Manager - Growth Marketing, Retail Channels

Select how often (in days) to receive an alert: Location: Toronto, ON, CA, M5J 2V5 Vancouver, BC, CA Calgary, AB, CA Montréal, QC, CA West Vancouver, BC, CA Jobs by Category: Retail Job Function: Retail Status: Full Time Schedule: Regular Description Here’s the impact you’ll make and what we’ll accomplish together We are seeking a "retail-first" marketing leader to spearhead our channel growth strategy for TELUS, Koodo, and Mobile Klinik. You will lead a high-performing, specialized team of 4-5, acting as the central engine for driving performance across our entire retail footprint. This is a critical role that bridges our digital marketing efforts with our physical store success. We need a digitally savvy people manager who can build a cohesive strategy, develop their team, and drive measurable growth in store traffic, online leads, and website visits. You will be the key integrator, building powerful connections with internal partners (like Base Comms, Web/Digital, MarComm and Partnerships) to ensure our retail channels thrive. Here’s how Lead, Mentor & Empower: You will manage and develop a diverse team of experts across paid Performance Marketing, SEO, Retail Merchandising, and MarComm. Your top priority is to foster a collaborative, high-performance culture. Develop the Retail Growth Strategy: You'll build and execute a comprehensive marketing strategy focused on driving full-funnel growth, setting clear KPIs for store traffic, online lead generation, and website visits for all three brands. Drive Full-Funnel Performance: You'll guide the Sr. Performance Manager in optimizing all paid and organic channels, ensuring we are efficiently acquiring online leads and driving customers to our stores. Champion our Digital & Local Presence: You'll oversee our Sr. SEO Manager to build our digital architecture and win in local search, mastering Google Business Profile processes (with tools like Uberall) to drive organic traffic. Own In-Store & GTM Execution: You'll lead your team's MarComm and Merchandising primes to deliver best-in-class GTM planning, creative, in-store digital messaging, and "scrappy" merchandising that makes an impact. Deliver Actionable Insights: You'll be responsible for the weekly performance review process, guiding your team to distill complex data into clear, compelling stories and actionable insights for leadership. Build Powerful Connections: You will be the primary liaison, building strong, collaborative relationships with internal teams (Web/Digital, Partnerships, TELUS MarComm) to ensure your retail growth strategy is aligned and amplified. Manage Local Social Engagement: You will guide your team's management of our organic social media channels, focusing on comment management and community engagement to build a positive local presence. Conduct data analysis to develop optimization recommendations & to inform future campaign development. Qualifications You're the missing piece of the puzzle if… You're an Experienced People Leader: You have proven experience (3-5+ years) in building, mentoring, and growing high-performing, engaged marketing teams. This isn't your first management role. You're a Digital Marketing Expert: You have a deep, hands‑on understanding of the full‑funnel digital ecosystem, including paid media (Social, SEM), SEO/SEM, local (GBP), and social media. You're a Natural Collaborator & Communicator: You’re known for your ability to build strong relationships, navigate a large organization, and influence stakeholders. You can present complex data and strategies clearly to an executive audience. You're Highly Data‑Driven: You are deeply analytical and comfortable guiding a team to dig into performance data (leads, traffic, appointments, web visits) to find insights, measure ROI, and pivot strategies effectively. You're a Proactive Driver: You have a strong sense of ownership and thrive in a target‑driven environment, proactively pushing forward complex projects and finding solutions. Strong understanding of business, ecommerce & UX/UI fundamentals. You thrive in a target‑driven environment through your proactivity, organization, innovation and enthusiasm. Great‑to‑haves Experience in telecommunications or a multi‑location retail business. Direct experience with local SEO/Google Business Profile management and tools (e.g., Uberall). Agency or multi‑brand management experience. Lead generation/prospecting strategy. CRM & SaaS marketing experience. You will be successful if you are... Job Type: This is for a current vacancy A bit about us We’re a people‑focused, customer‑first, purpose‑driven team who works together every day to innovate and do good. We improve lives through our technology solutions and foster a culture of innovation that empowers team members to solve complex problems and create remarkable human outcomes in a digital world. You’ll find our engaging, high‑performance culture personally fulfilling, professionally challenging, and financially rewarding. We’re committed to diversity and equitable access to employment opportunities based on ability. Your unique contributions and talents will be valued and respected here. When you join our team, you’re helping us make the future friendly. Note for Quebec candidates: if knowledge of English is required for this position, it is because the team member will be asked, on a regular basis, to interact in English with external or internal parties or to use English applications or software as part of their tasks. Retail We want to be THE place to help Canadians to connect their lives with technology. We have the latest gadgets and digital services. Our stores are designed to be interactive. So now we are looking for enthusiastic, tech‑savvy, interesting, and interested team members to join our retail team. You're looking. We're hiring. Join the team. We are honoured to be recognized Accessibility TELUS is proud to foster an inclusive culture that embraces diversity. We are committed to fair employment practices and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment. We offer accommodation for applicants with disabilities, as required, during the recruitment process. #J-18808-Ljbffr