Sr. Project Manager

What you'll do

As a Senior Project Manager in IT, you will lead complex IT projects from start to finish by overseeing teams, managing resources, communicating with stakeholders, mitigating risks, and ensuring successful project delivery within specified constraints while maintaining a budget portfolio.

In this role, you'll:

• Be accountable for end to end delivery of projects, with the specified level of quality for the project sponsor, on time and within budget and scope

• Identify critical path and determines and integrates milestones, control points, imposed dates and Go/No-go decision points into the schedule

• Provide a high level of relationship management; resolving conflicts and enabling discussions amongst stakeholders, management, co-workers and team members with varied interests

• Prepare and delivers Executive Level presentations; facilitates workshops; handles complex questions from varied audiences

• Prepare status reports and writes clear, concise communications related to complex and/or sensitive issues

• Conduct formal risk management sessions, documents and manages risk management plans

What you bring

• University Degree or equivalent

• Minimum of 8 years experience in managing medium to large complex projects

• Core PM competencies: budget and timeline management, scope management, risk management, timely decision-making, effective team building, ability to prioritize and delegate appropriately and deal with changing priorities

• Experience in creating project cost benefit analyses, presenting project budgets, assumptions; ability to attend to management queries related to project budget

• Excellent people management and leadership skills

• Strong experience working with vendors and managing teams in a matrix environment

• Prior experience in navigating long run complex projects are an asset

• Experience working in web-based, infrastructure, network, cloud, security projects are an asset

• Previous work experience at a Financial Institution is considered an asset

• PMP or SCRUM Master designation is considered an asset

We are looking for individuals who are:

• Creative and courageous, with the ability to manage in an environment of change and ambiguity to help us take bold, strategic moves in this rapidly evolving retail environment

• Action oriented, and comfortable taking calculated risks to better serve our customers and business

• Outcome focused, critical thinkers with the ability to analyze and visualize, to ensure continuous improvement across our entire business

• Collaborative team players with superior influencing skills, who build relationships easily across various stakeholder groups to move initiatives forward

If you're curious, ready to take on new challenges and open to doing things differently to help us evolve rapidly, then this is definitely the place to be.

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.

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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.