Manager, Communications and Marketing, Canada

AtkinsRéalis • Montreal, QC

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

AtkinsRéalis is seeking a Manager, Communications and Marketing, Canada. This role is central to orchestrating, prioritizing, and coordinating communications and marketing activities across the region. The Manager will act as a strategic and operational interface between business priorities, the Canada leadership team, and centres of expertise. Key responsibilities include leveraging business acumen and regional understanding to structure, align, and integrate communications and marketing initiatives, ensuring coherence with business objectives and an integrated approach from strategy to execution. The role involves close collaboration with centres of expertise to mobilize capabilities for regional priorities and serving as a key advisor to the Vice-President, Communications and Marketing, Canada. The position requires a cross-functional perspective encompassing business, reputation, client relations, and employee experience. The Manager will also drive the function operationally, ensuring priorities are structured, deliverables progress, and stakeholders have clear visibility. Establishing and maintaining governance tools like dashboards, editorial calendars, and activity trackers is crucial for alignment and quality. As part of the Global Communications and Marketing team, the role also contributes to aligning global priorities with regional needs.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in communications, marketing, business administration, or a related field.
• Minimum of 8 - 10 years of relevant experience in a role combining strategic thinking and execution, ideally in a complex, matrixed environment.
• Proven ability to persuade and influence, clearly articulating recommendations and driving stakeholder alignment.
• Demonstrated ability to contribute to the development, operationalization, and integration of communications and marketing plans, ensuring their consistency and alignment with business objectives.
• Excellent project management, prioritization, and coordination skills, with the ability to manage multiple initiatives in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong business acumen, with the ability to understand organizational priorities and balance business, reputation, client and employee considerations.
• Ability to thrive in a demanding, fast-paced environment with tight timelines while delivering high-quality, value-added outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to influence in a matrix environment, mobilizing multidisciplinary teams without direct authority.
• Entrepreneurial and innovative mindset, with the ability to challenge the status quo and evolve ways of working to maximize impact.
• Strong executive presence, with the ability to engage with senior leaders, exercise sound judgment, and represent the function with credibility.
• Strong strategic thinking skills, with the ability to see the big picture and anticipate needs and challenges.
• Strong interest in automation technologies and ability to leverage AI tools in an enterprise environment.
• High level of rigor, attention to detail, and organizational skills, with strong execution discipline.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build and maintain effective working relationships across various levels and regions.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in both French and English, with the ability to translate complex concepts into clear messaging.
• Proficiency in English in addition to French is required.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in professional services, design, engineering, or construction sectors.

Responsibilities

• Act as a strategic and operational interface between the Vice-President, Communications and Marketing, Canada, business units, market leaders across Canada and communications and marketing centres of expertise.
• Ensure structured follow-up on regional priorities, maintaining a clear, consolidated view of initiatives, timelines, and interdependencies.
• Stay attuned to the evolving business needs across the country, identifying relevant communications and marketing opportunities.
• Contribute to the development, coordination, and evolution of integrated communications and marketing plans, ensuring consistency and alignment with business objectives, and cross-functional integration.
• Establish and maintain governance and performance tools (dashboards, key performance indicators, editorial calendars, project tracking) to ensure visibility and execution discipline.
• Monitor, analyze, and support the evaluation of communications and marketing performance, aligned with defined objectives and metrics.
• Mobilize and coordinate centres of expertise around regional priorities, fostering alignment and seamless execution in a matrix environment.
• Support the Vice-President in the preparation, follow-up, and advancement of strategic initiatives, including contributions to planning exercises and annual regional priorities.
• Build trusted relationships with business units and market leaders to anticipate issues and support the implementation of relevant initiatives.
• Contribute, as needed, to the development or coordination of high-value strategic content and tools.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Employee recognition
• Brilliant range of flexible benefits tailored to health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle needs
• Diverse opportunities for training and professional development
• Hybrid working culture
• Generous time-off policies

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager