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About the Role
The Associate Manager, Transformation Activation supports the activation of transformation workstreams across Canadian Tire Corporation (CTC), ensuring alignment with enterprise strategic objectives and the timely delivery of outcomes. This role partners with business units and initiative owners to drive accountability, disciplined execution, and maintain visibility into progress.
Responsibilities
- Support the execution of transformation initiatives by tracking timelines, milestones, risks, and dependencies.
- Work closely with initiative owners and teams to ensure deliverables are progressing on plan, proactively identifying gaps or risks early.
- Contribute to the development of initiative and project proposals, plans and roadmaps.
- Ensure materials are aligned to enterprise priorities and clearly articulate objectives, outcomes, and value.
- Support governance forums by preparing materials, ensuring high-quality pre-reads, and translating outputs into clear action plans.
- Ensure reporting is accurate, insight-driven, and clearly surfaces risks, trade-offs, and required decisions.
- Coordinate across business units and functions to align on priorities, timelines, and interdependencies.
- Proactively identify misalignments, dependency risks, and trade-offs, and work with stakeholders to resolve them.
- Escalate conflicts when alignment cannot be achieved.
- Support validation and tracking of value realization, including identifying gaps between plan and forecasts.
- Proactively identify risks and delivery challenges across workstreams.
- Support the development of mitigation plans and escalate issues to senior team members to ensure timely resolution.
Requirements
- Ability to bring structure to ambiguous problems and define clear paths to execution.
- 3–5+ years of experience in transformation, program management, consulting, or strategic initiatives, with experience supporting cross-functional projects and multiple stakeholders.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret data and support tracking of progress and value realization.
- Proficiency in program management tools and methodologies, with strong organization and execution discipline.
- Strong executive communication skills, including the ability to distill complex information into clear, concise materials.
- Advanced proficiency in PowerPoint and Excel, with demonstrated financial acumen and the ability to link analysis to business outcomes.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across functions.
- Analytical thinking and problem solving, with the ability to translate data into clear insights and actions.
- Stakeholder coordination and cross-functional collaboration.
- Judgment on when and how to escalate issues.
- Ability to deliver on commitments within the assigned scope.
- Ability to distill complex discussions into clear, actionable outputs (decisions, actions, ownership).
Skills
- Transformation
- Program Management
- Consulting
- Strategic Initiatives
- Cross-functional Projects
- Stakeholder Management
- Analytical Skills
- Problem-Solving
- Data Interpretation
- Program Management Tools
- Execution Discipline
- Executive Communication
- PowerPoint
- Excel
- Financial Acumen
- Communication Skills
- Collaboration
- Analytical Thinking
- Stakeholder Coordination
- Issue Escalation
Location
- Canada
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 3-5+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Engineering, or related field.
Salary/Compensations
- $64,000.00 – $106,000.00
- Our typical hiring range is between $64,000 and $85,000.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits and retirement programs
- Performance incentives
- Continuing Education Programs
- Other perks to support your well-being
- Career growth opportunities
- Product discounts
- Store discounts
- Supported learning through our Triangle Learning Academy
- Canadian Tire Profit Sharing
- Retirement and savings programs for eligible employees
- Enhanced flex benefits program
- Mental health benefits in the amount of $5,000 per year for benefits-eligible employees and their families
- Total well-being
- Mental health tools and resources for all employees
About the Company
- Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited (“CTC”) is one of Canada’s most admired and trusted companies.
- With more than 90 Owned Brands, over 1,600 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.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.
- 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.