AVP, Strategic Development

The AVP, Strategic Development will lead the evaluation and intake of critical new projects, shaping comprehensive strategies for early-stage business concepts and overseeing their initial incubation within the organization. This role is responsible for driving strategic clarity, building actionable roadmaps, and ensuring alignment with enterprise priorities. Acting as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, the AVP will manage high-impact initiatives from intake through execution, collaborating across functions to accelerate progress and deliver measurable outcomes.

• Strategic Intake & Evaluation: Lead rigorous assessment of new business opportunities (including acquisition in-take) and strategic initiatives, ensuring alignment with enterprise objectives.

• Strategy Development: Build comprehensive strategies for early-stage concepts, including market analysis, financial modeling, and risk assessment.

• Incubation & Execution: Oversee initial incubation of new initiatives, ensuring milestones, impact, and timing are met.

• Initiative Leadership: Manage cross-functional working teams, develop detailed roadmaps with milestones, risks, and interdependencies, and ensure effective resourcing.

• Stakeholder Engagement: Serve as a primary liaison to senior executives, providing insights, recommendations, and updates for leadership forums and enterprise planning processes.

• Lifecycle Management: Provide leadership across the full initiative lifecycle—from intake and gating through execution and transition.

• Strategic Thinking: Ability to synthesize complex data into actionable strategies and communicate insights clearly.

• Analytical Rigor: Advanced problem-solving skills, including financial modeling, market analysis, and scenario planning.

• Project Leadership: Proven experience leading large-scale, cross-functional initiatives with multiple stakeholders.

• Stakeholder Management: Exceptional ability to influence and engage senior executives and drive alignment across diverse teams.

• Communication Excellence: Strong executive presence with outstanding written and verbal communication skills.

• Change Leadership: Skilled at driving organizational change and managing ambiguity in dynamic environments.

• Technical Proficiency: Comfort with data visualization tools, advanced Excel, and strategic planning platforms.

• Team Management: Strong team management capability.

Education & Experience:

• MBA or equivalent advanced degree preferred.

• 8+ years of experience in strategy, corporate development, or management consulting.

• Demonstrated track record of delivering enterprise-level strategic initiatives.

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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.