Manager, Transformation Activation

About Us
Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited (“CTC”) is one of Canada’s most admired and trusted companies. With more than 90 Owned Brands, 1,700 retail locations, financial services, exemplary e-commerce capabilities, and exciting market-leading merchandising strategies. We dream big and work as one to innovate with purpose for our customers at every level of our business, investing in new technologies and products, and doubling down on top talent to drive the company forward. We offer competitive salaries and wages to CTC employees, as well as store discounts, supported learning through our Triangle Learning Academy, Canadian Tire Profit Sharing, and retirement and savings programs for eligible employees. As part of our enhanced flex benefits program, we offer mental health benefits in the amount of $5,000 per year for benefits-eligible employees and their families, including total well-being, and mental health tools and resources for all employees. Join us in helping to make life in Canada better through living and working our Core Values: we are innovators and entrepreneurs at our core, outcomes drive us, inclusion is a must, we are stronger together and we take personal responsibility. It is an especially exciting time to join CTC and its family of companies where career opportunities are wide-ranging! Join us, where there's a place for you here.

What you'll do
 
Reporting to the Associate Vice President, Transformation Management, the Manager, Transformation Activation will be a key partner to True North Initiative Leads and Workstream Leads in driving the execution of initiative roadmaps. This role requires developing a deep understanding of initiative outcomes and acts as a facilitator to proactively identify risks, issues, and roadblocks to initiative success. They will act as a “connector” to bring enterprise-wide context to identify solutions to ensure CTC delivers on its financial and strategic objectives.
 
This role will work closely with initiative teams and the Transformation Management Office (TMO) to identify key milestones and deliverables for value creation and leverage the weekly SteerCo operating cadence to escalate decisions and trade-off discussions as needed, to allow the organization to move at pace.

• Support True North Initiatives: Act as the main liaison for the TMO, working directly with Initiative Leads to monitor progress related to CTC’s commercial portfolio (CCO, COO, CDO purview).
• Initiative Lead Support & Orchestration: Provide strategic support for Initiative Leads in managing roadmap milestones, proactively identifying risks or concerns in dependencies and resource constraints. Collaborate with senior leaders to clear paths for initiative teams, surface dependencies, and connect the dots across initiatives and functions within CTC.
• Track Progress & Manage Risks: Maintain visibility of initiative roadmap progression and milestone completion, identifying where intervention or escalation is required. Raise risks and issues to TMO leadership for executive discussions.
• Active Facilitation: Facilitate discussions to understand the full implications of initiative progress/delays including impacts to financial and strategic objectives, upstream or downstream dependencies, funding, and/or resource requirements.

 
What you bring
 

• Project Management: Extensive experience in project management or a related field with proven ability to manage complex, highly cross-functional delivery streams.
• Retail Expertise: Deep understanding of retail operations and capabilities, with specific expertise in areas such as pricing/promotions, merchandising, loyalty, and/or digital products.
• Communication Skills: Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels; demonstrated comfort in presenting and collaborating with senior leaders (VP+).
• Curious & Growth Mindset: Thrives in ambiguity and able to form a clear path where one does not currently exist, while bringing others along the journey. Naturally curious and inquisitive, takes initiative to understand gaps in knowledge.
• Problem-Solving Skills: Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to identify risks and develop mitigation strategies. A “figure it out” approach to any challenge or opportunity.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging 
We are committed to fostering an environment where belonging thrives, and diversity, inclusion and equity are infused into everything we do. We believe in building an organizational culture where people are consistently treated with dignity while respecting individual religion, nationality, gender, race, age, perceived ability, spoken language, sexual orientation, and identification. We are united in our purpose of being here to help make life in Canada better.
 
Accommodations  
We stand firm in our Core Value that inclusion is a must. We welcome and encourage candidates from equity-seeking groups such as people who identify as racialized, Indigenous, 2SLGBTQIA+, women, people with disabilities, and beyond. Should you require any accommodation in applying for this role, or throughout the interview process, please make them known when contacted and we will work with you to help meet your needs.