Associate Vice President, Transformation Activation

What you'll do

The AVP, Strategic Activation is responsible for leading the activation and execution of transformation workstreams across Canadian Tire Corporation (CTC), ensuring alignment with enterprise strategic objectives and the timely delivery of milestones. The AVP acts as the primary liaison between the Transformation Management Office (TMO) and business units, enabling successful outcomes for enterprise-wide initiatives through decisive leadership and cross-functional collaboration.

• Strategic Oversight & Prioritization:  Act as the key liaison between the TMO and business units, including commercial leaders (COO, Supply Chain), and senior stakeholders. Ensure alignment of the strategic direction with CTC’s enterprise objectives. Oversee the development and sign-off of initiative charters, business cases, and roadmaps, ensuring all initiatives contribute to value creation and organizational goals.

• Enterprise Accountability & Decision-Making:  Hold initiative owners and teams accountable for delivery of milestones and outcomes. Track status of all initiatives, manage timelines, milestones, and risks, and ensure all workstreams deliver against commitments.  Act as the escalation authority, intervening directly on off-track workstreams, identifying roadblocks, and manage trade-offs and resource allocation decisions to maintain progress.

• Financial Ownership & Value Realization:  Drivee on-time, on-forecast planning to enable value creation. Monitor and report on financial adherence, variances, and value realization, driving financial discipline across all transformation initiatives.

• Operating Cadence Enforcement:  Maintain the weekly TMO operating cadence, facilitating meetings, capturing actions, and ensuring timely follow-through on decisions and commitments. Drive discipline and accountability in all transformation forums.

• Cross-Functional Alignment & Resource Management:  Identify interdependencies across teams, manage trade-offs, and reallocate resources to support cross-functional alignment and maintain momentum. Influence escalation and reprioritization decisions to ensure strategic objectives are met.

What you bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Engineering, or related field (MBA preferred).

• Minimum 8+ years of experience in transformation management, program management, or strategic initiatives, with a proven track record of leading large-scale, cross-functional transformation programs. Strong financial acumen, expertise in risk management and value realization tracking, and experience influencing senior stakeholders in complex environments.

• Proficiency in program management tools and methodologies, strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and the ability to interpret financial data and link investment to value creation.

• Strategic thinking and enterprise leadership

• Decisive intervention and resource management

• Financial discipline and value realization

• Stakeholder influence and cross-functional collaboration

• Accountability for outcomes and transformation success

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This posting represents an existing vacancy within our organization.

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.