Specialist, Omni Marketing
Coke Canada Bottling is Canada’s Local Bottler. We’re Made Local.
Proudly independent, we are a Canadian, family-owned business. Coke Canada Bottling makes, distributes, merchandises, and sells the most-loved beverages Canadians enjoy. With over 6,000 diverse employees coast-to-coast, we operate in every province through 50+ sales and distribution centres, and five manufacturing facilities.
Coke Canada supplies some of Canada’s favourite beverage brands, and we want to continue to be the leading beverage partner in Canada, creating a better future and delivering optimism by bringing sustainable value to our employees, customers, consumers, and communities.
Advancing a high-performing, collaborative and inclusive culture is at the core of our vision to be the World’s Greatest Bottler, Built by the Best People, and we’re looking for exceptional talent to help get us there.
For more information about Coke Canada Bottling and our products, visit cokecanada.com/our-product.
Role Details
- Work Location – Work From Home, Ontario Based
- The full base salary range for this position is from $82,800.00 - $92,000.00 annually. The starting base salary offered is based on market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, role complexity, skills, experience, and internal equity.
- Initial Posting Close Date – July 24, 2026
About This Opportunity
The Specialist will independently manage, execute shopper marketing programs for assigned national retailer accounts. Includes budget ownership and day-to-day execution delivery for strategic retail partnership with proven ability to deliver measurable impact through execution excellence.
This role will have to manage relationships with the brand team, partners, sales, customer contacts, regional and local assets, and other internal and external constituents to support customer programming throughout the year as well as retail channel and digital execution responsibilities. They will have proven ability to multiply team capabilities through process improvements.
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end delivery for assigned small retail accounts including Costco, Save on Foods and Fed Coop.
- Develop and implement insight driven occasion based strategies and partnership marketing programs that are tailored to meet the needs of both Coca-Cola Bottling and our trade partners
- Coordinate with internal teams, external partners, agencies, vendors and retain contacts to ensure seamless execution.
- Manage marketing spend in accordance with program budgets; ensures productivity strong return on investment of all marketing activities; priority setting and execution.
- Plan, develop and execute channel and customer promotions/programs that leverage brand idea/thinking and consumer insights to drive increased consumer preference and customer activity.
- Provide customer business and value opportunity assessments.
- Serve as marketing generalist, stewarding consumer insights, industry trends, innovation, consumer initiatives and media leadership with defined customer portfolio.
- Execute consumer and customer programs tied to Coca-Cola properties (e.g., Olympics, World Cup, etc.) to fulfill brand and business objectives.
- Prepare reports / presentations of research results by efficiently communicating critical learnings, consumer insights and conclusions to provide actionable recommendations.
- Develop marketing materials (e.g., POS, sell-in materials, implementation manual, digital and social etc.) to communicate promotions effectively.
- Write creative briefs that clearly articulate communication objectives and success criteria to inform and direct agency work and creative development.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or the equivalent combination of education and experience.
- 3+ Years experience in Shopper marketing, preferably in fast-moving consumer packaged goods (FMCPG) industry or agency
Skills
- Ability to independently execute full cycle retail marketing at national accounts.
- Priority setting: Strong organizational and project management skills with proven ability to manage competing priorities.
- Strong attention to detail and ability to manage complex operational tasks including budget tracking, vendor coordination etc.
- Decision making : proactive problem solving mindset with focus on eliminating friction and improving team efficiencies.
- Collaborative: collaborating with brand/category teams and other key internal/external stakeholders; Proven ability to build trusted relationships with internal and external partners
- Strong Communication Skills: effectively communicates and builds relationships at all organizational levels.
- Proven working experience in digital marketing, particularly within industry.
- Experience in POS development an asset (including knowledge of POS production processes, not limited to briefing, creative review, and production management) and digital marketing to integrate programs holistically in to the on and offline ecosystem of our retail partners
- Intermediate to Advanced MS PowerPoint, Word and Excel skills required.
Why work with us?
- Join a local, family-owned business that’s part of a globally recognized brand, where you can develop your capabilities, competencies, and career.
- Coke Canada has a culture of learning, and we offer several channels to support your development, including on-the-job training and a library of free courses for just-in-time learning.
- We are committed to offering a comprehensive benefits package designed to help our employees achieve their best physical, mental, financial, and overall health and well-being. This includes a competitive compensation package, access to retirement and saving programs, family and employee assistance program, paid vacation and floater days.
- We have close, local connections with the communities in which we operate across Canada. We’re determined to make a positive difference in our communities; this includes opportunities for employee volunteerism.
- We’re building our business responsibly and our mission is to work Toward a Better Future Together. We have a plan that outlines how we are reducing, reusing, recycling, decreasing our carbon footprint, and using water responsibly. For more information visit cokecanada.com/sustainability/
Coke Canada has been recognized as one of Canada’s Best Employers for Diversity, and we’re committed to fostering a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace. Together we are creating a workplace culture that values diversity, enables inclusivity and ensures everyone feels like they belong. We are aiming to ensure our diverse workforce is reflective of the communities in which we operate. Research shows that women-identifying and other marginalized individuals often hesitate to apply unless they meet 100% of the listed qualifications. If this role excites you, even if you don’t check every box, we encourage you to apply. Your unique experience and perspective could be what we’re looking for. Unless otherwise specified, this job post is for an existing vacancy.
Our hiring process is human-driven and does not involve AI tools for screening, assessment, or selection. For individuals requiring accommodations or support throughout the recruitment process please call 1-844-383-2653 or email HR@cokecanada.com.
Important – please note
All offers of employment at Coke Canada Bottling are conditional upon a successful background clearance obtained through our contracted third-party vendor. The standard clearance requirements depend on the position and may include some, or all, of the following: criminal clearance, employment verification, education verification and driver's abstract review. Please advise the Talent Acquisition team if you have any questions or concerns once you are contacted for further consideration.