[Hiring] PR & Marketing Communications Manager @The Descartes

Role Description

We’re looking for a passionate, driven individual to join our team as a Public Relations & Marketing Communications Manager. This is a replacement opportunity, ideal for someone ready to step in and make an immediate impact. If you love working in a collaborative environment, appreciate flexible hours, and want to make a real difference, this is the opportunity for you.

Descartes powers more responsive, efficient, secure and sustainable international and domestic supply chains. You will develop and execute strategies that drive brand awareness and strengthen Descartes’ position as a thought leader.

• Create Compelling Content: Develop engaging PR and marcom messaging and collateral—think customer success stories, bylined articles, press releases, social posts and internal newsletters.
• Lead Strategic Programs: Build and execute key programs, including industry research initiatives, editorial calendars with key industry analysts and media, and corporate communications initiatives.
• Collaborate for Success: Work with marketing, sales, professional services, product management and customers to produce high quality customer success messaging and content.
• Analyze and Optimize: Dive into data to report on PR performance and fine-tune approaches for even greater success.
• Make a Splash: Help manage relationships with external PR agency and other vendors and contribute to the success of our annual user conference.

Qualifications

• A PR and marketing communications innovator with a bachelor’s or master’s degree in marketing, business, communications or equivalent experience.
• Creativity meets strategy: You excel at creating messaging that resonates and drives brand awareness and thought leadership.
• Proven success in managing PR and marketing programs in technology or B2B environment for at least three years.
• A collaborative spirit: Comfortable in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment, and thrive in teamwork setting.
• Industry knowledge: Understanding of logistics and supply chain industry (e.g., routing, transportation management, freight forwarding, customs and regulatory compliance, ecommerce, global trade intelligence) is a big plus.
• Tech-savvy skills: Ability to build proficiency quickly with marketing tools such as Monday.com and Meltwater.

Benefits

• Collaborative culture: Join a supportive team that values your ideas and contributions.
• Impactful work: Your efforts will directly support our mission of transforming the logistics and supply chain industry.
• Growth opportunities: We’re not just growing our business—we’re growing careers.

Location

This is a remote role with 10% travel across North America. We are a global organization using English as a primary language, job descriptions and communication available in the local languages where required. #LI-Remote.

Salary Range

$80,000 - $90,000 CAD annually. Compensation information provided is a good faith estimate for this position only. Factors that may be used to determine your actual salary may include your specific skills as well as the years of experience you have. Similar positions located in different geographic regions will not necessarily receive the same compensation.

Join Us

As we scale, we’re looking for new doers, collaborators and innovators to join Descartes in uniting the people and technology that move the world as the Global Leader in Logistics and Supply Chain Technology. We’re entrepreneurial, hardworking, geeky-in-a-good way problem solvers. Guided by our values, we nurture a TEAM focused culture that invests in people and creates opportunities for advancement across a broad spectrum of career paths.

We prioritize work-life balance and foster an environment with the space to take ownership, to be heard, and to carve a path for your individual accomplishments to help drive our success. At Descartes, everyone has a voice and the best idea wins, regardless of who makes it. We offer competitive compensation, great benefits, remote and flexible work hours, and the opportunity to join a company on an awesome mission with a great existing team and trajectory.

Descartes also has a deep sense of environmental responsibility. Learn more about how we helped our customers save over 552,000 metric tons of CO2 in 2020 by reducing fuel and paper consumption.

If you feel you have 70% of the qualifications we are looking for, and Descartes sounds like the team and the mission you want to be part of, apply now. We can't promise it will be a fit, but we do promise to consider your experience.

We conduct a mix of in-person and virtual interviews. Virtual interviews are held via Microsoft Teams and are recorded and transcribed. We may utilize AI tools to support our hiring team in notetaking, summarization, and internal training. AI tools are not used in our recruitment process for decision-making purposes.

We are an Equal Employment employer. We do not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, provincial, or local law.