Senior Manager, Partnerships

Sephora•Toronto, ON

22h•CA$118,000 - CA$141,000•Hybrid

About The Position

As Senior Manager, Partnerships, you’ll be a pivotal leader in orchestrating and elevating Sephora Canada’s multi-year, national partnerships. You’ll own the end-to-end management of key partnerships, from strategic development and negotiation to flawless execution, ensuring every initiative aligns with overarching business and marketing objectives. The work you do will bring together partners, agencies, and internal teams to build impactful relationships, drive meaningful results, and reinforce Sephora Canada’s market leadership.

Requirements

7–10 years of progressive marketing experience, with a strong focus on strategic partnerships.
Strategic relationship builder who knows how to identify, negotiate, and nurture high-value partnerships that create meaningful brand and business impact.
Strong 360-degree marketing expertise and understand how to connect partnerships across channels, teams, moments, and audiences.
Confident project leader who can manage complex, multi-partner programs with clear priorities, strong organization, and exceptional attention to detail.
Ability to bring people together, influencing cross-functional teams, agencies, and external partners through clear communication, collaboration, and shared accountability.
Comfortable using data, marketing metrics, and performance insights to measure success, optimize plans, and tell a compelling story to senior stakeholders.
Stays close to culture, consumer behaviour, market trends, and the beauty or retail landscape, bringing fresh thinking and a proactive, solutions-oriented mindset.
Open to travelling up to 20% of the time to support events across Canada, with some U.S. travel potentially required.
Comfort using AI tools and technologies to enhance day-to-day productivity.

Responsibilities

Shape and deliver Sephora Canada’s national partnerships strategy in partnership with the Director, External Communications & Partnerships, ensuring every initiative connects to business and marketing priorities.
Lead end-to-end partnership programs, from strategic planning and partner negotiation to flawless execution, reporting, and post-program learnings.
Build meaningful relationships with partners, agencies, and internal teams, creating strong alignment and unlocking new opportunities that support Sephora’s brand and business goals.
Bring bold ideas to life by leading cross-functional teams through clear briefs, thoughtful planning, key milestones, and seamless stakeholder communication.
Oversee partnership budgets, value banks, contracts, onboarding, and reporting with accuracy, transparency, and strong business judgement.
Use KPIs, brand health insights, and partnership performance data to measure impact, optimize results, and inform future strategies.
Represent Sephora Canada at events and activations as needed, ensuring every experience is delivered with polish, purpose, and attention to detail.
Stay connected to cultural trends, the competitive landscape, and emerging partnership opportunities to keep Sephora Canada at the forefront of best-in-class experiential marketing.