MAV Beauty is a fast-growing, global beauty company with a portfolio of high-performance brands across haircare, personal care, and beauty-led wellness. Headquartered in Vaughan, Ontario, our portfolio — Marc Anthony True Professional, Cake Beauty, Renpure, and Sky Organics — is supported by MAV Beauty's brand-building platform, designed to empower distinct brand strategies while delivering the scale through close partnerships with established retail leaders in the US and Canada as well as Amazon. We are seeking strong leaders who are energized by ownership and motivated to make a meaningful impact.The BrandsMAV Beauty's portfolio spans four distinct brands across haircare, personal care, and beauty-led wellness — each with its own consumer, point of view, and role in the category. From Marc Anthony True Professional, a salon-inspired, high performance haircare brand, to Cake Beauty, a sensorial, sweet, playful brand with a bold personality; from Renpure, an essential clean beauty staple that sits at the intersection of natural, efficacy, and accessibility, to Sky Organics, a trusted leader in certified organic beauty and wellness. The portfolio offers a rare opportunity to shape brands at different life stages and cultural moments, requiring a communications leader who can flex from credibility-building to culture-driving while maintaining clarity and cohesion across the platform.The OpportunityThe Director of Integrated Communications is a senior marketing leader responsible for shaping how MAV Beauty's brands show up in culture, media, and the consumer conversation. This role owns the development and execution of integrated communication strategies across PR, influencer, social, content, and paid amplification, ensuring each brand's story is told with clarity, relevance, and impact with a goal of building sustained consumer engagement driving EMV at scale.This role partners closely with Brand, Creative, E‐commerce and Agency teams to translate brand strategy into breakthrough, creator‐led communication platforms that drive awareness, engagement, EMV and commercial results. Reporting to the CMO, the Director of Integrated Communications ensures priorities, investments, and execution are aligned to business objectives across the portfolio and to a modern "creator flywheel" operating model.This is an ideal role for a strategic, modern communications leader who is equally strong in vision‐setting, talent leadership, and hands‐on optimization — and who thrives in a fast‐paced, performance‐driven, social‐first environment.Who You AreA Strategic Integrator: You dismantle silos across Brand, Comms, Creative, and E-commerce to build one unified marketing plan that drives EMV, engagement, and retail velocity.A Cross-Functional Orchestrator: You lead projects to completion by aligning internal teams and agencies, ensuring everyone is briefed early and working from a shared strategic framework.A Performance-Led Strategist: You take full accountability for results, sharing out data-driven learnings to continuously optimize the "learning loop" and strengthen future efforts.Resilient & Decisive: You thrive in fast-paced environments, possess the leadership presence to engage senior executives,
and use consumer data as your North Star for decisions.A People-First Manager: You build high-trust, high-accountability cultures through clear coaching and feedback, developing tactical executors into strategic leadersKey Responsibilities:Integrated Communications Strategy & Leadership:Own and evolve the integrated communications vision across the MAV Beauty portfolio, ensuring alignment to brand strategies and business priorities, with consumer engagement and EMV as key markers of successDevelop communication frameworks that clarify brand positioning, campaign priorities, and channel roles within a creator‐led, always‐on operating modelLead and develop a high-performing team spanning PR, influencer marketing, social, content, and paid amplificationEstablish clear KPIs and measurement frameworks focused on awareness, engagement, relevance, and ROI across all channels of communicationStay ahead of cultural, media, platform, and creator trends to ensure brands remain modern and competitiveOversee influencer strategy across paid and earned programs, ensuring creator partnerships drive authenticity, reach, and impactBuild and maintain robust relationships with creators, talent agencies, and influencer partners with the goal of driving strong creator retentionLead partner selection and contract negotiations to ensure strong performance and seamless executionDevelop scalable influencer programs that ladder into broader launch and brand strategiesOwn influencer budget management and forecasting across brandsPaid Media & Media IntegrationOwn paid media strategy across the portfolio, ensuring investments are insight-driven, integrated, and aligned to brand and business objectives across the funnelServe as a strategic integrator for retailer media, partnering with Brand, E-commerce, and Sales teams to connect Walmart Connect, Amazon Media, and other retail platforms into broader communicationsLead paid media strategy across key upper-funnel channels such as paid social and streaming/CTV with clear roles, KPIs, and funnel impactAct as a rigorous, strategic counterpart to media agencies, grounding strategies in performance insights and shifting investments based on real-time consumer signalsTranslate media performance into insights, delivering clear learnings and recommendations to inform future strategyEnsure creative and media work in lockstep, amplifying PR, influencer, social, and content through smart paid sequencingPR & Earned MediaPartner with brand teams and agency partners to define PR strategies, calendars, and moments that build credibility and cultural relevanceEstablish a scalable approach to earned influencer relations, driving organic pickup through proactive seeding, real time responsiveness, and cultivation of creators into long term brand advocatesLead an "earned-first" discovery strategy,
ensuring high-frequency, high-authority mentions across the web to win in AI-driven Answer Engine and Generative Engine recommendations.Lead the development of press events, influencer experiences, and brand moments in partnership with external vendorsOversee all brand communications—from talking points to interview briefs—to ensure a consistent, modern voice across the creator and media ecosystemDrive competitive media monitoring and insight-sharing across the organizationContent & SocialDefine and oversee social media strategy across platforms, ensuring content supports brand storytelling and business objectivesGuide the development of compelling, platform-native content across organic and paid channelsEnsure consistent brand voice and visual identity across all owned touchpointsCross-Functional & Agency LeadershipAct as a key partner to Brand teams, translating brand strategy into clear communication prioritiesCollaborate with Sales and E-commerce teams on retailer media and .Com support where appropriateLead agency relationships with clear expectations, performance tracking, and budget oversightEnsure agencies have a deep understanding of brand values, objectives, and standardsKey Qualifications and Experience:8–10+ years of experience in integrated marketing communications, ideally within beauty, personal care, or lifestyle brandsBachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, or a related field; Master's degree preferredProven leadership experience across influencer marketing, PR, social, content, and paid mediaStrong understanding of modern media ecosystems, creator economy, and platform dynamicsDemonstrated ability to lead paid media strategy and challenge media agency thinking across performance and upper funnel channelsExperience managing teams, agencies, and multi-million-dollar budgetsHighly analytical with a track record of using data to inform decisions and optimize performanceExceptional communication, leadership, and cross-functional collaboration skillsAdditional Job Details:Location: 4 days on-site at 100 New Park Place in Vaughan, ON.Compensation: Annual base salary of $140,000 - $182,500In addition, this role is eligible for an annual target bonus of up to 20% based on individual and company performance. Note: actual compensation is determined by factors including skills required and experience.Use of AI: We do not use AI in the recruitment process. The hiring team reviews and screens all resumes and selects candidates directly for interviews and offer.MAV Beauty is committed to providing equal opportunities for all applicants and employees regardless of race, ancestry, place of origin, color, ethnic or national origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, record of offences (for which a pardon has been granted), disability, marital or family status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you require an accommodation to participate in the recruitment process, please contact
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📌 Director, Integrated Marketing Communications (Vaughan)
🏢 MAV Beauty
📍 Vaughan