Marketing Consultant

City of Mississauga; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A major city government is seeking a Marketing Consultant to enhance civic participation and promote public services through integrated marketing strategies. This role requires a professional with experience in digital and traditional marketing, capable of managing multiple projects in a fast-paced environment. The position offers a salary range of $43.19 - $57.59 and operates under a hybrid work model.

Qualifications

• Minimum 4-6 years of experience in marketing and communications.
• Experience developing complex, multi-channel campaigns.
• Strong understanding of metrics tracking and optimization.

Responsibilities

• Provide marketing expertise to achieve City business goals.
• Participate in planning and executing marketing projects.
• Build excellent relationships with stakeholders.

Skills

Marketing expertise

Strategic communication

Digital marketing

Project management

Analytical skills

Education

Post-secondary degree in marketing or communications

Tools

Social Media Management tools

Web analytics

Job description

Req ID: 27260

Vacancy Type: Temporary

Contract Duration: Up to 20 Months

Number of Positions: 1

Closing Date: 11/21/2025

Job Summary

The City of Mississauga is seeking a Marketing Consultant to join the City Events & Experiences marketing team. As part of the Strategic Communications and Initiatives division, you will collaborate to plan, develop, and deliver marketing and communications initiatives that enhance civic participation, promote public services, and foster community connection throughout Mississauga. This position reports to the Supervisor, Marketing City Events & Experiences.

About You

You are a marketing professional who is passionate about creating integrated, evidence-based strategies that elevate municipal services, programs, and community-building initiatives. You understand how to translate public-sector priorities into compelling marketing campaigns that engage residents, build awareness, and support City-wide goals.

You thrive in a fast-paced, high-performance environment and bring creativity, composure, and strong communication skills to every project. You are comfortable interpreting evolving priorities, managing multiple stakeholders, and providing strategic recommendations that reflect community needs and municipal values.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide fulsome marketing expertise (Brand, Traditional, Digital, Social) to internal City stakeholders to achieve City business goals and objectives, including but not limited to building audience trust, generating awareness, fostering education, and driving engagement and or conversions.
• Participate in cross-departmental, multi-disciplinary work teams to plan, execute, track, optimize, report-out, and determine insights on public facing and internal marketing projects, programs, and campaigns to ensure identified goals, objectives, and KPIs are achieved.
• Establish and maintain excellent relationships with assigned portfolio(s) stakeholders.
• Be accountable for all marketing aspects of assigned portfolio(s) including development, execution, monitoring, reporting and success of annual marketing workplans.
• Use primary and secondary research, historical data, current trends and practices to gather insights and inform campaign recommendations.
• Work with an in-house creative team to help conceptualize, write and produce marketing content. Plan, deploy, monitor, optimize and report on advertising campaigns across multiple media channels and platforms to achieve targeted campaign KPIs.
• When assigned, participate in cross-departmental working teams for organization wide projects and initiatives outside of your assigned portfolio(s).

Skills And Qualifications

• Post-secondary degree in marketing, communications, and or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 4-6 years of experience in marketing and communications. Government experience and a Chartered Marketer certification is considered an asset.
• Experience developing and executing complex, multi-phased and multi-channel campaigns with proven success meeting campaign KPIs, goals and objectives.
• Strong understanding of all aspects of marketing and communications including but not limited to: traditional, digital and social marketing, metrics tracking, optimization, reporting and analytics. Familiarity with programmatic ad buying platforms, broadcast, print, SEM, Social Media Management tools, social engagement and web analytics.
• Proven critical thinking, analytical skills and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent client management and relationship building skills, strong written and verbal communications, and persuasive presentation skills.
• Strong project management, prioritization, and organizational skills.
• Ability to adapt to change and embrace new techniques and technology.
• Fluent with current trends in marketing and communications.

Hourly Rate/Salary: $ 43.19 - $ 57.59

Hours of Work: 35

Work Location: Civic Centre - Hybrid

Department/Division/Section: CMO/City Manager's Office , CMO/Strategic Communications&Initiatives , Business & Marketing Solutions

Non-Union/Union: Non Union

We thank all who apply, however, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted. You can also check your application status in your candidate profile online.

All personal information is collected under the authority of the Municipal Act.

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

The City of Mississauga is committed to creating a respectful and supportive workplace that fosters a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion which broadly reflects the communities and residents we serve. Throughout the employee life cycle, the City is working to include an EDI lens to attract, retain and support the growth of diverse talent.

Learn more about the City’s commitment to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion .

Accommodations

The City of Mississauga is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to removing barriers in our selection process for people with visible and invisible disabilities. In accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005 and the Ontario Human Rights Code, the City of Mississauga will provide accommodations throughout the recruitment, selection and/or assessment process to applicants with disabilities.

If selected to participate in the recruitment, selection and/or assessment process, please complete the following Accommodation Request Form and have it emailed to [e-mail] citing the Job ID and Job Title. This will inform Human Resources of the nature of any accommodation(s) that you may require in respect of any materials or processes used to ensure your equal participation.