Product Development Consultant

3 weeks ago

Toronto, 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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**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.

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