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Canadian Tire

Sells automotive, home, sporting and apparel products

Project Manager - Supply Chain Automation and Asset Management

Full-TimeUpdated Deadline 11/11/26
$79k - $131k+ Performance incentives
Mid
Bachelor's
Brampton, ON, Canada
In Person
Project & Program ManagementProject Management

About the job

Requirements
  • Demonstrated experience leading complex Supply Chain 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 a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
Responsibilities
  • 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 escalate 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.
Desired Qualifications
  • Project management certification such as PMP or an equivalent credential.

About the company

Canadian Tire is a Canadian retail and services group serving households, drivers and people taking part in sport and outdoor activities. Its stores and online shops sell automotive supplies, tools, home and garden products, sporting goods and clothing, with vehicle maintenance available through its automotive service network. The wider group includes banners such as SportChek, Mark's and PartSource, alongside financial services and commercial real estate operations that support the retail network. It combines national retail brands with local dealers and franchise operators to reach customers across Canada. Founded in 1922, Canadian Tire is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Toronto, Canada

Founded

1922

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