Portfolio Enablement Manager
Full Time Permanent
Oakville, 4 days on-site
Client: Canadian Tire
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.
Role Summary
The Portfolio Enablement Manager (PEM) is accountable for enabling portfolio?level delivery excellence across Engineering by ensuring initiatives are set up for execution success through effective intake, resource orchestration, financial stewardship, and proactive risk management.
This role partners closely with portfolio VPs/AVPs, Engineering platform leaders, Delivery Program Managers, Finance, and external partners to align resources and funding to portfolio priorities, improve delivery predictability, and drive measurable business outcomes. The PEM operates at the portfolio level, focusing on governance, enablement, and orchestration rather than day?to?day squad execution.
Primary Responsibilities
Portfolio Intake & Enablement
- Act as the first point of contact for new work, providing portfolio?level oversight and stewardship as initiatives progress through Discovery & Design and prepare for execution readiness
- Partner with portfolio VPs/AVPs to understand priorities, sequencing, and target outcomes
- Provide enablement and support to Delivery Program Managers to ensure initiatives are positioned for successful delivery
Resource Planning & Orchestration
- Serve as the single point of contact for portfolio VPs/AVPs on Engineering resource requirements
- Build and maintain portfolio?level resource plans aligned to priorities, funding, and capacity constraints
- Partner with Engineering practice and resource managers, as well as external partners, to identify, secure, and optimize FTE and partner resources
- Proactively identify and address resourcing constraints, dependencies, and risks, escalating as required
Partner Management
- Act as the portfolio point of contact into Accenture and other external partners for incremental resource needs (staff augmentation)
- Support demand shaping, onboarding, access, and alignment of partner resources to portfolio priorities
Financial Stewardship
- Provide stewardship of portfolio and platform budgets in partnership with platform AVPs and Finance
- Own portfolio?level budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and cost allocation across initiatives and platforms
- Support timely accruals and invoice processing, ensuring partner costs are allocated in line with approved budgets and forecasts
Delivery Governance & Risk Management
- Track initiative progress across the portfolio using agreed metrics and tooling
- Anticipate, identify, and manage delivery, resourcing, and financial risks; drive mitigation plans and timely escalation
- Contribute to continuous improvement of delivery practices, governance, and portfolio?level transparency
Skills & Experience
Financial & Portfolio Management
- Budgeting, forecasting, accruals, invoice management, and variance analysis
- Portfolio?level financial governance and reporting
Delivery & Scope Management
- Establishing outcomes, MVPs, epics, stories, releases, and milestones
- Strong understanding of Agile delivery methodologies, including SAFe
- Experience working with Scrum and Kanban delivery models
- Product lifecycle management
Resource & Risk Management
- Building and managing complex resource plans across internal and partner delivery models
- Anticipating, identifying, and mitigating delivery, resourcing, and financial risks
Soft Skills
- Outcome?focused mindset
- Action orientation
- Critical thinking and structured problem solving
- Executive?level stakeholder management
- Effective communication and facilitation
- Collaboration across cross?functional teams
- Empathy and emotional intelligence
Tool Skills
- Planview
- Excel
- PowerPoint
- Jira
- Confluence
- Lucid
- Delivery Central
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.
The pay range that the employer reasonably expects to pay for this position is between CA$81,000 and CA$125,000
Our voluntary benefits offering includes medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits.
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