Product Development Consultant

4 months ago

Toronto, Canada Canadian Tire Corporation Full time

**What you’ll **do**

The Product Development (Automotive, Tools, Yard and Home) team’s mandate is to help build the equity of CTR’s Retail Brands by improving the design and experience associated with our private-label branded 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.

The PDC Engineering role will include competitive product analyses, feature and product specifications, tear
- downs, and product testing on a variety of tool categories including: Automotive Tools, Pressure Washers, Power Stations, etc. for Motomaster, Simoniz etc.
- Design and develop products for key categories from concept to execution. Lead and execute on the engineering and development deliverables (Feature and product specifications, product tear-downs, product testing)
- Under the guidance of the Product Development manager, create product design briefs & technical specification packages that captures the customer centric CTQ (Critical to Quality) and CTE (Critical to Experience) deliverables
- Generate product specifications and recommendations that align with brand and delivers on the innovation needs for the category business
- Contribute to product recommendations by completing comp shops, and presents findings to the PD Manager and relevant business partners
- Work closely with the cross-functional teams at key touch points to execute the design work
- Travel (Domestic and International) when appropriate to various vendor partners to participate in on
- site engineering and manufacturing builds, tooling and design reviews
- Integrate with Global Sourcing, the Pacific Rim Office, and Line Review teams to ensure a tight integration of the Brand Development processes with the line review processes

**What you bring**
- We are looking for individuals who are:

- Creative and courageous, with the ability to manage in an environment of change and ambiguity to help us take bold, strategic moves in this rapidly evolving retail environment
- Action oriented, and comfortable taking calculated risks to better serve our customers and business
- Outcome focused, critical thinkers with the ability to analyze and visualize, to ensure continuous improvement across our entire business
- Collaborative team players with superior influencing skills, who build relationships easily across various stakeholder groups to move initiatives forward

If you’re curious, ready to take on new challenges and open to doing things differently to help us evolve rapidly, then this is definitely the place to be.
- Undergraduate degree in Engineering with 2-4 years of experience in either product development or manufacturing
- Minimum 2 years of experiences of the following industries preferred - Automotive OEM or aftermarket parts, consumer hard goods including Toys, Tools, or Home appliances
- Minimum 2 years of experience in human centered design approach and familiarity in Design Research Methodologies.
- Outstanding communicator able to clearly translate strategy into design specs and direction
- Ability to succeed with mínimal supervision where priorities may shift due to changing business needs
- Experience with usability testing, ethnographic research, and product development tools
- Familiarity of manufacturing processes for hard lines goods
- Customer focused and action oriented
- Highly organized and detail oriented, able to tackle multiple projects with varying scope and project teams

**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 off

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