Job Information
Canadian Tire AVP, Design & Construction in Calgary, Alberta
What You’ll Do
This position has three primary areas of focus – a) lead the retail design and project delivery teams working with real estate development, senior business leaders and project stakeholders ensuring that project delivery meets and conforms to business capital investment requirements, b) developing and implementing innovative store design that enhances the customer experience and contributes to sales growth whilst at the same time creating, maintaining and communicating prototype standards that look to minimize construction and operating costs, and c) develop creative, cost effective fixturing solutions and ensure their timely procurement and installation in support of the business unit’s objectives.
Construction Standards and Retail Design and Innovation
Leading the team to create innovative, cost effective and sustainable store designs that enhance the customer experience, contribute to sales growth and meet company strategic goals.
Understanding of retail design trends and construction innovations
Effective communication of design related risks
Ensure that all drawings and specifications for Mark’s and Sport Chek are coordinated and reduce risk
Set specific performance targets related to value engineering and sustainability
Oversee contract administration role to ensure compliance with audit procedures
Liaise with prototype team to ensure inclusion in the consultant and contractors contracts
Procurement and Fixture Design
Refine a consistent retail fixturing environment nationwide for Mark’s and Sport Chek with a focus on developing department standards, optimizing value for money, life cycle and design quality.
Participate in high level vendor relationships to ensure company standardizations and processes are in place
Manage the allocated capital budgets
Build a collaborative process for future fixture procurement development, maximize fixture stock use and excess in store fixtures.
Construction and Project Management
Nationally lead the project execution team, delivering consistently on time, budget and to quality requirements.
Communicate with internal and external stakeholders
Managing the due diligence phase for potential projects
Working with the estimating team to produce estimates for projects
Oversee the vendor management and tendering process, to ensure compliance with audit procedures
Seek opportunity for value optimization throughout the project life cycle
Source and manage project delivery resources, both internal and external, to ensure best in class project management.
Ensure Lucernex (our project management software) is accurate and up to date
Coaching and mentoring direct reports
What You Bring
Minimum of 12 years’ experience in retail design and construction leadership roles with significant tenure at well-managed companies and evidence of success.
The ideal candidate will have a significant portion of their experience focused on medium to large format retail, including both “shell” and turnkey project experience.
5 years’ leadership/management experience with a strong propensity for team building, coaching and mentoring
Proven ability to cultivate business relationships
Ability to manage competing priorities effectively in a team-oriented environment
Ability to quickly make decisions under circumstances with little information provided
Ability to plan and manage at a tactical and operational level while still maintaining a hands-on, “get it done” approach
Demonstrated ability to build teams and to recruit, motivate, develop, and retain staff
Excellent communication, presentation, organization, and execution skills
Strong governance and risk management skills
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.
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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.