Portfolio Manager, Store Infrastructure Delivery

Canadian Tire Corporation; Toronto; On-site; CAD 79,000 - 131,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits and retirement

Performance incentives

Continuing Education Programs

Product discounts and career growth

Job summary

Canadian Tire Corporation is seeking a Portfolio Manager, Store Infrastructure Delivery to drive end-to-end delivery of store infrastructure programs. You will manage schedules, budgets, risks, and dependencies while coordinating Infrastructure, Application Delivery, Store Technology, Vendors, and Store Operations across multiple initiatives.

The role requires 7+ years of technology project management, a bachelor’s degree, and certified credentials are an asset.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of technology project, program, or portfolio management experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Technology, Engineering, or related discipline.
• Proven experience managing large-scale cross-functional infrastructure, hardware, technology deployment, or modernization programs.
• Strong expertise in project planning, dependency management, risk mitigation, and stakeholder coordination.
• Experience working with vendors, infrastructure and application teams, operations, and business stakeholders.
• Strong understanding retail operations, deployment, or field readiness experience.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects while maintaining executive-level visibility and reporting.
• Demonstrated experience building integrated schedules and coordinating cross-functional delivery teams.
• Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional initiatives requiring change adoption and operational preparedness.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, and stakeholder management skills.
• PMP, PgMP, Agile certification, or equivalent project management credentials considered an asset.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of store infrastructure projects from planning through deployment and stabilization.
• Manage project schedules, budgets, risks, issues, and dependencies across multiple concurrent initiatives.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams including Infrastructure, Application Delivery, Store Technology, Vendors, Store Operations, Dealers, and DWGs.
• Drive deployment readiness and execution, ensuring stores are prepared and business disruption is minimized.
• Serve as the primary project lead and escalation point, facilitating decision-making and resolving delivery challenges.
• Provide governance, stakeholder management, and project reporting to ensure alignment, transparency, and accountability.
• Oversee operational transition and hypercare activities to ensure successful handoff into support.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Vendor management

Cross-functional coordination

Retail operations knowledge

Agile

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree (Business, Technology, Engineering, or related)

Job description

The Portfolio Manager, Store Infrastructure Delivery is accountable for the successful end-to-end delivery of store infrastructure programs by managing project execution, dependencies, stakeholders, risks, and deployment readiness.

The position serves as the central point of accountability across the infrastructure initiative including application, hardware, vendor, and business teams, coordinating complex dependencies and driving project from planning and design through deployment, stabilization, and operational handoff. The role works closely with Store Operations, Dealers, Infrastructure, Application teams, and external partners to ensure readiness, effective change management, and successful adoption of technology solutions across the store network.

What you’ll do:

• Lead end-to-end delivery of store infrastructure projects from planning through deployment and stabilization.


• Manage project schedules, budgets, risks, issues, and dependencies across multiple concurrent initiatives.


• Coordinate cross-functional teams including Infrastructure, Application Delivery, Store Technology, Vendors, Store Operations, Dealers, and DWGs.


• Drive deployment readiness and execution, ensuring stores are prepared and business disruption is minimized.


• Serve as the primary project lead and escalation point, facilitating decision-making and resolving delivery challenges.


• Provide governance, stakeholder management, and project reporting to ensure alignment, transparency, and accountability.


• Oversee operational transition and hypercare activities to ensure successful handoff into support.

What you bring:

• 7+ years of technology project, program, or portfolio management experience.


• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Technology, Engineering, or related discipline.


• Proven experience managing large-scale cross-functional infrastructure, hardware, technology deployment, or modernization programs.


• Strong expertise in project planning, dependency management, risk mitigation, and stakeholder coordination.


• Experience working with vendors, infrastructure and application teams, operations, and business stakeholders.


• Strong understanding retail operations, deployment, or field readiness experience.


• Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects while maintaining executive-level visibility and reporting.


• Demonstrated experience building integrated schedules and coordinating cross-functional delivery teams.


• Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional initiatives requiring change adoption and operational preparedness.


• Strong written and verbal communication skills, and stakeholder management skills.


• PMP, PgMP, Agile certification, or equivalent project management credentials considered an asset.

We’re always looking for great talent! In addition to competitive pay, we offer:

• Comprehensive benefits and retirement programs


• Performance incentives, Continuing Education Programs


• Other perks to support your well-being


• Career growth opportunities and product discounts

Broadband Salary Range: $79,000 – $131,000.
Ourtypical _hiring range_is between $79,000 and $110,000. Salary decisions are also dependent on other factors such as your experience, industry benchmarks, internal equity and other role-specific requirements. For critical roles, the compensation offering will be reviewed to ensure alignment with market rate and conditions and the unique value you bring to the role.

We may use artificial intelligence tools as part of our recruitment process to assist in the initial screening of resumes. All hiring decisions, including candidate evaluation, selection, and disposition, are made by human recruiters.

About Us

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.

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.