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Reporting to our Manager, Delivery, the Associate Project Manager, Infrastructure will support the execution of all projects related to IT infrastructure across the organization. This role will monitor the delivery progress of projects, coordinate communication across senior leaders and key stakeholders, and maintain delivery artifacts.

What you'll do

• Enable delivery execution by ensuring coordination, visibility, and readiness across squads.

• Support the development and maintenance of program and initiative-level plans, including scope, timelines, deliverables, and resource tracking.

• Assist in stakeholder coordination by preparing status updates, gathering inputs, and maintaining regular communication across team members and sponsors.

• Contribute to program governance by preparing materials for steering committees and delivery forums, and ensuring adherence to established processes.

• Coordinate and track activities across squads, ensuring alignment on priorities, dependencies, and milestones.

• Identify, track, and escalate risks, issues, and dependencies, supporting mitigation planning and resolution.

• Monitor delivery progress against defined plans, ensuring accurate reporting of KPIs, milestones, and status updates.

• Support change management activities, including updates to scope, schedule, and financials under guidance from Delivery Program Managers.

• Support updates to scope, schedule, and financial tracking, ensuring changes are accurately captured and communicated under guidance from Delivery Program Managers.

• Support change management activities, including coordination of delivery and implementation windows to ensure readiness and alignment across teams.

• Maintain delivery artifacts (plans, RAID logs, status reports) to ensure consistency, accuracy, and audit readiness.

• Assist in program closure activities, including documentation, reporting, and lessons learned.

• Operate within established delivery standards, tools, and frameworks to ensure consistency across initiatives.

What you bring

• 3-5 years of experience in a senior project coordination or associate project manager role within IT.

• Attention to detail and strong organizational skills along with a proactive mindset is a core requirement.

• Understanding of technical product and delivery lifecycle fundamentals. Knowledge of IT infrastructure projects is considered an asset.

• Financial management: Basic budgeting support, assisting with forecasting, accruals, and variance analysis.

• Scope Management: Supporting definition and tracking of outcomes, MVPs, epics, stories, and milestones.

• Resource Management: Assisting with resource intake, tracking and coordination across internal and partner teams, ensuring work is appropriately staffed and ready for execution.

• Risk Management: Identifying and tracking risks/issues, supporting mitigation planning, and escalating where required.

• Working knowledge of Agile methodologies (including SAFe).

• Familiarity with Scrum and Kanban delivery practices.

• Excellent collaboration, teamwork, and communication skills across multiple teams and levels of an organization, along with empathy and emotional intelligence.

• Working experience with the MS Suite is required, especially Excel and PowerPoint, along with Jira.

• Knowledge of Confluence, Lucid, Delivery Central, MS Project, and Planview is desired.

We're always looking for great talent! In addition to competitive pay, we offer:

• Comprehensive benefits and retirement programs

• Performance incentives, Continuing Education Programs

• Other perks to support your well-being

• Career growth opportunities and product discounts

Broadband Salary Range:$64,000.00 - $106,000.00
Salary decisions are also dependent on other factors such as your experience, industry benchmarks, internal equity and other role-specific requirements. For critical roles, the compensation offering will be reviewed to ensure alignment with market rate and conditions and the unique value you bring to the role. #LI-AG2

This posting represents an existing vacancy within our organization.

We may use artificial intelligence tools as part of our recruitment process to assist in the initial screening of resumes. All hiring decisions, including candidate evaluation, selection, and disposition, are made by human recruiters.

About Us

Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited ("CTC") is one of Canada's most admired and trusted companies.With more than 90 Owned Brands, over 1,600 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.