What you'll do As Canadian Tire Corporation continues on our transformative growth strategy with customers at the core, the Strategy team plays an important role in the Transformation Management Office (TMO) bringing that vision to life. This new role is critical to achieving our organizational transformation ambitions and True North strategic objectives. It provides an exciting opportunity for a talented individual with intellectual curiosity, detail orientation, executive communication skills, and a strength in business case development to be on the forefront of the next stage of CTC’s evolution. Reporting to the AVP, Strategic Development, the Senior Consultant, Strategic Development & Operations will be responsible for supporting new opportunity intake and early-stage validation, foundational strategic initiatives, and executive integration operations. Support New Opportunity Intake and Early Stage Validation + Support opportunity intake processes, including screening and initial framing of opportunities. + Conduct data analysis and research synthesis to define concepts. + Analyze size of prize and determine initial opportunity attractiveness. + Gather data and validate assumptions from the business to develop financial models and business cases to inform go/no-go decisions. + Develop materials to drive senior decision-making and prioritization. Support True North Strategic Initiatives with Ongoing Incubation and Execution + Provide financial and data analysis, research, and executive-level materials preparation for initiative incubation and execution. + Cultivate strong relationships with cross-functional teams, external vendors, and consultants to develop and execute strategic initiatives. + Offer project management support including managing milestones and deliverables, identifying issues, tracking progress, and documentation. Support Executive Integration Operations + Build and maintain strong cross-functional working relationships to facilitate executive integration across the enterprise. + Manage the quarterly process, including gathering and synthesizing information, supporting the preparation of Executive and Board documents, and providing detailed review. + Assist with Board management tasks such as managing dates and deliverables, tracking follow-up items, providing detailed reviews, and coordinating with Legal for timely material delivery. + Conduct research and gather inputs for meeting preparation, stakeholder alignment, and executive context setting; synthesize information into executive-level presentations and memos. + Support key strategic projects/ad-hoc requests on behalf of senior leadership while working with cross-functional groups. + Prepare materials for executive and Board level forums by conducting supporting research and content synthesis with input from relevant stakeholders. What you bring + 5+ years of professional work experience in strategy development, initiative assessment, consulting or related field. + Experience in the retail sector + University degree in commerce, business administration or a related discipline. + Exceptional organizational and project management skills with a strong attention to detail. + Extremely strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate complex information in an executive format and highly proficient in PPT + Strong financial and data analysis skills, to support in the development of business cases and initiative assessments + Experience interfacing with all levels within an organization including Senior Executives, and a proven ability to build productive business relationships both internally and externally. #LI-GT1 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.