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Canadian Tire

Sells automotive, home, sporting and apparel products

Business Analyst - Supply Chain Automation & Asset Mgmt

Business AnalysisPosted on Nov 11
Full-timeBrampton, ON, CanadaIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Experience performing business analysis within projects, programs, process improvements, technology implementations, or operational change initiatives.
  • Demonstrated capability in stakeholder analysis, facilitated discovery, requirements elicitation, analysis, specification, validation, and traceability.
  • Ability to create process maps, use cases, scenarios, business rules, acceptance criteria, data requirements, and decision-ready analysis.
  • Working knowledge of testing, defect management, business acceptance, change control, operational readiness, and project delivery governance.
  • Strong analytical thinking and structured problem-solving skills, including the ability to conduct root-cause and impact analysis and distinguish facts from assumptions.
  • Strong active listening, facilitation, written communication, organization, and follow-through skills.
  • Ability to work effectively across matrix teams with business leaders, operations, technology, vendors, partners, and subject-matter experts.
  • Demonstrated ability to challenge assumptions constructively, organize complex information, and develop practical recommendations aligned to measurable business outcomes.
  • Practical AI skills, including Microsoft Copilot expertise and proficiency with other digital tools, used to develop process flows, standard operating procedures, work instructions, and other operational documentation and activities.
  • Post-secondary education in business, engineering, supply chain, technology, business analysis, project management, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

  • Plan the business analysis approach, including analysis activities, deliverables, stakeholders, methods, governance, dependencies, review points, approvals, tools, and timing required to support project outcomes.
  • Ensure business analysis activities are logically sequenced, aligned to project milestones, and clearly understood by contributors, reviewers, and decision-makers.
  • Identify appropriate stakeholders and facilitate workshops, interviews, observations, and working sessions to build shared understanding.
  • Work across business leaders, operations, technology, vendors, partners, and subject-matter experts to gather relevant perspectives and align on business needs.
  • Facilitate productive discussions, resolve differences, document decisions, and surface unresolved questions.
  • Maintain clear follow-through on open questions, commitments, and agreed actions.
  • Elicit and analyze business and user needs, constraints, assumptions, problems, opportunities, and desired outcomes.
  • Develop business, stakeholder, functional, non-functional, data, reporting, interface, and transition requirements.
  • Define business rules and acceptance criteria to ensure requirements are clear, complete, feasible, prioritized, testable, and aligned to verified business needs.
  • Ensure requirements are usable by delivery, testing, training, and operational teams.
  • Maintain traceability between business needs, requirements, solution designs, test cases, defects, decisions, and deliverables from discovery through implementation.
  • Assess proposed changes across scope, value, process, technology, data, testing, schedule, cost, and operational readiness.
  • Maintain visibility of requirement status, coverage, decisions, and approved changes.
  • Support appropriate change control before approved baselines are updated.
  • Document and analyze current- and future-state processes, scenarios, use cases, handoffs, roles, controls, and pain points.
  • Evaluate solution options and support evidence-based recommendations that improve value, control, efficiency, usability, and operational outcomes.
  • Identify opportunities to improve processes while ensuring future-state solutions address confirmed business needs.
  • Clearly define roles, controls, handoffs, and business impacts associated with proposed solutions.
  • Develop data requirements and definitions and map relevant data sources and flows.
  • Identify data quality risks and clarify data ownership, integration, reporting, control, and reconciliation requirements.
  • Validate calculations, reports, controls, and information outputs to support operational and business decision-making.
  • Promote consistent data and reporting definitions and ensure quality risks are visible to relevant stakeholders.
  • Clarify problem statements, objectives, scope boundaries, assumptions, options, benefits, measures, and trade-offs.
  • Connect project scope and delivery decisions to confirmed business needs, objectives, and expected benefits.
  • Identify scope gaps or potential value erosion and help maintain alignment between delivery decisions and desired business outcomes.
  • Separate facts from assumptions and conduct root-cause and impact analysis.
  • Prepare decision-ready options, constraints, trade-offs, dependencies, risks, and recommendations to support timely and informed decisions.
  • Develop or support test scenarios, test cases, test data, and expected results aligned to approved requirements and critical business scenarios.
  • Support requirements coverage, defect triage, retesting, and the definition of testing entry and exit criteria.
  • Ensure defects, test results, and acceptance decisions are supported by clear evidence.
  • Support business acceptance and sign-off activities prior to implementation.
  • Assess solution impacts to people, processes, roles, policies, data, controls, training, communication, support, and operations.
  • Coordinate with organizational change, training, operations, and support teams to identify readiness gaps and transition risks.
  • Support training, adoption, transition, and operational readiness activities ahead of implementation.
  • Ensure impacted stakeholders understand what is changing and that key readiness needs and risks are visible prior to implementation.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience with predictive, adaptive, or hybrid project delivery approaches is considered an asset.
  • IIBA ECBA, CCBA, CBAP, PMI-PBA, CAPM, PMP, or an equivalent business analysis or project management credential is considered an asset.

About the Company

Canadian Tire

Sells automotive, home, sporting and apparel products

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
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
Toronto, Canada
Founded
1922

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