About the role
Division: Client Marketing
Work Status: Full-Time
Location: Toronto, Ontario (Hybrid)
About the Role:
The Talent Account Manager role leads the development and execution of all talent strategy and business development at Corus Entertainment. The role focuses on spearheading multi-platform, talent-driven branded partnerships, delivering new revenue through innovative sales initiatives, talent negotiations, and budget oversight, all while fostering strong relationships with traditional talent and social influencers.
You will contribute by:
- Owning and maintaining strong relationships with Corus network talent across broadcast, social, and digital platforms.
- Acting as the primary point of contact for talent issues, resolutions, and escalations.
- Assist in Analyzing audience and viewership data to identify, recruit, and secure top-performing talent aligned with client needs.
- Lead and mentor a team of Social Strategists who support the Talent Management Group.
- Source new creators outside the Corus ecosystem to expand talent offerings and increase brand partnership opportunities.
- Upsell integrated talent-driven solutions across Corus’s full portfolio, maximizing campaign value.
- Lead the strategic roadmap for monetizing talent relationships, including launching new service offerings and pricing models.
- Partner with Sales and Strategy to align talent with high-growth categories and revenue-driving initiatives.
- Serve as a liaison between talent and internal departments (Client Marketing, so.da, PR, Marketing, Broadcast, Licensing) to ensure alignment and execution.
- Innovate on behalf of talent to deepen engagement and drive long-term value for both talent and Corus.
- Represent Corus externally at industry events, conferences, and social functions to strengthen the company’s presence in the talent ecosystem.
- Build and maintain a visible market presence to support talent acquisition and brand reputation.
- Stay informed on emerging trends, platform updates, and talent business models to keep Corus ahead of the curve.
- Provide insights and recommendations to leadership for evolving the talent strategy based on market dynamics.
Skills and Experience you will bring:
- 3+ years of talent management experience.
- 2+ years of customer focused sales professional experience building.
- Proven experience in the pitch process with business development teams and clients.
- Strong mediation abilities with experience in negotiating, resolving conflicts, and managing expectations.
- Knowledge in managing influencer/talent partnerships and assessing social media metrics and industry KPIs.
- Proven experience is managing and mentoring a team.
- High organizational skills with a proven track record in task management, handling details, meeting multiple deadlines, following processes and multitasking effectively.
- Strong communicator, detail, deadline oriented and team player.
- High comfort level with discussing marketing strategies and analytical social data reports.
- Process driven strategic thinker. Confident decision maker.
- In-depth knowledge of all platforms including linear, social & digital.
- Proven experience producing video content.
- Creative sensibility and storytelling.
Application Deadline: August 22nd, 2025
About Corus Entertainment
Corus is Canada’s leading pure play media and content company, developing and delivering high-quality content and brands across platforms for audiences around the world. Engaging audiences since 1999, the company’s portfolio of multimedia offerings encompass 35 specialty television services, 39 radio stations, 15 conventional television stations, a suite of digital assets, animation software, technology and media services.
Corus’ roster of premium brands includes Global Television, W Network, HGTV Canada, Food Network Canada, HISTORY®, Showcase, Adult Swim, National Geographic, Disney Channel Canada, YTV, Global News, Globalnews.ca, Q107, Country 105, and CFOX.
Corus is an established creator of globally distributed content through Nelvana animation studio, Corus Studios, and children’s book publishing house Kids Can Press.
Nelvana is a world-leading international producer and distributor of children’s animated and live-action content with a stable of globally renowned brands that focus on comedies, preschool and boys action series and ancillary consumer products programs.
Established in 2015, Corus Studios is a premium content studio that develops, produces and distributes a wide array of original lifestyle, unscripted and factual content globally.
Toon Boom Animation’s award-winning software is the global standard for 2D animation and storyboarding providing the artistic freedom to create in any style and efficiently publish anywhere.
Kids Can Press is the largest Canadian-owned children’s publisher with a catalog of over 700 picture books, nonfiction and fiction titles for children and young adults.
Corus also owns innovative full-service social digital agency so.da, and in 2019, extended its reach to millennials through new and ongoing partnerships with Complex and Twitter, expansion into short-form content with so.da originals and the acquisition of Kin.
About the role
Division: Client Marketing
Work Status: Full-Time
Location: Toronto, Ontario (Hybrid)
About the Role:
The Talent Account Manager role leads the development and execution of all talent strategy and business development at Corus Entertainment. The role focuses on spearheading multi-platform, talent-driven branded partnerships, delivering new revenue through innovative sales initiatives, talent negotiations, and budget oversight, all while fostering strong relationships with traditional talent and social influencers.
You will contribute by:
- Owning and maintaining strong relationships with Corus network talent across broadcast, social, and digital platforms.
- Acting as the primary point of contact for talent issues, resolutions, and escalations.
- Assist in Analyzing audience and viewership data to identify, recruit, and secure top-performing talent aligned with client needs.
- Lead and mentor a team of Social Strategists who support the Talent Management Group.
- Source new creators outside the Corus ecosystem to expand talent offerings and increase brand partnership opportunities.
- Upsell integrated talent-driven solutions across Corus’s full portfolio, maximizing campaign value.
- Lead the strategic roadmap for monetizing talent relationships, including launching new service offerings and pricing models.
- Partner with Sales and Strategy to align talent with high-growth categories and revenue-driving initiatives.
- Serve as a liaison between talent and internal departments (Client Marketing, so.da, PR, Marketing, Broadcast, Licensing) to ensure alignment and execution.
- Innovate on behalf of talent to deepen engagement and drive long-term value for both talent and Corus.
- Represent Corus externally at industry events, conferences, and social functions to strengthen the company’s presence in the talent ecosystem.
- Build and maintain a visible market presence to support talent acquisition and brand reputation.
- Stay informed on emerging trends, platform updates, and talent business models to keep Corus ahead of the curve.
- Provide insights and recommendations to leadership for evolving the talent strategy based on market dynamics.
Skills and Experience you will bring:
- 3+ years of talent management experience.
- 2+ years of customer focused sales professional experience building.
- Proven experience in the pitch process with business development teams and clients.
- Strong mediation abilities with experience in negotiating, resolving conflicts, and managing expectations.
- Knowledge in managing influencer/talent partnerships and assessing social media metrics and industry KPIs.
- Proven experience is managing and mentoring a team.
- High organizational skills with a proven track record in task management, handling details, meeting multiple deadlines, following processes and multitasking effectively.
- Strong communicator, detail, deadline oriented and team player.
- High comfort level with discussing marketing strategies and analytical social data reports.
- Process driven strategic thinker. Confident decision maker.
- In-depth knowledge of all platforms including linear, social & digital.
- Proven experience producing video content.
- Creative sensibility and storytelling.
Application Deadline: August 22nd, 2025
About Corus Entertainment
Corus is Canada’s leading pure play media and content company, developing and delivering high-quality content and brands across platforms for audiences around the world. Engaging audiences since 1999, the company’s portfolio of multimedia offerings encompass 35 specialty television services, 39 radio stations, 15 conventional television stations, a suite of digital assets, animation software, technology and media services.
Corus’ roster of premium brands includes Global Television, W Network, HGTV Canada, Food Network Canada, HISTORY®, Showcase, Adult Swim, National Geographic, Disney Channel Canada, YTV, Global News, Globalnews.ca, Q107, Country 105, and CFOX.
Corus is an established creator of globally distributed content through Nelvana animation studio, Corus Studios, and children’s book publishing house Kids Can Press.
Nelvana is a world-leading international producer and distributor of children’s animated and live-action content with a stable of globally renowned brands that focus on comedies, preschool and boys action series and ancillary consumer products programs.
Established in 2015, Corus Studios is a premium content studio that develops, produces and distributes a wide array of original lifestyle, unscripted and factual content globally.
Toon Boom Animation’s award-winning software is the global standard for 2D animation and storyboarding providing the artistic freedom to create in any style and efficiently publish anywhere.
Kids Can Press is the largest Canadian-owned children’s publisher with a catalog of over 700 picture books, nonfiction and fiction titles for children and young adults.
Corus also owns innovative full-service social digital agency so.da, and in 2019, extended its reach to millennials through new and ongoing partnerships with Complex and Twitter, expansion into short-form content with so.da originals and the acquisition of Kin.