Product Development Consultant

2 weeks ago


Toronto, Ontario, Canada Canadian Tire Corporation Full time
**What you'll do**

The Product Development (Home & Style) team's mandate is to help build the equity of CTR's Retail Brands by improving the design and experience associated with our owned brand offerings. The Product Development Consultant's role is to support the Product Development Manager in building products that help deliver a consistent, authentic, and customer-driven product experience through our retail brands.
- Under the guidance of the Product Development Manager, creates design and technical specification for sourcing packages including any relevant product sketches and details per dimensions, colour, material and pattern detail, packaging and trim info, etc.
- Perform research on key trends and innovation considering elements such as form, functionality, materials, and colour palettes, including user experience and identifying solutions for customer pain points.
- Provide input and analysis where needed when working through the counter-sample and approval process; communicates to vendors any relevant changes.
- Maintain detailed product tracking spreadsheets; review and assess a high volume of samples and quotes; track progress and approvals at each stage in the development process.
- Work closely with the cross-functional teams at key touch points to execute design direction.
- Help to provide art direction for packaging, photography, and marketing, etc. as needed, and work with cross-functional teams to ensure consistent presentation of the brand in all consumer-facing vehicles.
- Create presentation boards and participate in presentations as required, to help guide both cross-functional teams and consumer-facing activity incorporating colour, material, pattern, and trend direction as set by the Product Development Manager.

**What you bring**
- Undergraduate degree in a Design Discipline with minimum 3-5 years product development experience
- Excellent Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Outlook, and Excel skills. Ability to produce technical drawings and Solid works skills are beneficial.
- Experience with usability testing, ethnographic research, design research methodologies and product development tools
- Familiarity of basic manufacturing processes of various materials - weaving, printing, molds, etc.
- Hands-on ability to create product and packaging mock-ups, physically build and dissemble product samples to analyze and problem solve.
- Outstanding communicator able to clearly translate strategy into design specs and/or trend, style, and colour direction.

**Hybrid**

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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**À propos de nous**

La Société Canadian Tire Limitée (Société) est l'une des entreprises les plus admirées et les plus respectées au Canada. Nous disposons de plus de 90 marques détenues, 1 700 détaillants, des services financiers, des capacités exemplaires en matière de commerce électronique et des stratégies de marchandisage passionnantes à la fine pointe du marché. Nous avons de grands rêves et nous travaillons ensemble pour innover de manière ciblée pour nos clients à tous les niveaux de nos activités, en investissant dans de nouvelles technologies et de nouveaux produits et en redoublant de talent pour faire avancer l'entreprise. Nous offrons des salaires concurrentiels aux employés de la Société Canadian Tire, ainsi que des rabais en magasin, des programmes d'apprentissage offerts par l'entremise de l'Académie apprentissage Triangle, des programmes de participation aux bénéfices de Canadian Tire et des régimes de retraite et d'épargne pour les employés admissibles. Dans le cadre de notre programme amélioré d'avantages sociaux flexibles, nous offrons des avantages en matière de santé mentale et de bien-être total d'un montant de 5 000 $ par année aux employés admissibles et à leur famille, ainsi que des outils et des ressources en matière de santé mentale pour tous les employés. Joignez-vous à nous pour contribuer à améliorer la vie au Canada en incarnant et en mettant en pratique nos valeurs fondamentales : nous sommes des innovateurs et des entrepreneurs dans l'âme, les résultats nous motivent, l'inclusion est une nécessité, nous sommes plus forts ensemble et nous assumons notre responsabilité personnelle. C'est un moment particulièrement excitant pour vous joindre à la Société Canadian Tire et à sa famille d'entreprises, où les possibilités de carrière sont très variées Joignez-vous à nous, il y a une place pour vous ici

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