- Work with the Automotive teams (business, IT, digital) and key stakeholders to understand critical objectives and delivery dates of large-scale projects
- Drive and support execution of Automotive projects, including building and tracking to project plan, facilitating stakeholder communications and delivering to the project milestones and objectives
- Drive execution and manage the overall progress of assigned projects, including managing scope, timelines and deliverables
- Facilitate working sessions with key stakeholders across disciplines, maintain strong relationships
- Maintain project schedule and backlog
- Maintain effective communication for key project stakeholders
- Articulate benefits and risks of key decisions and options to help gain alignment and drive decision making
- Prepare status reporting and write clear, concise and effective communications related to sensitive and complex issues
- Post-secondary education in Business Administration, Engineering, Project Management or related field; Certification/experienced in Agile project delivery an asset
- Minimum of 5+ years' experience, supporting the development and deployment of medium to large sized projects
- Highly organized and detail oriented, able to tackle multiple projects with varying scope
- Highly effective relationship skills with a track record of facilitating conversations with cross-functional teams and leading change
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate, influence and negotiate with colleagues at various levels of the organization
- Strong written and oral presentation skills with demonstrated ability to adjust style and format as required to suit the audience
- Expert proficiency of MS PowerPoint, MS Excel; MS Visio knowledge an asset
- Strong business acumen skills; demonstrated expertise of retail technology, consumer trends, and/or product management
- Core PM competencies: Timeline management Scope management Risk management Conflict resolution and effective mediation and influencing skills Knowledge of Canadian Tire Corporation environment and inter-related business units an asset
Associate Delivery Manager - Toronto, Canada - Canadian Tire Corporation
Description
What you'll do
The Associate Delivery Manager, Automotive will be accountable for the overall delivery of large-scale projects essential to the Automotive business and will work with various stakeholders across CTC – Digital, IT, Dealers and Merchants – to help make choices and meet overall project objectives. As the successful candidate, you will develop an organized approach to projects and structure to optimize alignment of individual and group skills with project tasks and deliverables. Working with key stakeholders, the Manager, Automotive Program Delivery is responsible for maintaining open lines of communication between groups, functional areas, and team members in order to facilitate the seamless, execution of the various organizational initiatives. The Manager provides support in pulling together key individuals across CTC to ensure successful integration of activities between Automotive and the larger CTC organization.
In this role, you'll:
What you bring
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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