Program Manager, Automotive Growth & Transformation

What you'll do

As the Program Manager, Automotive Growth & Transformation, you will be responsible for overseeing multiple automotive projects at CTC, ensuring they align with the company's strategic goals and are completed successfully. The role involves coordinating efforts across various teams, managing resources, and communicating with stakeholders to ensure all aspects of the program are executed effectively. 
 

• Identify and manage project interdependencies and cross-project issues.
• Plan, prepare, and maintain project schedules to meet program objectives.
• Identify critical paths and integrate milestones, control points, imposed dates, and Go/No-go decision points into the schedule.
• Manage scope, schedule, and cost priorities among stakeholders and within project teams.
• Use appropriate planning and monitoring techniques to control deliverables and costs.
• Coordinate change management activities related to the program and its workstreams.
• Serve as an escalation point for business owners and workstream leaders of ongoing projects.
• Prepare and deliver executive presentations; facilitate workshops and handle complex questions from diverse audiences.
• Provide status updates and write clear, concise communications on complex issues.
• Work with various internal and external stakeholders at CTC, including dealers and vendors.
• Drive the decision-making process; proactively take the initiative to identify and resolve issues.
• Apply a structured approach to problem-solving, understanding the context and impact of problems while demonstrating extensive knowledge of available resources.

What you bring
 

• Strong program and project management skills with 7+ years of experience.
• Excellent communication skills with proven ability to communicate with internal and external stakeholders at all levels.
• Proven leadership and ability to influence and maintain focus on sustainable results.
• Dynamic, ability to work in a changing environment.
• Sense of prioritization and change management.

Hybrid 

We value flexibility. We have adopted a hybrid work model whereby employees use a combination of working in office and virtually in service of outcomes. Each leader is empowered to decide what work is best achieved in person based on the unique needs of their team.

About Us

Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited ("CTC") is one of Canada's most admired and trusted companies. With more than 90 Owned Brands, 1,700 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.