Job Description

Are you a kid at heart looking to build a career with a leading global children's toy, entertainment and digital gaming company?


At Spin Master, our unwavering commitment to open mindedness, integrity and innovation is a great part of what has made us an industry leader. How do we stay ahead of the pack? By hiring the best and brightest minds--and that's why we want you!

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What will you work

on?

We are looking for Shopper Marketing Manager to fill a 12-18-month contract for the Canadian Sales Marketing organization. This role is responsible for partnering with the Brand Sales team in achieving financial growth profit targets for Canada. The Shopper Marketing Manager leads planning, execution, and analysis of strategic shopper marketing initiatives. In this role, you will be providing innovative and best-in-class in-store shopper Point of Sale (POS) strategies solutions to increase Brand Awareness drive consumption. In this role, you will interact with multiple levels of internal and external stakeholders to develop compelling shopper programs and executional excellence to support business stand out from the competition.

How will you create

impact?

Developing and executing shopper marketing strategies programs:

Developing and implementing shopper marketing programs that align with overall brand and business objectives. Implementing feature display programs, point-of-sale materials, and other in-store or online initiatives to influence purchase decisions. Ability to manage a high-volume number of programs that are on time and on budget.

Operational Support:

Lead key operational vendor relationships with an eye to ensuring continual improvement in execution and process efficiencies; manage annual Shopper budget, prioritizing and optimizing spending across categories, brands, and customers to maximize investment impact; oversee related day-to-day financial administration.

Analyzing sales and shopper data:

The manager analyzes account and area sales performance, shopper insights, and market research data to identify opportunities and optimize campaigns.

Collaborating with internal teams:

The manager works closely with sales, marketing, category management, Asia and other teams to ensure alignment and effective execution of shopper marketing programs. Close collaboration with our Asia team is key for flawless execution on time briefing delivery.

Project management:

The ability to manage all aspects of the in-Store feature programs from brief to instore placement and everything in between - ensuring the process for the shopper programs is followed

Staying up to date on industry trend competitive analysis

The manager needs to be aware of the latest trends and best practices in shopper marketing and provide the team with an overview of what the competition is doing each season.

What are your skills and

experience?

Direct shopper marketing experience in a CPG environment and understanding of Canadian retailers. Strong project management and presentation skills. Experience in working with agency partners Breadth of experience in shopper marketing. Strong analytical skills and resourceful - ability to apply data driven insights to commercial business decisions Previous financial experience including PL understanding and budget management.
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What you can expect from us:

Our mission is to Make Life More Fun with a vision to push the boundaries of innovation, creativity, and fun.

Growth and Career Opportunities Flexible Work Hours Innovation, Collaboration and Fun Comprehensive Benefits Other fun Perks!

What's it like to work here?

Spin Master is a fast-paced, hands-on organization that provides many great opportunities for impactful decision-making; though our challenging start-up atmosphere isn't for everyone, we have a proven record of opportunities for future advancement and internal transfers for our passionate and results driven team.


Everyone is welcome in our sandbox and we are committed to an accessible and inclusive hiring process that provides reasonable accommodation to all applicants.


Spin Master strives to create an accessible and inclusive application and selection process and is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to job applicants who may require provisions to participate in the recruitment, selection and/or assessment processes. Should you require an accommodation, please contact our Talent Acquisition team, by email at TAinquiries@spinmaster.com or by phone at 416 364-6002 and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs.

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We do appreciate all interest; however only those selected for interview will be contacted.