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Senior Design Manager Jobs in Quebec (NOW HIRING)

... strategy, design inputs, risk management, verification and validation, usability engineering ... The Senior Systems Designer also contributes to quality-related work, procedure improvement ...

The Salesforce Senior Manager will be comfortable in all aspects of Project delivery including solution design, requirements definition, platform configuration, functional and technical documentation ...

Senior Business Operations Manager

Montreal, QC · On-site

CA$118K - CA$168K/yr

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As Senior Product Marketing Manager, you will lead commercialization and go-to-market strategy for ... Strong analytical skills, including the ability to design metrics and use quantitative insights to ...

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How much do senior design manager jobs pay per year?

As of Sep 4, 2026, the average yearly pay for senior design manager in Quebec is $145,689.00, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $128,500.00 and $171,000.00 per year, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What is a senior design manager?

Senior Design Managers are experienced professionals who lead and oversee design teams within an organization. They are responsible for setting design strategies, managing multiple projects, mentoring designers, and ensuring that design outputs align with business objectives. Senior Design Managers collaborate with stakeholders across departments, drive innovation, and maintain high-quality standards in all design processes. Their role is crucial in bridging creative vision with practical execution, ensuring that projects meet both user needs and business goals.

How does a senior design manager typically collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive project success?

As a Senior Design Manager, you will work closely with product managers, engineers, marketing, and other stakeholders throughout the design process. Effective collaboration involves facilitating design reviews, ensuring alignment between business objectives and creative direction, and proactively seeking feedback from multiple departments. You’ll often act as a bridge between the design team and other functions, translating technical or business requirements into actionable design solutions. This collaborative dynamic is essential for delivering cohesive, user-centered products and achieving shared project goals.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a senior design manager, and why are they important?

To thrive as a Senior Design Manager, you need advanced design expertise, leadership experience, and a strong portfolio, often supported by a degree in design or a related field. Familiarity with design tools like Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, and project management platforms such as Asana or Jira is typically required. Exceptional communication, team leadership, and stakeholder management skills set top performers apart. These abilities are crucial for delivering high-quality design solutions, leading creative teams, and aligning design objectives with business goals.

What is the difference between Senior Design Manager vs Design Director?

AspectSenior Design ManagerDesign Director
CredentialsBachelor's or Master's in Design, Architecture, or related field; experience in project managementSimilar educational background; often more extensive experience and leadership credentials
Work EnvironmentLeads design teams on multiple projects, collaborates with clients and stakeholdersOversees entire design departments, sets strategic vision, and manages senior teams
Industry UsageCommonly used in architecture, product, and interior design firmsTypically found in larger organizations with broader strategic responsibilities

The main difference between a Senior Design Manager and a Design Director lies in scope and strategic influence. Senior Design Managers focus on managing design teams and project execution, while Design Directors oversee overall design strategy and department leadership, often with higher-level responsibilities.

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Infographic showing various Senior Design Manager job openings in Quebec as of August 2026, with employment types broken down into 87% Full Time, 12% Part Time, and 1% Contract. Highlights an 79% Physical, 2% Hybrid, and 19% Remote job distribution, with an average salary of $145,689 per year, or $70 per hour.

Senior Manager, Strategic Insights and Foresight

Danone

Boucherville, QC • Hybrid

CA$95K - CA$135K/yr

Full-time

Retirement

Re-posted 22 days ago


Job description

About The Job

The Senior Insights Manager, Foresight supports the organization in anticipating future market, consumer, and category dynamics. In this role, you will build and sustain a structured foresight capability, combining rigorous secondary landscape analysis with self-directed primary research. You will identify emerging trends, demographic shifts, and category opportunities, translating them into clear implications for portfolio strategy, innovation, and long-range planning.

Working closely with Marketing, Innovation, and Enterprise Strategy, you will contribute to long-range portfolio decisions, new category exploration, and enterprise strategic planning.

 

Key Responsibilities: 

Foresight Framework Ownership

  • Own and continuously evolve the company’s foresight framework, including methodology, cadence, and tools to identify, assess, and track trends.
  • Embed foresight across the organization—from analysis to recommendations—supporting senior leadership decision-making.
  • Monitor and synthesize macro and micro trends across health, nutrition, wellness, flavour, and consumer behaviours, serving as the organization’s foresight reference.
  • Identify and interpret demographic shifts and translate them into implications for portfolio strategy and innovation priorities.
  • Coordinate with Global teams to ensure alignment and leverage enterprise perspectives.

Whitespace and Growth Opportunity Assessment

  • Lead structured evaluations of new category, platform, or growth opportunities.
  • Design and execute primary quantitative and qualitative research, complemented by secondary sources, to deliver actionable recommendations to the Leadership Team and key stakeholders.

Long-Range Category Forecasting

  • Build and maintain five-year category forecasts integrating trend signals, demographic tailwinds, and competitive dynamics.
  • Develop scenario-based outlooks to inform annual planning and strategic choices.

Stakeholder Engagement

  • Act as a trusted insights partner, influencing through clear synthesis and storytelling.
  • Partner with senior leaders and functional teams to define and prioritize foresight agendas.
  • Communicate recommended priorities and implications to the Leadership Team and key stakeholders.

The annual base salary range for this position is $95,000.00 to $135,000.00 CAD. The final salary offered will be determined by factors such as relevant experience and qualifications, internal equity and external market conditions. 

Danone Canada also offers a competitive short-term incentive bonus and a comprehensive benefits package, including group insurance, group retirement plans, wellbeing account, flexible time off, true hybrid work environment, paid parental leave, and other attractive options. 

As part of our commitment to transparency in our hiring practices, we may use AI-enabled tools at certain stages of the recruitment process. However, all final hiring decisions are made by people. 

This posting is for an existing vacancy.


About You

Education

  • Background in Business or a related field (degree or equivalent practical experience); a graduate degree is considered an asset.

 Experience

  • 5–7+ years in corporate strategy, strategic planning, marketing, insights, or sales.

 Skills & Capabilities

  • Strategic foresight and consumer insights
  • Quantitative and qualitative research, including primary research leadership
  • Experience with syndicated tools (e.g., Mintel, Euromonitor) and NIQ (RMS and Homescan)
  • Trend analysis, synthesis, and scenario development
  • Executive storytelling and senior-level presentation
  • Strong strategic thinking, analytical rigour, and structured problem-solving
  • Ability to influence without authority and partner effectively with senior stakeholders
  • Intellectual curiosity, self-direction, and commercial acumen

About Us

Danone Canada is part of Danone, the largest certified B Corp™ in the world, proudly using our business as a force for good – creating value for people, communities, and the planet. Guided by our long-standing mission to bring health through food to as many people as possible, we embed this purpose into every aspect of our operations.

Our workforce spans the country, with two headquarters (Boucherville, QC, and Toronto, ON), a production facility in Boucherville, and various remote work sites across the provinces. 

When you join us, you’ll work with some of the best-known food and beverage brands in the world, including Oikos, Activia, Two Good, evian, Silk, International Delight, So Delicious Dairy Free and SToK Cold Brew Coffee.

We offer a competitive and comprehensive total rewards package, including group insurance plans, retirement programs, well-being resources, parental leave, and development opportunities. Plus, a true hybrid work environment and flexible time off, empowering you to balance your personal and professional life.

At Danone, inclusion and diversity are at the heart of who we are. We celebrate unique perspectives and are committed to building a workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to thrive. We encourage applications from everyone and offer accommodations upon request to ensure equitable access for all candidates.

Join us and help shape a healthier, more sustainable world. One Planet. One Health. BY YOU.

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About The Job

Le ou la gestionnaire principal(e), Insights et prospective, soutient l’organisation dans l’anticipation des dynamiques futures des marchés, des consommateurs et des catégories.

Dans ce rôle, vous développerez et maintiendrez une capacité structurée de prospective, en combinant des analyses rigoureuses de sources secondaires avec des recherches primaires menées de façon autonome. Vous identifierez les tendances émergentes, les évolutions démographiques et les opportunités de catégories, et les traduirez en implications claires pour la stratégie du portefeuille, l’innovation et la planification à long terme.

En étroite collaboration avec les équipes Marketing, Innovation et Stratégie d’entreprise, vous contribuerez aux décisions de portefeuille à long terme, à l’exploration de nouvelles catégories et à la planification stratégique de l’entreprise.

Responsabilités principales

  • Pilotage du cadre de prospective
  • Définir et faire évoluer en continu le cadre de prospective de l’entreprise, incluant les méthodologies, les cadences et les outils permettant d’identifier, d’évaluer et de suivre les tendances.
  • Intégrer la prospective à l’ensemble de l’organisation, de l’analyse jusqu’aux recommandations, afin de soutenir la prise de décision des dirigeants.
  • Surveiller et synthétiser les tendances macro et micro liées à la santé, à la nutrition, au bien-être, aux saveurs et aux comportements des consommateurs, en agissant comme référence en matière de prospective.
  • Identifier et interpréter les évolutions démographiques et les traduire en implications pour la stratégie de portefeuille et les priorités d’innovation.
  • Collaborer avec les équipes globales afin d’assurer l’alignement et de tirer parti des perspectives à l’échelle de l’entreprise.

Analyse des espaces de croissance et des opportunités

  • Diriger des évaluations structurées de nouvelles catégories, plateformes ou opportunités de croissance.
  • Concevoir et exécuter des recherches primaires quantitatives et qualitatives, complémentaires aux sources secondaires, afin de fournir des recommandations actionnables à l’équipe de direction et aux parties prenantes clés.

Prévisions de catégorie à long terme

  • Élaborer et maintenir des prévisions de catégorie sur cinq ans, intégrant les signaux de tendances, les dynamiques démographiques et la concurrence.
  • Développer des scénarios prospectifs afin d’éclairer la planification annuelle et les choix stratégiques.

Engagement des parties prenantes

  • Agir comme partenaire de confiance en insights, en influençant grâce à une synthèse claire et à une narration percutante.
  • Collaborer avec les leaders et les équipes fonctionnelles pour définir et prioriser les priorités de prospective.
  • Communiquer les recommandations et leurs implications à l’équipe de direction et aux principales parties prenantes.

La fourchette de salaire annuel de base pour ce poste est de 95,000.00 $ à 135,000.00 $CA. Le salaire final offert sera déterminé en fonction de facteurs tels que l’expérience pertinente et les qualifications, l’équité interne et les conditions du marché externe.

Danone Canada offre également une prime incitative concurrentielle à court terme et un programme complet d’avantages sociaux, y compris une assurance collective, des régimes de retraite collectifs, un compte de bien-être, des congés flexibles, un véritable environnement de travail hybride, un congé parental payé et d’autres options attrayantes. 

Dans le cadre de notre engagement envers la transparence de nos pratiques d’embauche, nous pouvons utiliser des outils basés sur l’IA à certaines étapes du processus de recrutement. Cependant, toutes les décisions finales d’embauche sont prises par des personnes. 

Cette offre d’emploi concerne un poste vacant déjà existant.


About You

Formation

  • Baccalauréat en administration des affaires ou domaine connexe; maîtrise considérée comme un atout.

 

Expérience

  • 5 à 7+ années d’expérience en stratégie corporative, planification stratégique, marketing, insights ou ventes.

 

Compétences et aptitudes

  • Prospective stratégique et insights consommateurs
  • Recherche quantitative et qualitative, incluant le leadership en recherche primaire
  • Expérience avec des outils syndiqués (ex. : Mintel, Euromonitor) et NIQ (RMS et Homescan)
  • Analyse de tendances, synthèse et développement de scénarios
  • Excellente capacité de narration exécutive et de présentation à un niveau senior
  • Forte pensée stratégique, rigueur analytique et capacité de résolution de problèmes structurée
  • Capacité d’influencer sans autorité formelle et de collaborer efficacement avec des parties prenantes senior
  • Curiosité intellectuelle, autonomie et sens des affaires

About Us

Qu’attendez-vous? Rejoignez notre équipe et profitez de ces avantages exceptionnels!

Danone Canada est une unité d’affaires de Danone et œuvre depuis ses sièges sociaux de Boucherville, au Québec, et de Toronto, en Ontario. Danone Canada est la plus importante entreprise certifiée B Corp au pays, attestant qu’elle répond aux normes les plus élevées en matière de performance sociale et environnementale, de responsabilité et de transparence. D’une année à l’autre, Danone est reconnue comme l’un des 100 meilleurs employeurs au Canada pour son environnement de travail avant-gardiste et a reçu la certification parité Femmes dans la gouvernance pour notre engagement envers l’égalité des genres en milieu de travail. Nous avons plus de 500 employés à travers le Canada engagés et prêts à réaliser la mission de Danone : Apporter la santé par la nutrition au plus grand nombre, en travaillant sur des marques fortes telles qu’Activia, Oikos, Danone, Silk, International Delight et plusieurs autres. Joignez-vous à notre mouvement pour un monde plus en santé : One Planet. One Health BY YOU! (Engage-toi avec Danone pour la planète et la santé.)

Danone Canada n’accueille pas seulement ce qui vous rend unique, nous le valorisons! Nous souscrivons fièrement au principe d’égalité des chances, tant pour le personnel en place que pour les candidats, quels que soient leur culture, religion, handicap, sexe, orientation sexuelle, identité, expression de genre ou âge. Fidèles à nos valeurs d’ouverture et d’humanisme, tous nos employés partagent la même conviction de collaborer tous ensemble avec respect et dignité.  

Notez que le masculin est employé uniquement dans le but d’alléger le texte. Nous encourageons la diversité et invitons toutes les personnes qui possèdent les compétences susmentionnées à poser leur candidature.

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Qualifications:

Danone Canada is part of Danone, the largest certified B Corp™ in the world, proudly using our business as a force for good – creating value for people, communities, and the planet. Guided by our long-standing mission to bring health through food to as many people as possible, we embed this purpose into every aspect of our operations.

Our workforce spans the country, with two headquarters (Boucherville, QC, and Toronto, ON), a production facility in Boucherville, and various remote work sites across the provinces. 

When you join us, you’ll work with some of the best-known food and beverage brands in the world, including Oikos, Activia, Two Good, evian, Silk, International Delight, So Delicious Dairy Free and SToK Cold Brew Coffee.

We offer a competitive and comprehensive total rewards package, including group insurance plans, retirement programs, well-being resources, parental leave, and development opportunities. Plus, a true hybrid work environment and flexible time off, empowering you to balance your personal and professional life.

At Danone, inclusion and diversity are at the heart of who we are. We celebrate unique perspectives and are committed to building a workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to thrive. We encourage applications from everyone and offer accommodations upon request to ensure equitable access for all candidates.

Join us and help shape a healthier, more sustainable world. One Planet. One Health. BY YOU.

#LI-NORAM

#LI-HYBRID

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