Consultant, Marketing

NATIONAL Public Relations; Saint John; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading marketing and communications agency in Canada is seeking a Consultant to enhance integrated marketing initiatives across various sectors. The role involves managing projects, collaborating with teams, and developing communication strategies while ensuring quality standards are met. Ideal candidates will have 4-6 years of marketing experience, strong communication skills, and proficiency in French is a bonus.

Benefits

Career development opportunities

Flexible work arrangements

Competitive salary and compensation package

Qualifications

• Experience with branding, paid media, campaign development.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Proficiency in French is an asset.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day execution across campaigns and content.
• Build strong relationships with colleagues and clients.
• Support strategic planning and recommendations.

Skills

Collaborative teamwork

Project management

Communication

Strategic thinking

Organizational skills

Education

4–6 years in a marketing role

Experience with agency environment

Tools

Marketing technology platforms

Job description

About Us

NATIONAL is a full-service, award-winning marketing and communications agency. With nine offices across Canada and global backing from AVENIR GLOBAL, we combine national reach and global scale with deep local insight. Our work shapes conversations, builds reputations, and drives results for leading organizations across sectors. We pride ourselves on being truly integrated with no silos. Marketing is supported by PR, creative, digital, and research expertise, giving you a full toolbox—from influencers to government relations—to draw on. You’ll collaborate with passionate, curious, nerdy-in-the-best-way teammates to bring ideas to life.

Structured onboarding, regular coaching from senior team members, and clear pathways for progression ensure you’re supported from day one and positioned to own your future. We’re a team of smart, motivated people who do meaningful work—and learn a lot doing it. Clients benefit from our shared curiosity, insight, and results-driven approach. Here, your ideas count. You’ll be encouraged to speak up, take ownership, and build a portfolio of work you’re proud to show off.

The role

We are growing our Atlantic team and seeking a Consultant to support our integrated marketing and communications initiatives.

As a Consultant, you’ll help shape and deliver integrated marketing and communications initiatives for well-known brands across sectors—gaining hands-on experience from strategy through execution and exposure to every phase of the client journey. You will step into client-facing roles, manage projects, and work closely with colleagues within NATIONAL and across AVENIRGLOBAL.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day execution across campaigns, content, events, and activations—ensuring deadlines, budgets, and quality standards are met while coordinating logistics across platforms and touchpoints
• Provide thoughtful, proactive support to account leads and clients by preparing briefing materials, status updates, and presentation decks
• Contribute to the development and execution of multichannel strategies in collaboration with creative, digital, and public affairs teams, bringing a fresh perspective and attention to emerging trends
• Build strong relationships with colleagues, vendors, and partners to ensure efficient collaboration and delivery
• Support strategic planning and recommendations through audience, trend, and market research, and monitor performance for campaign reporting to identify insights and opportunities for optimization
• Participate in client calls and meetings, contributing knowledgeably and confidently on executional details and timelines
• Ensure resource efficiency, time tracking accuracy, and alignment with project scopes and budgets while maintaining organized documentation, calendars, and trackers
• Contribute to internal collaboration, process improvements, and a positive team culture by sharing knowledge, supporting best practices, and helping build internal resources
  
  

Qualifications

• 4–6 years in a marketing role (agency experience is an asset); thrives in collaborative, fast-paced environments with comfort in hybrid agency settings and cross-functional collaboration
• Organized and proactive orchestrator—adept at moving work forward, aligning teams, and applying strong judgment and instincts for quality, tone, and timing
• Experience developing communication plans and marketing programs, with working knowledge of branding, paid media, campaign development, and website strategy in collaboration with UX, design, and development teams
• Hands-on experience with marketing technology platforms (social publishing, analytics, CRM etc.) an asset; curiosity about emerging tools and tech, including AI applications in marketing and communications
• Strategic mindset: asks smart questions, sees the big picture, and enjoys untangling complex problems
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills; confident and engaging in a room
• Proficiency in French is an asset.
• Embodies our values: be smart, be inclusive, be a multiplier, be accountable, be kind, be agents of change
  
  

Abilities

• Compelling writer and persuasive communicator that is able to engage people in-person or through a variety of communications mediums (Word, PowerPoint and other innovative digital platforms)
• Strategic thinker with strong interpersonal skills who wants to work in a client service environment
• True team player who is eager to collaborate and help the practice and Firm achieve its business objectives
• Lifelong learner who pushes themselves to stay ahead of the curve when it comes to communications trends
• Consistently demonstrates attention to detail and strong organizational skills
• Doesn’t take themselves too seriously – but takes their work VERY seriously
  
  

What We Offer

• The opportunity to do challenging, unconventional work, while building a career in corporate communications consulting with a Firm that recognizes performance and rewards achievement
• A vibrant and creative workplace culture that values innovation and collaboration
• A competitive salary and compensation package
• Career development opportunities and ongoing training to help you grow professionally
• Flexible work arrangements to help you maintain work-life balance
  
  

How To Apply

Qualified candidates are invited to apply by sending a resume, and a cover letter expressing their interest in the role.

We thank you for your interest in NATIONAL. Please note only candidates considered for an interview will be contacted. NATIONALis an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are dedicated to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Should you require any accommodations during the selection process, please inform us.

Thank you for considering a career with us.

NATIONAL Public Relations provides creative communications solutions that move people in thought and actions. We bring together a team of 300 seasoned professionals, who are committed to helping organizations of all sizes and in all sectors understand their challenges and opportunities and solve the issues they are facing. For 47 years, NATIONAL has been at the center of issues and industries that matter, leading change for today and tomorrow.

NATIONAL is Canada’s leading public relations firm, with offices in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec City, Saint John, Halifax and St. John’s. Its network includes Time & Space, a leader in media strategy, data analysis, planning and execution.

NATIONAL Public Relations is an AVENIR GLOBAL company, the largest Canadian-owned global communications firm, ranked among the 25 largest in the world with offices in 23 locations across Canada, the U.S., Europe and the Middle East. For more information about NATIONAL, please visit our website or follow us on LinkedIn and X.

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