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Export Development Canada | Exportation et développement Canada

Export finance, insurance, and market intelligence

Gestionnaire du programme de marque

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/17/2026Deadline 10/20/26
CA$84.7k - CA$112.9k/yr
Senior
Ottawa, ON, Canada
HybridThree days on-site per week required.
Project & Program ManagementProgram Management

About the job

Requirements
  • A university undergraduate degree or equivalent experience in marketing, communications, business administration, design management, project management, or a related field.
  • At least five years of experience in branding, marketing, communications, creative services, project or program management, or a related field.
  • Demonstrated experience coordinating or managing cross-functional marketing, branding, communications, or creative initiatives from conception through implementation.
  • Experience managing priorities, timelines, risks, dependencies, stakeholder expectations, and competing requests in a dynamic environment.
  • Experience working with creative, design, digital, or communications teams or agencies, and ability to contribute to communication, review, feedback, and quality assurance processes.
  • Demonstrated ability to communicate clearly and professionally with stakeholders at different levels, synthesize information, and facilitate decision-making.
Responsibilities
  • Translate corporate, marketing, and brand priorities into a quarterly roadmap and actionable backlog for the Brand Strategy and Creative Services team, in collaboration with the Director and Senior Brand Manager.
  • Maintain and refine the roadmap as priorities, deadlines, team capacity, and stakeholder expectations evolve.
  • Monitor implementation progress, risks, dependencies, and required resources to support planning, decision-making, and transparency.
  • Own the intake and prioritization process for requests, assessing operational value, urgency, effort, risks, and alignment with team priorities.
  • Triage incoming requests, clarify stakeholder needs, define scope and responsibilities, and establish delivery expectations and next steps.
  • Manage demand and capacity constraints by recommending sequencing and trade-offs and escalating issues when needed.
  • Manage the Brand Manager’s inbox and brand-use requests, ensuring prompt routing, handling, and follow-up.
  • Improve the quality and consistency of incoming requests through effective information-submission requirements, request documentation, and acceptance criteria.
  • Facilitate agile delivery practices, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, retrospectives, and stand-ups.
  • Support workload management and resolve delivery blockers to ensure projects progress efficiently and predictably.
  • Use team feedback, stakeholder input, and delivery data to improve processes, tools, and operating practices.
  • Support quality-assurance controls to ensure compliance with brand standards, project objectives, accessibility requirements, and stakeholder expectations.
  • Maintain and improve governance frameworks, including service standards, intake processes, workflows, and escalation paths.
  • Identify recurring quality or process issues and address them through improved guidance, templates, and tools.
  • Foster a collaborative work environment by encouraging accountability, clarifying roles, and promoting consistent ways of working.
  • Facilitate team-member onboarding to ensure understanding of workflows, tools, expectations, and delivery practices.
  • Build shared understanding of priorities, decisions, and deliverables across brand strategy, brand management, and creative services.
  • Help the Director preserve strategic capacity by enforcing prioritization decisions and balancing delivery requests with long-term brand initiatives.
  • Coordinate key initiatives and team operations that contribute to brand management and adoption objectives.
  • Track and report team performance metrics, including Brand Hub usage, brand ambassador communications, and delivery metrics, to inform planning, prioritization, and continuous improvement.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience in a brand center of excellence, agency, creative services, marketing, or similar environment.
  • Experience developing or improving request-intake processes, governance frameworks, service standards, and ways of working.
  • Experience supporting brand governance, accessibility standards, design systems, digital asset management, or brand-adoption initiatives.
  • Experience applying Agile and Kanban methods, or similar practices and tools, to manage marketing, communications, or creative work.
  • Experience tracking performance metrics and using insights to support planning and continuous improvement.
  • Strong understanding of brand-management principles, including governance, visual identity, messaging consistency, creative quality, and brand adoption.
  • Proficiency in both of Canada’s official languages, English and French.

About the company

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Export Development Canada | Exportation et développement Canada

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Export Development Canada (EDC) is Canada’s export credit agency and a Crown corporation that helps Canadian businesses sell goods and services abroad. It offers financing, insurance, guarantees, market intelligence, and business connections to support companies of different sizes as they enter new markets and participate in international supply chains. EDC works across sectors including agri-food, energy and energy transition, critical minerals, advanced manufacturing, digital industries, and defence and security, and partners with financial institutions, government agencies, and other organizations to provide complementary trade and investment support. Its goal is to help Canadian exporters manage risk, secure the capital and information they need, and build global connections to grow international trade.

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

Debt Financing

Total Funding

$1B

Headquarters

Ottawa, Canada

Founded

1944

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What believers are saying

  • EDC’s September 2026 TCI showed 72% of exporters targeting new markets.
  • EDC supported $8.7 billion in Canada’s critical minerals sector during 2025.
  • EDC’s Europe push aligns with CETA and Canada-EU critical minerals cooperation talks.

What critics are saying

  • EDC net income fell from $915 million in 2024 to $178 million in 2025.
  • U.S. tariffs on Canadian goods in August 2026 intensify financing demand and credit stress.
  • If Canada-U.S. trade shrinks faster than Europe ramps, EDC’s relevance gets squeezed.

What makes Export Development Canada | Exportation et développement Canada unique

  • EDC backed $135 billion trade activity and 24,000 businesses in 2025.
  • EDC opened France and Sweden offices on October 1, 2026, with Poland planned.
  • EDC signed a UKEF MOU on April 29, 2026 for critical minerals cooperation.

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  • Hybrid Work Options
  • Paid Vacation
  • Relocation Assistance
  • Wellness Program
  • Mental Health Support
  • Training Programs
  • Professional Development Budget

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MarketScreener
Oct 10th, 2026
East Side Games secures $2.9M credit from National Bank and $4M loan from Export Development Canada

East Side Games Group has transferred its banking relationship to National Bank of Canada, securing CAD 4 million in credit based on accounts receivable and tax credits. The company also obtained a USD 4 million term loan facility from Export Development Canada's Direct Lending Program for game development. Part of the proceeds will pay off an existing line of credit with Royal Bank of Canada. The EDC funding is designated for developing two unannounced titles planned for release in 2027. The company announced the new banking arrangements as part of its financing strategy for future game development projects.

Corus Entertainment
Oct 1st, 2026
Export Development Canada is opening 3 new offices in Europe.

Export Development Canada is opening 3 new offices in Europe. Posted October 1, 2026 1:05 pm Export Development Canada is set to open two new offices in Europe this year and another in 2027, the Crown corporation said in a statement Thursday. The move comes amid deepening ties between Canada and the European Union, including a proposal by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to make Canada the EU's first "associate member." As part of the next phase of its Europe strategy, EDC is opening new offices in France and Sweden, Canada's federal export credit agency said in a statement. A third new office in Poland is being planned for 2027, the agency added. Along with the offices in the United Kingdom, Germany and Turkey, these offices will help put EDC and Canadian businesses "closer to European buyers, investors, financial institutions and strategic partners," EDC said. The agency is citing growing interest among Canadian exporters to sell to Europe as the driving force behind the move. Almost one-third (31 per cent) of Canadian exporters say they plan to enter the European market in the next two years, according to EDC's 2026 Trade Confidence Index. Get breaking national news. Deepening trade ties with the EU is a key pillar of Prime Minister Mark Carney's strategy to double Canada's non-U.S. exports as U.S. President Donald Trump's trade war continues. Trade talks collapsed between Canada and the United States in August after Ottawa walked away from the negotiating table in response to last-minute terms that Carney says the U.S. demanded, including restrictions on Canada entering into new trade deals with other countries. Since then, Trump has escalated his economic attacks against Canada, imposing multiple rounds of tariffs as well as import restrictions. EDC projects Canada's exports to Europe could exceed US$104 billion in goods and US$41 billion in services by 2035. Canada and the EU have already increased their volume of trade by 75 per cent in less than a decade since the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) was signed, International Trade Minister Maninder Sidhu said in a statement. "EDC's expanded presence will build on that success as we work to double our non-U.S. exports. This means more Canadian businesses building lasting partnerships, reaching new customers and creating good-paying jobs for workers here at home," he said. Story continues below advertisement While CETA has been provisionally implemented, it isn't yet fully ratified as some European Union member states still need to ratify the agreement in their individual legislatures. Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Poland and Slovenia are the states that haven't yet ratified the trade deal. U.S. news outlet Politico reported earlier this week that Ottawa and Brussels are expected to announce a sweeping new partnership pact, which includes jointly stockpiling critical minerals. The stockpile will help "to insulate from market fluctuations and geopolitical impacts," a joint Canada-EU memo obtained by Politico said. The two sides are also expected to step up energy cooperation, break down digital trade barriers, cooperate on defence and jointly purchase water bombers to coordinate the fight against wildfires in both jurisdictions. (C) 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.

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Oct 1st, 2026
EDC strengthens its European presence to unlock growth opportunities for Canadian exporters.

EDC strengthens its European presence to unlock growth opportunities for Canadian exporters. October 01, 2026 Ottawa New European representations will help deepen trade and investment ties. At a time of significant economic transformation in Europe and growing demand for trusted international partners, Export Development Canada (EDC) is expanding its presence across the continent to help Canadian companies diversify their exports, build commercial relationships and pursue new opportunities in some of the world's most dynamic economies. As part of the next phase of its Europe strategy, EDC is opening new representations in France and Sweden, with a representation in Poland planned for 2027. Complementing EDC's established presence in the United Kingdom, Germany and Türkiye, these new representations will put EDC closer to European buyers, investors, financial institutions and strategic partners. This stronger in-market presence will help Canadian companies identify opportunities earlier, navigate local business environments and establish commercial relationships more quickly and effectively. "At a time when trade and investment ties between Canada and Europe are deepening, our expanded presence will help Canadian companies by building pragmatic relationships with like-minded trading partners across Europe," said Alison Nankivell, EDC's President and CEO. "EDC's unique strength lies in pairing financing and risk expertise with international relationships built over decades. Through this, we can help our customers seize this important moment to build their competitiveness and resilience." Europe offers Canadian companies access to more than 700 million consumers, with preferential trade access through Canada's free trade agreements. Since the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) was provisionally applied in 2017, total trade between Canada and the EU has grown by a significant amount, reaching $178.6 billion in 2025. EDC's 2026 Trade Confidence Index found 31% of Canadian exporters plan to enter Europe in the next two years, a region where Canada's export potential could reach more than US$104 billion in goods and US$41 billion in services by 2035, according to projections by EDC Economics. "Europe is one of Canada's most trusted partners, and last year EDC facilitated an estimated $16.2 billion in Canadian exports to the region, supporting more than 1,700 businesses," said The Honourable Maninder Sidhu, Minister of International Trade. "Trade between Canada and the EU has grown by more than 75% since CETA came into force, and EDC's expanded presence will build on that success as we work to double our non-U.S. exports. This means more Canadian businesses building lasting partnerships, reaching new customers and creating good-paying jobs for workers here at home." Working closely with Canada's Trade Commissioner Service and other government partners, as well as industry and financial leaders, EDC's in-market teams combine local relationships and market knowledge with financing and risk expertise to help Canadian exporters identify opportunities, navigate local conditions and advance commercial relationships. Europe's economy is undergoing significant transformation driven by investments in energy security, defence modernization, digital technologies, advanced manufacturing and supply chain resilience. These shifts are creating new opportunities for Canadian companies with the expertise, technologies and products needed by European buyers and investors. Customer success stories. Northland Power is a Toronto-based global energy company with nearly four decades of experience developing and operating large-scale power projects. In June 2026, its 1.1-gigawatt Baltic Power project with ORLEN delivered the first offshore wind-generated electricity to Poland's national grid. Supported by EDC project financing, Northland has expanded into Poland's emerging offshore wind market, advancing the country's clean energy transition and helping deliver a landmark European energy project. Boralex, from Kingsey Falls, Quebec, is a renewable energy company and France's largest independent onshore wind producer. Since 2016, EDC has provided working capital and project financing to support its international expansion. This included financing Limekiln, Boralex's first U.K. wind farm and one of the country's largest onshore wind projects. EDC's support has helped Boralex free up capital, advance clean energy projects and strengthen its presence in key European markets. Activate Games, based in Winnipeg, combines physical activity, immersive technology and interactive challenges in the world's first active gaming experience. EDC worked with RBC to provide direct lending, loan guarantees and trade finance support, helping the company accelerate its U.S. expansion. Europe is now central to Activate's global growth, with locations in the United Kingdom, France and Finland, and further expansion planned across Scandinavia and Germany. Laserax, founded in Québec City, provides industrial laser solutions to automotive, clean energy, battery and manufacturing customers worldwide. In 2026, EDC financed Laserax GmbH's acquisition of a majority stake in German laser specialist SLCR Lasertechnik GmbH. The transaction, the second Laserax acquisition supported by EDC, is expected to accelerate the company's European expansion and advance its strategy to become a global leader in sustainable industrial laser applications. About EDC. Export Development Canada (EDC) is a financial Crown corporation dedicated to helping Canadian businesses make an impact at home and abroad. EDC has the financial products and knowledge Canadian companies need to confidently enter new markets, reduce financial risk and grow their business as they go from local to global. Together, EDC and Canadian companies are building a more prosperous, stronger and sustainable economy for all Canadians. Media contact. Export Development Canada You should also check out. At a time of heightened economic volatility and trade uncertainty, EDC is not only continuing to stand tall for Canada - Export Development Canada is leaning in with renewed purpose. Export Development Canada is sharpening its focus on how Export Development Canada can contribute even more meaningfully to Canada's trade priorities, by exploring new ways to help Canadian exporters and sectors scale their offerings and reach new global markets. Date modified: 2026-10-01

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Sep 28th, 2026
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EMERGE Commerce has refinanced its $5.85 million debt with Desjardins Ontario Credit Union, securing a seven-year term through September 2033 with a 3.70% interest rate reduction. The new facility lowers the interest rate from 11.00% to 7.30%, reducing it from Prime Rate plus 6.55% to Prime Rate plus 2.85%. The Toronto-based e-commerce company expects approximately $400,000 in cash flow savings during the first year from lower interest costs and reduced refinancing expenses. EMERGE plans to use most of these savings to reduce debt whilst maintaining flexibility for growth and acquisitions. The refinancing also includes a $1 million revolving line of credit for working capital, guaranteed by Export Development Canada. The company operates profitable e-commerce brands across direct-to-consumer and business-to-business segments, including truLOCAL meat subscription service and golf-related businesses.