Team Lead, Development & Store Planning

What You’ll Do

The Team Lead Development Planning is a solution and action orientated retailer at heart who places emphasis on delivering strong team results through strong project management, articulation of strategy, innovation and process improvement. The Team Lead is responsible for the timely management and quality delivery of the major capital project schedule for all CTR store projects ensuring they are financially sound, translate business strategy, improve the customer experience, store operations and drive overall sales. The Team Lead will accomplish this by leading and coaching a team of Development Planners to create multiple accurate and detailed buildings.

• Ensure accurate and quality detailed plans and for building architecture, electrical and structural plans. Providing architectural recommendations to Real Estate & Construction and architects on building decisions for any element that does not fit current retail strategy
• Establish and maintain trusting relationships with Associate Dealers, Senior Management and key cross functional groups. Work closely with external parties such as architects and engineers.
• Plan, build or direct drawings of various store tests, complex store specific plans and or store renewal enhancements through AutoCAD
• Lead a team of Development Planners to analyze and interpret key performance indicators to create accurate, actionable detailed and fact-based store specific retail floor plans consistent with the prototypical concept retail plans
• Continuously focus and implement process improvements to increase planning efficiencies, overall quality measures and cross functional team integration efficiencies including developing roles and responsibilities
• Train and coach new Development Planners
• Plan and manage the Network major project schedule and the day to day quality production and development of all CTR store specific projects ensuring they deliver on strategy, time and budget
• Review and prepare timely, detailed and accurate store specific presentation documents outlining trade area demographics, local competition, market spend, overall store sales, category sales, sales opportunities, store retail and warehouse sqft’s and category performance of project stores

What You Bring

• In depth experience in project management and process improvement
• Proven leadership experience, proven ability to manage a team of direct or indirect reports in a fast paced and diverse environment
• Demonstrated ability to negotiate and influence
• Strong relationship management, interpersonal, communication and presentation skills
• Minimum 5+ years progressive retail acumen, primarily Canadian Tire (merchandising and store operations)
• Highly motivated with commitment and passion to achieve results
• Bilingual English/French an asset
• University degree or college diploma required
• AutoCad experience is a must
• Excellent organizational and time management ability
• Proficient with MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access)

Hybrid

At Canadian Tire we work flexibility embracing ‘Hybrid’ whereby individuals utilize a combination of working at a CTC campus and or virtually in service of outcomes. Determined by managers, decisions around work location will be made based on business and team needs and grounded in a desire to support individual well-being and personal needs. Our goal is to empower teams and individuals to make the right decisions for them, and we expect that to look different for everyone

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.