Project Manager, Supply Chain Automation and Asset Management

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

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits & retirement

Incentives & education

Wellbeing perks

Career growth & discounts

Broadband

Job summary

Canadian Tire Corporation is seeking a seasoned project/ program leader to drive complex Supply Chain initiatives from planning to closeout. You will coordinate cross-functional teams, align objectives, and manage scope, schedule, budget, and vendor obligations to deliver business value.

The role requires translating complex information into executive updates, maintaining governance, and guiding change control across matrix teams.

Qualifications

• Requires experience leading complex Supply Chain projects or programs across planning, execution, testing, implementation, stabilization and closeout.
• Demonstrates command of PM across scope, schedule, cost, resources, quality, risk, governance, change, stakeholders and benefits.
• Ability to translate complex information into concise executive updates and action plans.
• Strong financial, analytical, problem-solving, facilitation, negotiation and conflict-resolution skills.

Responsibilities

• Set direction and accountabilities; align workstreams and manage interdependencies.
• Define objectives, deliverables, acceptance criteria, assumptions, and benefits.
• Lead change control and risk management; protect approved outcomes and value.
• Maintain integrated schedules, budgets, forecasts, and resource plans; manage vendors and contracts.
• Provide leadership to project teams; coach and develop talent; ensure inclusive collaboration.
• Ensure end-to-end testing readiness, go/no-go decisions, and post-implementation stabilization.

Skills

Supply Chain projects

Integrated PM practices

Cross-functional collaboration

IT collaboration

Executive updates

Financial & analytical skills

Delivery methodologies

PMP certification

Education

Post-secondary education in business/engineering/supply chain/tech/project management

PMI/PMP certification asset

Job description

What you’ll do:

Set direction, establish accountabilities, align workstreams, manage interdependencies and trade-offs, resolve conflicts, and protect approved outcomes and business value. Define objectives, boundaries, deliverables, requirements, acceptance criteria, assumptions, and benefits. Lead impact assessments and formal change control to prevent unauthorized scope growth. Build and maintain an integrated schedule with milestones, critical paths, dependencies, constraints, forecasts, and recovery actions. Communicate impacts early and challenge unsupported commitments. Maintain budgets, forecasts, actuals, commitments, resource plans, procurement activities, contracts, vendor obligations, and invoice controls. Maintain visible and actionable risk, issue, assumption, dependency, change, and decision records. Assign owners, confirm mitigations and contingencies, and elevate at the appropriate level. Define decision rights, forums, reporting cadence, stage gates, approvals, assurance activities, and audit-ready project records. Prepare concise, decision-ready leadership materials. Build trusted relationships, facilitate difficult discussions, tailor communications to the audience, and clearly articulate status, impacts, decisions, actions, and accountabilities. Clarify roles and priorities, delegate effectively, coach contributors, address performance barriers and conflict, recognize contributions, and foster inclusive, constructive collaboration. Lead direct reports and provide functional leadership to project team members. Set clear expectations, provide regular coaching and feedback, support development plans, and build project management expertise through mentoring, shared standards, and practical learning opportunities. Define quality expectations, integrate end-to-end testing, monitor defects and evidence, confirm entry and exit criteria, and lead acceptance and Go / No-Go readiness discussions. Partner with change and operations teams to assess impacts, prepare users, coordinate training and communications, plan cutover and contingency, and establish support, stabilization, handover, and benefits ownership.

What you bring:

Demonstrated experience leading Supply Chain complex projects or programs through planning, execution, testing, implementation, stabilization, and closeout. Strong command of integrated project management practices across scope, schedule, cost, resources, quality, risk, governance, change, stakeholders, and benefits. Experience working across matrix teams, operational groups, vendors, partners, and subject-matter experts without relying solely on direct authority. Experience partnering with IT teams on solution design to deliver integrated Supply Chain and IT projects. Ability to translate complex information into clear executive updates, recommendations, decisions, and action plans. Sound financial, commercial, analytical, problem-solving, facilitation, negotiation, and conflict-resolution skills. Experience with predictive, adaptive, or hybrid delivery approaches, selecting the method that best fits the context. High professional accountability, good judgement, integrity, resilience, learning agility, and commitment to inclusive leadership. Post-secondary education in business, engineering, supply chain, technology, project management, or related discipline, or equivalent practical experience. Project management certification such as PMP or an equivalent credential is an asset.

Benefits and Compensation:

In addition to competitive pay, we offer:

• Comprehensive benefits and retirement programs
• Performance incentives, Continuing Education Programs
• Other perks to support your wellbeing
• Career growth opportunities and product discounts
• Broadband

Salary Range: $79,000 – $131,000. Our typical 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.

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 wellbeing, 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.

We are always on the lookout for curious, creative people who are able to navigate and excel in a rapidly evolving retail environment.

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.

Additional Information:

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. This posting represents an existing vacancy within our organization. If you’re ready to take on new challenges – be it in digital, IT, marketing, data & analytics, merchandising, or one of the many other roles we have – there is a place for you here.