Director, Marketing and Retail Services

Job Content (SDF) Details

Job Content (SDF) Details

Competition Number P17912 Posting Title Director, Marketing and Retail Services Classification Band 9 Location Multiple Locations (Please check posting details) Other Location(s) Building Other Building Date Posted 09/25/2026 Closing Date 10/18/2026 JIQ # Start Date 09/25/2026 End Date Open Until Filled No Ongoing Yes Category of work Full Time Bargaining Unit Management Hours of Work OOS (Typically M–F/core hours) Salary Range Out of Scope Salary Table Temporary Market Stipend Incumbent Total Assigned days (AC) / Total Hours per biweekly pay

Typically Monday to Friday
-75 hours in a bi-weekly period

Posting Status Open Special Instructions to Applicants

Saskatchewan Polytechnic considers the diversity of our workforce to be one our leading strengths and greatest assets. Our employee diversity enhances our ability to meet the needs of an increasingly diverse student population. Currently, approximately 20% of our students are Indigenous. A continued emphasis on the development of a representative workforce is one of Sask Polytech’s strategic priorities and, as an organization, we are making significant efforts to attract and retain Indigenous employees.

The Director, Marketing & Retails Services is accountable to the Associate Vice President, Communications, Marketing and Retail Services for providing direction in implementing policies, guidelines, processes and practices that govern institutional marketing, brand management and retail services. The Director, leads the development, implementation and ongoing renewal of Saskatchewan Polytechnic’s strategic marketing and retail services plans, ensuring both portfolios advance institutional priorities, strengthen the learner and employee experience, protect the brand and support sustainable revenue generation The Director must bring an entrepreneurial spirit, commercial awareness, contributing knowledge and tools to empower the senior management team and institutional leaders to achieve our vision of becoming the first choice polytechnic in Canada.

Specific Accountabilities

• Create enterprise-wide marketing and retail services strategies and initiatives that capture and advance the organization’s strategic vision and goals. Determine how marketing, campus store and print services offerings can best connect with and create value with various audiences in a manner that advances organizational goals and objectives. Audiences may include Saskatchewan Polytechnic students and alumni; national and provincial decision-makers; potential students and people who influence them;
  
  public and private sector employers; donors and potential donors; and training system partners.
• Create organization-wide systems and practices that use market intelligence, retail performance data, customer insights and analytics to guide decisions, measure outcomes and enable strategic change. Demonstrate transparency and effectively articulate research-based marketing strategies and plans that support a vision for change in the department, division and the enterprise as a whole. Develop processes to report results and identify areas for future improvement.
• Provide direction in the creation and implementation of policies, guidelines, processes and practices that govern all aspects of marketing strategies, brand and retail services ensuring alignment to operations or organizational requirements, financial stewardship and the learner experience.
• Accountable to provide strategic stewardship of marketing and retails services operating and capital…