands out there, and with over 30,000 talented people based in over 135 countries, we're a truly global company. With such diversity, we're able to truly represent our broad consumer base and think differently about the future. To maintain our position as leaders in the alcoholic beverage market, we always invest in the future and are mindful of the impact we have. Because just like the legends of our past, we're here to raise the bar – for people as well as the planet
