About the Role
Maximize the effectiveness of Diabetes Canada’s digital marketing and engagement efforts by applying data-driven insights to improve performance, user experience, and outcomes across owned and paid channels. This role acts as a strategic translator, advisor, and advocate for data-informed marketing, helping teams use insights to improve decision-making and optimize performance.
Responsibilities
- Lead performance analysis across digital campaigns, web journeys, email, and social channels using enterprise dashboards and KPIs.
- Interpret trends and insights to optimize campaigns, content, journeys, and experiences in partnership with channel owners.
- Identify opportunities to improve collection, engagement, retention, and conversion outcomes.
- Apply audience, journey, and behavioural insights to optimize end-to-end user journeys across acquisition, engagement, and conversion spanning web, email, and paid channels.
- Contribute performance insights to annual planning, quarterly reviews, and campaign prioritization discussions.
- Partner with channel leads to assess performance relative to forecasts and budget assumptions.
- Identify emerging data, tracking, and reporting needs, and work closely with IT & Data teams to help prioritize and facilitate measurement enhancement requests.
- Lead structured A/B and multivariate testing across digital campaigns and experiences.
- Develop and maintain an experimentation roadmap aligned with marketing priorities and capacity.
- Ensure tests are well-designed, with clear hypotheses, success metrics, and actionable outcomes.
- Partner with IT & Data and agencies to ensure experiments are methodologically sound.
- Document learnings and embed insights into marketing playbooks and best practices.
- Promote a culture of experimentation by encouraging teams to validate assumptions, learn from outcomes, and apply insights to future decision-making.
- Translate performance data into clear, audience-appropriate insights and recommendations.
- Present actionable findings to marketing leadership, peers, and agency partners.
- Synthesize insights across channels to identify broader patterns and systemic opportunities.
- Support campaign retrospectives and planning cycles using agreed marketing KPIs.
- Provide inputs to executive- and board-level marketing performance summaries.
- Help stakeholders interpret performance changes, trends, and anomalies by providing context, identifying contributing factors, and clarifying measurement considerations or limitations.
- Identify cross-channel patterns and systemic performance issues beyond individual campaign analysis.
- Act as a strategic advisor and recommender for campaign execution, creative, and platform changes.
- Manage performance, optimization, and experimentation initiatives as defined workstreams.
- Plan and prioritize work using Agile and iterative approaches.
- Track progress against milestones, manage dependencies, and ensure timely delivery of outcomes.
- Evaluate and prioritize initiatives based on business impact, data availability, organizational readiness, and resource capacity.
- Balance competing priorities while maintaining focus on highest-impact opportunities.
- Maintain strong working knowledge of digital analytics and MarTech tools (e.g., GA4, GTM, Looker, Power BI, CRM, email marketing automation platforms).
- Partner with IT & Data to identify tracking needs, flag data gaps, and validate usability of dashboards.
- Manage agency relationships from a performance and optimization perspective.
- Ensure insights inform campaign optimization, creative briefs, and media recommendations.
- Maintain documentation related to performance frameworks and learning agendas.
- Identify and communicate data quality issues, tracking inconsistencies, and measurement limitations.
- Regularly produce reports (e.g., campaign retrospectives) independently and/or with the IT&D data team.
- Build analytics confidence within Diabetes Canada by helping teams understand results and how to act on them.
- Encourage consistent and correct use of data in planning, optimization, and retrospectives.
- Capture and share key learnings from major initiatives and campaigns to strengthen Diabetes Canada’s data maturity and institutional knowledge.
- Actively promote a culture of evidence-based decision-making and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- 10+ years in digital marketing performance, analytics, or optimization roles.
- Post-secondary education in marketing, analytics, or related field, or equivalent experience.
- Experience in nonprofit or mission-driven environments is an asset.
- Experience translating complex data into clear, actionable recommendations, connecting performance insights to broader marketing and organizational priorities to inform decision-making.
- Demonstrates expertise in analytics and marketing platforms (e.g., GA4, Meta, Hootsuite, YouTube Studio, Looker Studio, Power BI, email automation).
- Well understanding and knowledge of data tools (e.g., Databricks, SQL) and AI technologies.
- Communicates insights effectively and influences cross-functional stakeholders while promoting data literacy, consistent measurement practices, and a culture of evidence-based decision-making.
- Understands acquisition, engagement, retention, ROI, and attribution concepts.
- Must be legally eligible to work in Canada.
- Must hold a valid work permit or study permit that allows you to fulfill the requirements of this role.
Skills
- Digital marketing performance
- Analytics
- Optimization
- Data-driven insights
- Digital marketing
- User experience
- Owned and paid channels
- Dashboards
- Reporting
- Enterprise platforms
- Test-and-learn approach
- A/B testing
- Multivariate testing
- Experimentation roadmap
- Insight storytelling
- Decision support
- Project management
- Agile delivery
- Digital analytics
- MarTech tools
- GA4
- GTM
- Looker
- Power BI
- CRM
- Email marketing automation
- Mailchimp
- Data quality
- Tracking
- Measurement
- Data maturity
- Institutional knowledge
- Evidence-based decision-making
- Continuous improvement
- Meta
- Hootsuite
- YouTube Studio
- Looker Studio
- Databricks
- SQL
- AI technologies
- Acquisition concepts
- Engagement concepts
- Retention concepts
- ROI concepts
- Attribution concepts
Location
- Toronto, Ontario
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Remote
Experience Level
- 10+ years
Education Level
- Post-secondary education in marketing, analytics, or related field, or equivalent experience
Salary/Compensations
- $85,000 – $100,000 annually
Benefits
- Group benefits package
- Health and dental coverage
- Life insurance
- Disability coverage
- Employee and Family Assistance Program (EFAP)
- Company-matched Pension/RRSP
- Mental wellness app
- Additional paid holidays
- End-of-year office closure
- Rewards and recognition platform
About the Company
- Diabetes Canada's vision is a world free from the effects of diabetes.
- They work to improve the lives of those living with diabetes by sharing knowledge and resources, supporting health-care professionals, advocating for change, and funding research.
- They provide tools, resources, and support to make the journey of living with diabetes easier.
- They are a national organization with an entrepreneurial spirit.
- They are committed to building a healthy and engaged workplace culture.
- They celebrate diversity and foster an inclusive workplace.
- Core Values: ACE-IT (Agility, Collaboration, Excellence, Integrity, Taking Initiative).
Equal Opportunity
- Diabetes Canada welcomes applications from all qualified individuals, including people of all genders, Indigenous Peoples, persons with disabilities, and members of visible minorities.
- We value a workforce that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve.
- We are committed to providing accommodations throughout the recruitment process.
