Regional Marketing Director North Canada

FirstService Residential Canada; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 154,000 - 174,000; Full time

Job summary

FirstService Residential Canada seeks a Director of Marketing for the North Region to drive local market strategies across Ontario, Alberta, and British Columbia. You’ll partner with the lead generation and content teams to execute campaigns and manage two marketing managers, ensuring alignment with regional sales and corporate goals.

The role requires strong leadership, strategic planning, and exceptional communication.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, communications, or related areas.
• Ability to develop and articulate strategy and translate into actionable steps.
• Outstanding written, verbal, presentation and editing skills.
• Ability to establish an effective working relationship with key stakeholders across the business.
• Experience with project management concepts and software.
• Experience utilizing technology tools such as HubSpot, Canva, Co-Pilot, and others.
• Ability to work with sensitive or confidential information.
• Collaborative attitude and team player.
• Exceptional interpersonal and organizational skills.
• Flexible and adaptable approach toward change.

Responsibilities

• Lead local marketing efforts for the North Region in Canada, establishing relationships with stakeholders across the region to support and balance global marketing plans and local marketing execution.
• Collaborate with the VP of Marketing South, East, North to develop and execute the marketing plans that are designed to achieve growth across the region in partnership with the lead generation, content and creative and strategic communications leaders.
• Collaborate with and brief the lead generation team – campaigns and website content - to drive growth campaigns across their region, including business unit campaigns, local campaigns and geo-targeting leveraging regional and market level insights.
• Develop local advertising plans and work with their team and regional creative team for execution (print ads, OOH, industry opportunities, etc.).
• Identify PR opportunities for the North Region in Canada and collaborate with the Vice President, Strategic Communications on PR strategy and execution; draft local press releases to support initiatives across the country and within each province.
• Partner with Regional Vice President of Sales to drive marketing efforts and alignment between sales and marketing through monthly meetings, pursuit plans and execution and act as a liaison between regional sales and the lead generation team.
• Lead all regional and market event and sponsorship activity (external facing) including both the event plan and the promotional plans, briefing creative and content with the local team, briefing the lead generation team for registration and invitation execution, lead webinars and provide stakeholders with all needed materials and collateral for in-person.
• Develop and lead execution on internal associate referral programs and online reputation programs across their region and in collaboration with the other directors to leverage proven tactics.
• Analyze marketing tactics’ performance and present insights to stakeholders in partnership with the VP Marketing and the support of the marketing data and analytics specialist.
• Manage the North Region Canada marketing budget in partnership with the VP Marketing including reporting and invoice management.
• Coach and develop their team to become best-in-class marketers and supervise marketing execution at the market level.

Skills

Strategic marketing

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Campaign planning

Content marketing

Analytics

Project management

HubSpot

Canva

Co-Pilot (AI tools)

Communication

Editing

Presentation skills

Confidential information handling

Team development

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business/marketing/communications

Tools

HubSpot

Canva

Co-Pilot

Job description

FirstService Residential Canada seeks a Director of Marketing for the North Region to drive local market strategies across Ontario, Alberta, and British Columbia. You’ll partner with the lead generation and content teams to execute campaigns and manage two marketing managers, ensuring alignment with regional sales and corporate goals.

The role requires strong leadership, strategic planning, and exceptional communication.