Katrina Nickel

Professional Summary

Strategic marketing and consumer insights leader with experience uncovering customer needs, identifying growth opportunities, and translating research and market insights into actionable business strategies. Skilled at aligning cross-functional teams, simplifying complex challenges, and turning consumer understanding into meaningful action that drives customer engagement, brand growth, and business performance.

Work Experience

Strategy Consultant

Havas CX Canada, Toronto 2022 - Present
Clients: Cineplex, Loyalty One, TELUS, NTT Data, Vepdeg, Arvinas, Manulife
  • Led stakeholder interviews, customer research, and competitive analysis for Cineplex's enterprise-wide customer experience transformation, helping define a future-state vision spanning theatres, Rec Room, Playdium, and streaming experiences.
  • Develop customer journey frameworks across Awareness, Consideration, Purchase, and Loyalty stages, identifying unmet customer needs, experience gaps, and strategic opportunities to improve engagement and long-term loyalty.
  • Facilitate alignment workshops with product, marketing, digital, and executive stakeholders, translating diverse perspectives into a shared strategic direction and prioritized roadmap for investment.
  • Led discovery and strategic assessment for NTT DATA's global website transformation, identifying opportunities to address fragmented customer experiences, inconsistent brand messaging, and disconnected content strategies across international markets.
  • Synthesize stakeholder feedback, user research, ecosystem audits, and competitive insights into a North Star vision for a unified global customer experience, brand platform, and personalization strategy.
  • Conduct capability assessments and gap analyses across people, process, technology, and data for a global pharmaceutical launch, identifying the organizational capabilities required to deliver a future-state omnichannel customer experience.Design future-state operating models, capability frameworks, and phased implementation roadmaps that connected customer needs, business priorities, and organizational readiness into actionable transformation plans.
  • Design future-state operating models, capability frameworks, and phased implementation roadmaps that connected customer needs, business priorities, and organizational readiness into actionable transformation plans.

Marketing Strategist, Manager | Marketing Technology

Deloitte Canada, Toronto 2020 - 2022
  • Served as a senior strategic partner between Marketing and Agency teams, ensuring consumer insights and data-driven strategy informed campaign planning and execution.
  • Drove a unified, insight-to-action approach integrating performance metrics, consumer research, and business priorities across LinkedIn, social media, email, and Deloitte site pages.
  • Advised senior leadership on campaign optimization, translating complex findings into clear recommendations and prioritized actions that accelerated business growth.
  • Utilized Eloqua, Adobe, and Google Analytics to define goals, assess execution options, run A/B tests, and implement in-flight performance adjustments based on consumer data.
  • Ensured campaign execution was supported by measurable KPIs, clear communication, and continuous learning to strengthen both immediate outcomes and long-term improvement.

Co-Founder

RESET Canada, Toronto 2017 - 2020
  • Led a team of 8 to educate consumers on sustainability and renewable energy through research-driven meetups, social events, and hands-on workshops.
  • Spoke and acted as moderator at events with 50+ attendees, translating complex topics into actionable insights for diverse audiences.
  • Managed monthly e-newsletters distributed to 600+ subscribers, leveraging consumer feedback to optimize content and engagement.

Senior Account Supervisor

Spider Marketing, Toronto 2016 - 2020
Clients: Andrew Peller, Barilla, Bayer Inc., Kruger, Lantic, McCormick, Parmalat, Red Prince
  • Developed strategic briefs, marketing plans, and research-driven scopes of work to ensure alignment and operational rigor across all initiatives.
  • Led end-to-end planning and execution of multi-platform campaigns integrating digital, promotional, and social strategies to drive consumer engagement and measurable brand growth.
  • Executed comprehensive campaigns comprising contest websites, digital advertising, consumer promotions, fulfillment, social media management, POS, e-newsletters, and microsites.
  • Created strategic creative briefs that aligned directly with client business objectives and ensured cross-functional teams executed against clear, insight-driven direction.
  • Managed six- to seven-figure campaign budgets, ensuring efficient allocation, performance optimization, and accountability to financial and strategic targets.
  • Collaborated with cross-disciplinary teams to deliver cohesive brand storytelling and actionable insights tailored to audience needs.

Account Supervisor

MacLaren McCann, Toronto 2011 - 2013
Clients: GM Canada, GM Canada - Goodwrench Parts & Service
  • Managed three team members and provided ongoing mentorship, including performance reviews and professional development support.
  • Worked directly with the VP Group Account Director to deliver strategic marketing guidance to the Goodwrench client during brand planning and program launches.
  • Oversaw the execution of all digital video campaigns for the Goodwrench and Optimum websites, ensuring delivery within budget and meeting performance expectations.
  • Partnered with social planners to develop the Facebook social strategy for Goodwrench's 2012 planning cycle, leveraging consumer insights to inform content.
  • Authored communication briefs to guide consistent messaging and cross-functional execution.