Job Description :
About us
With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you’ll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future!
Join us to create a career worth celebrating!

Role Responsibilities:

• Accountable for achieving the Annual Operating Plan including Volume, Revenue and Gross Profit, as well as managing A&P spend within budget
• Lead annual Guinness marketing plan development and present to senior leadership.
• Responsible for ensuring commercial teams are equipped with the right tools and selling materials to execute sales drivers and local activation
• Assist in development of brand communications
• Develop Brand Media and PR plans
• Responsible for developing through-the-line, consumer centric programs across all retail channels and regions
• Responsible for leading the innovation and renovation agenda including 3 year pipeline development and managing projects through the Gate process working closely with the Innovation team
• Responsible for understanding and evaluating the effectiveness of marketing activity and implementing search and spin of proven tactics from other markets
• Work closely with cross functional teams (Customer Marketing, Finance, Sales and National Chain Account teams) to gain alignment on strategic priorities, ensure plans are actionable, and drive execution
• Responsible for guarding and maintaining consistent brand identity

Experience / skills required:

• 5-7 years marketing experience in Consumer Packaged Goods, Bev Alc/Beer or on a lifestyle brand
• Demonstrated experience of working in a fast paced, dynamic category with a rapid and competitive consumer purchase cycle and has a proven track record of succeeding against market conditions
• Strong leadership, problem solving, stakeholder engagement and decision-making skills and an effective communicator
• Proven track record of excellence in converting consumer insights into effective growth drivers
• Excellent multi-tasker, comfortable working in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial, and matrixed organization who holds themselves to a world class standard of output and demonstrates a relentless desire to deliver the best performing marketing programs
• Commercially minded and able to analyze in market data, pull out actionable insights, and translate them into activation plans that drive growth
• Proficiency in French would be beneficial

Flexible Working Statement:
Flexibility is key to our success. From part-time and compressed hours to different locations, our people work flexibly in ways to suit them. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you’re supported 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 :
Fixed Term Contract (Fixed Term)
Primary Location:
Downtown Toronto
Additional Locations :
Job Posting Start Date :
2025-08-27
Salary Range:
Minimum Salary:
$90750
Maximum Salary:
$151250
At Diageo certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including annual incentive payment and stock awards. US-based employees are eligible for healthcare benefits, retirement benefits , short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, wellness benefits and industry leading parental leave, among others. (Benefits/perks listed may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Diageo and the country where you work.) The salary range displayed is the salary range for the role’s primary location

• Accountable for achieving the Annual Operating Plan including Volume, Revenue and Gross Profit, as well as managing A&P spend within budget
• Lead annual Guinness marketing plan development and present to senior leadership.
• Responsible for ensuring commercial teams are equipped with the right tools and selling materials to execute sales drivers and local activation
• Assist in development of brand communications
• Develop Brand Media and PR plans
• Responsible for developing through-the-line, consumer centric programs across all retail channels and regions
• Responsible for leading the innovation and renovation agenda including 3 year pipeline development and managing projects through the Gate process working closely with the Innovation team
• Responsible for understanding and evaluating the effectiveness of marketing activity and implementing search and spin of proven tactics from other markets
• Work closely with cross functional teams (Customer Marketing, Finance, Sales and National Chain Account teams) to gain alignment on strategic priorities, ensure plans are actionable, and drive execution
• Responsible for guarding and maintaining consistent brand identit