imperial tobacco canada - Our functions

Marketing employees at Imperial Tobacco Canada seek new and responsible methods to communicate with adult smokers.

We offer opportunities across a range of functional areas. If you are already working but looking for a career change, you may find that we offer a fresh solution for you.

Marketing

At Imperial Tobacco Canada, the adult smoker is at the centre of our business. Marketing in the tobacco industry requires skills beyond those required by traditional product marketing. Differentiating our initiatives and innovating - while always marketing apprpriately - are among this team’s challenges. So is managing mutually beneficial relationships with our key accounts and retailers, following the implementation of Direct to Store Sales across the country.

Marketing employees at Imperial Tobacco Canada seek new and responsible methods to communicate with adult smokers. These employees require a comprehensive understanding of the marketplace, including adult smokers’ preferences. Ensuring that adult smokers can buy their products when and where they want them, while complying with all regulations, are key success factors in building market share.

Supply Chain

The Supply Chain team is responsible for process management and strategic sourcing of all materials. This team pursues globally-efficient manufacturing with respect to all products, ensures delivery that responds to consumer preferences and ensures total quality management from raw materials to adult smoker satisfaction.

Team members have a broad range of skills -- from managing people to embracing advances in technology and committing to the highest standards in production, management, quality, and safety.

Finance

At Imperial Tobacco Canada, our Finance people are commercially astute, intellectually curious and passionate about business life.

Bringing financial focus to help maximize productivity and profitability is a major part of this team’s role. Armed with a profound understanding of our stakeholders’ environment, Finance team members act as business advisers to help develop and clearly communicate financial strategies that directly support the company’s overall objectives.

Information Technology

The objective of the Information Technology team is to ensure the delivery of world class services, to enable business change and to contribute to increased productivity. The team strives to create value and competitive advantage through strategies that capture the direction of emerging technologies and their potential to benefit the company and our business partners.

Information Technology team members possess expertise in a broad range of technologies and disciplines. They add value through business consulting, business IT analysis and the sound management of programs.

Human Resources

The role of the Human Resources team is to attract, develop, energize, mobilize and retain talented people and teams to achieve our shared goals. HR helps shape the culture of this dynamic business, creating an environment that emphasizes and rewards performance, while supporting learning and development.

The Human Resources team leads by example in an open, fun, confident and winning culture – aligning business and individual objectives, and guiding the organization through change.

Corporate Affairs

The mission of our Corporate Affairs team is to continuously build our corporate reputation and protect it responsibly through advocacy and strategic communications that project our values, views and initiatives. As a responsible company in a controversial industry, we deal every day with friendly or hostile messages that require reasoned responses. In a business environment that is both inspiring and uniquely challenging, the Corporate Affairs team thrives on challenge.

This team develops relationships with our stakeholders, including governments, interest groups, media, scientists, employees, non-governmental organizations, local communities, consumers and business partners.

Corporate Affairs uses its deep understanding of the socio-economic and political environments to ensure integrity across every function.

Law

As a function in one of the most regulated industries in Canada, the Law team deals with controversial and complex issues. This team guides, protects, and defends the company, our business, our long-term prosperity and our assets.

Integrated into every business activity and project that has legal or regulatory implications, the legal team has extensive opportunities to positively impact our business.