Manager, Content Marketing

Manager, Content Marketing

Your Opportunity
Are you ready to work alongside talented, creative colleagues, make a meaningful impact in your community, and build your career? Meet Stantec. Ranked among the world’s most sustainable companies, we’re known for delivering some of the most exciting and innovative projects across the globe with the strength of more than 34,000 team members. And we want you on our team.

This role leads Stantec’s enterprise-wide content marketing capability, setting the strategy, operating model and editorial direction for how priority stories, expertise and perspectives are identified, developed and brought to life. Combining strategic content leadership, editorial judgement and commercial thinking, you’ll create audience value, strengthen Stantec’s brand and reputation, and support business growth. Working across a complex global organisation, you’ll partner with senior business and marketing leaders and teams across Brand, PR, Creative, Performance Marketing and Digital Operations to shape high-impact content and build a strong, scalable content capability.

Reporting to the Senior Director of Marketing and Digital, some of the activities you’ll focus your energy on include, but are not limited to:

Strategy & Direction
•    Set and lead the enterprise content marketing strategy, aligning content priorities with brand, reputation, audience and business objectives.
•    Translate enterprise, regional, business line and sector priorities into a clear and prioritised content agenda.
•    Act as a trusted strategic advisor to senior marketing and business leaders, influencing priorities and shaping high-value content programmes.

Storytelling & Editorial
•    Lead an audience-led, story-first approach to identifying, assessing and developing compelling stories across Stantec’s people, projects,               expertise, research and market perspectives.
•    Lead the development of content propositions, narrative frameworks, thought leadership and high-profile editorial programmes.
•    Serve as the senior editorial authority for strategically important content, setting standards for quality, accuracy and brand consistency.

Operating Model & Partnerships
•    Establish the operating model, governance, standards and workflows required to deliver high-quality content efficiently and at scale.
•    Lead prioritisation and resource allocation, applying strong editorial and commercial judgement to focus investment on the highest-value           opportunities.
•    Partner with Performance Marketing, Digital Operations, PR and Creative to strengthen content planning, activation, amplification and                 performance.

Leadership & Change
•    Lead, develop and inspire a high-performing specialist team, building capability through coaching and development.
•    Build strong partnerships with senior stakeholders across the organisation and contribute as a member of the Enterprise Digital Marketing         leadership team.
•    Manage priorities, resources, budgets and external partners, and lead continuous improvement and change in content marketing practices         across a complex global organisation.

Your Capabilities and Credentials
•    Outstanding editorial judgement with exceptional writing, editing, interviewing and storytelling skills.
•    Strong strategic and commercial thinking, with the ability to connect content decisions to audience and business value.
•    Deep understanding of contemporary content marketing, editorial strategy and digital storytelling.
•    Strong people leadership, stakeholder management, prioritisation and influencing skills.
•    Proven ability to advise, influence and constructively challenge senior leaders and build alignment across a matrixed organisation.
•    Ability to navigate ambiguity, competing priorities and complex business needs while maintaining clear strategic direction.
•    Ability to build scalable processes and ways of working while preserving creativity and editorial quality.
•    Working knowledge of SEO, audience insights, content performance and the responsible use of AI in content workflows.
•    Strong change leadership skills with a focus on collaboration, accountability and continuous improvement.

Education and Experience
•    Degree or equivalent experience in marketing, communications, journalism, English, content strategy or a related discipline.
•    10+ years of progressive experience in content marketing, editorial, journalism, communications or a related discipline, ideally within a                 complex B2B, professional services, agency or similarly matrixed environment.
•    Significant experience leading content strategy, editorial or content marketing teams and developing specialist talent.
•    Demonstrated success developing and executing enterprise or organisation-wide content strategies connected to audience, brand,                       reputation and business objectives.
•    Experience building, evolving or transforming content capabilities, operating models and ways of working.
•    Strong track record of translating complex subject matter and expert perspectives into differentiated credible and compelling content.
•    Experience managing resources, external partners and budgets against strategic priorities.

What we offer

We offer many benefits to ensure your professional development & wellbeing are ongoing.

•    Genuine Flexible Working Arrangements - Including work from home opportunities, provision for school term contracts, job sharing and             part-time employment.
•    Option to purchase up to 4 weeks additional leave.
•    Learning and Talent Development Programs - Including Global programmes, online learning and on-the-job learning.
•    Professional Memberships, Salary Continuance Insurance (SCI), Service Recognition Awards.
•    Mental Health, Employee Assistance Program and Wellbeing Programs.

Culture
Stantec is serious about healthy work-life balance, diversity, inclusion & equity, indigenous relations, innovation, community engagement, corporate sustainability, and social wellbeing. We have employee groups for women, LGBTQI+, neurodiversity, and more! Our employees play sport, fundraise, volunteer, learn, and have fun together.

We are committed to reconciliation and to building respectful relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. We’re better together when different perspectives are welcomed and valued, and we’re committed to a workplace where everyone can belong and thrive. If you need any adjustments to participate in our recruitment process, please let us know.

Please apply online. Applications close Tuesday 24 November 2026.

No Agency CVs will be accepted at this time.

Applicants must have the right to work in Australia or New Zealand.