Manager, Performance 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 sets and leads Stantec’s enterprise-wide performance marketing and investment strategy, shaping how paid media, SEO, organic social and advocacy reach priority audiences, optimise investment and deliver measurable business and marketing outcomes. Leading an integrated team, you’ll translate enterprise and business priorities into evidence-led audience, channel and media strategies. You’ll set investment priorities and provide strategic direction on where, when and how Stantec should reach its priority audiences, while serving as a trusted advisor to senior marketing and business leaders on audience strategy, channel effectiveness, media investment and performance.

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 & Investment

·         Set and lead the enterprise performance marketing and investment strategy across paid media, SEO, organic social and digital campaign performance.

·         Translate enterprise and business priorities into measurable audience, channel and investment strategies, directing investment towards the highest-value opportunities.

·         Provide strategic oversight of significant media investment, establishing governance and performance expectations and redirecting investment based on evidence and expected value.

Channels & Insight

·         Set and lead Stantec’s enterprise SEO and discoverability strategy, using audience search behaviour and intent to inform content, digital experience and performance marketing priorities.

·         Lead the enterprise organic social strategy and set the strategic direction for practitioner and employee advocacy, including governance, adoption and enterprise standards.

·         Own the strategic interpretation of campaign, social, search and media performance, translating insights into recommendations on channel strategy, audience priorities and future investment.

Optimisation & Partnerships

·         Establish a culture of evidence-led experimentation, testing and continuous optimisation across channels and campaigns.

·         Partner with Content Marketing, Digital Operations, Talent Brand and Recruitment Marketing to deliver integrated audience, channel and campaign strategies.

·         Act as a trusted advisor to senior marketing and business leaders on media investment, channel performance and emerging digital opportunities.

Leadership & Change

·         Lead, develop and inspire a high-performing specialist team, building capability through coaching and development.

·         Manage priorities, resources, significant media budgets and external partners, making informed investment and resourcing decisions based on enterprise priorities and performance.

·         Lead change and capability adoption across performance marketing, strengthening enterprise approaches, standards and ways of working.

Your Capabilities and Credentials

·         Deep understanding of performance marketing, paid digital media, organic social, SEO and digital campaign performance.

·         Strong strategic planning, investment prioritisation and commercial decision-making capability.

·         Strong analytical capability, with the ability to translate complex performance data into clear recommendations and action.

·         Strong understanding of SEO and its relationship with content, audience behaviour and website performance.

·         Strong working knowledge of relevant advertising, social and performance marketing platforms, including LinkedIn, Meta, Instagram, YouTube and X.

·         Working knowledge of social management and advocacy platforms, including Hootsuite and Parliament.

·         Strong strategic judgement, with the ability to navigate ambiguity, competing priorities and complex stakeholder needs.

·         Excellent people leadership, stakeholder management and influencing capability.

·         Demonstrated ability to lead enterprise change and build alignment across marketing, content, digital and business stakeholders.

·         Ability to balance innovation and experimentation with commercial discipline, brand standards and responsible investment.

Education and Experience

·         Degree or equivalent experience in marketing, digital marketing, communications, business or a related discipline.

·         10+ years of progressive experience in performance marketing, digital marketing, integrated media or related disciplines, ideally within a complex global organisation or agency environment.

·         Significant experience leading multidisciplinary performance marketing teams and developing specialist capability.

·         Demonstrated success developing and executing enterprise or organisation-wide performance marketing, audience and media strategies.

·         Demonstrated expertise across paid digital media, SEO, organic social and digital campaign measurement.

·         Proven experience managing significant digital media investments and budgets across multiple campaigns, audiences or markets.

·         Demonstrated experience making strategic investment and prioritisation decisions based on audience insight, performance evidence and business objectives.

·         Proven ability to advise, influence and constructively challenge senior marketing and business stakeholders.

·         Experience building, evolving or transforming performance marketing capabilities, operating models and ways of working.

·         Experience in B2B, professional services or complex consideration-led marketing is advantageous.

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.