About the role
Division: Revenue Team - Sales
Work Status: Full-Time
Location: Ottawa, Ontario (Hybrid)
About the Role:
The Corus Sales Department in Cornwall/Ottawa is seeking a forward-thinking individual who can represent all Corus Radio, Television and Digital assets in both the Agency and Retail environments. The Account Manager – Sales will have a track record of developing non-traditional revenues by presenting innovative, research supported solutions to maximize revenue and provide a measurable ROI for clients. This role will Report to the Retail Sales Manager.
You will contribute by:
- Deliver best-in-class Marketing solutions to our partners, utilizing the full asset portfolio of Corus, including television, radio, digital, social, and creative.
- Achieve Individual revenue targets tied to Radio, TV, Digital, Social and Production budgets.
- Embrace Salesforce as the CRM solution for our clients.
- Build expertise in all platforms – S4M, Wide Orbit, Salesforce, Airware, CSGO, DFP – to support revenue generation.
- Build effective solutions-based marketing programs that address identified KPIs for our client partners and deliver results.
- Become expert in Corus “Advanced Advertising” platforms to support revenue generation.
- Exemplary, ethical representation of Corus assets to key Agency and direct client partners.
- Positioning the Corus team as the “go to” solutions provider in the eyes of our clients and agency partners.
Skills and experience you will bring:
- Post Secondary education in Marketing / Sales/ Business/ Communications.
- Minimum of two (2) years in the media or agency related experience.
- Ability to integrate Research into the sales narrative to advance the Corus advantage and drive revenue.
- Ability to execute a thoughtful, concise Customer Needs Analysis (CNA) with clients to identify revenue opportunities.
- Collaborative skills to work with key internal team/stakeholders (Tempo, Creative Services, News) to ideate marketing solutions.
- Ability to build best-in-class presentations that incorporate strategy, research, media recommendations and Corus solutions.
- Execute a best-in-class new business revenue generation strategy that delivers new business targets with keen knowledge of the competitive landscape.
- Accurately forecast revenue for your account/agency responsibilities, working in concert with your client and agency partners that identify accurate revenue opportunity and potential risk.
- Leadership skills to support roles – Inside Sales, Representatives, Account Coordinators, Sales Promotions.
- Possess a great sense for opportunity, with a focus on strong negotiation skills and the ability to close business.
- A strong background in Digital and Social selling as well as a solid understanding of Audience measurement and research.
Application Deadline: August 15, 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: Revenue Team - Sales
Work Status: Full-Time
Location: Ottawa, Ontario (Hybrid)
About the Role:
The Corus Sales Department in Cornwall/Ottawa is seeking a forward-thinking individual who can represent all Corus Radio, Television and Digital assets in both the Agency and Retail environments. The Account Manager – Sales will have a track record of developing non-traditional revenues by presenting innovative, research supported solutions to maximize revenue and provide a measurable ROI for clients. This role will Report to the Retail Sales Manager.
You will contribute by:
- Deliver best-in-class Marketing solutions to our partners, utilizing the full asset portfolio of Corus, including television, radio, digital, social, and creative.
- Achieve Individual revenue targets tied to Radio, TV, Digital, Social and Production budgets.
- Embrace Salesforce as the CRM solution for our clients.
- Build expertise in all platforms – S4M, Wide Orbit, Salesforce, Airware, CSGO, DFP – to support revenue generation.
- Build effective solutions-based marketing programs that address identified KPIs for our client partners and deliver results.
- Become expert in Corus “Advanced Advertising” platforms to support revenue generation.
- Exemplary, ethical representation of Corus assets to key Agency and direct client partners.
- Positioning the Corus team as the “go to” solutions provider in the eyes of our clients and agency partners.
Skills and experience you will bring:
- Post Secondary education in Marketing / Sales/ Business/ Communications.
- Minimum of two (2) years in the media or agency related experience.
- Ability to integrate Research into the sales narrative to advance the Corus advantage and drive revenue.
- Ability to execute a thoughtful, concise Customer Needs Analysis (CNA) with clients to identify revenue opportunities.
- Collaborative skills to work with key internal team/stakeholders (Tempo, Creative Services, News) to ideate marketing solutions.
- Ability to build best-in-class presentations that incorporate strategy, research, media recommendations and Corus solutions.
- Execute a best-in-class new business revenue generation strategy that delivers new business targets with keen knowledge of the competitive landscape.
- Accurately forecast revenue for your account/agency responsibilities, working in concert with your client and agency partners that identify accurate revenue opportunity and potential risk.
- Leadership skills to support roles – Inside Sales, Representatives, Account Coordinators, Sales Promotions.
- Possess a great sense for opportunity, with a focus on strong negotiation skills and the ability to close business.
- A strong background in Digital and Social selling as well as a solid understanding of Audience measurement and research.
Application Deadline: August 15, 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.