Avp, Sports

**What you’ll do**

The Associate Vice President, Sport and Pro Hockey Life is a unique role as it leads across the two CTC banners: Pro Hockey Life specialty, corporately owned banner with 16 stores, next year growing to 20 stores and the Sports portfolio of the CTR across 500 stores which is managed in partnership with Dealers. CTR Sport portfolio incudes 4 LOBs - Hockey, Team Sport, Footwear and Apparel, and Exercise.

The Associate Vice President, Sport and Pro Hockey Lifeis a product focused, results driven, customer centric leader who can champion the development of a best in class assortment and experience for our customers. This leader will need to have strong product knowledge, a proven ability to activate customer data and analytics in strategy development and business management, and an ability to identify, develop and execute new business opportunities through an omni channel approach that will grow our consumer base and maximize financial returns to the business.
- Lead two merchandising teams across 2 different CTC banners: Pro Hockey Life and the CTR
- Manage a team of high performing category managers by providing leadership, coaching and development; ensure entire team is focused on delivering against key priorities.
- Build the best product assortments while leading inventory management discipline for all categories to ensure the team is consistently meeting or exceeding sales, margin, and inventory targets.
- Lead collaboration between Category management teams and cross functional support teams to enable the development and execution of category strategies and programs that are grounded in a deep understanding of industry trends, customer data and market opportunities
- Lead a team to understand opportunities in new markets and provide analysis/recommendations for pursuing them
- Build and manage key relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Lead the annual planning, seasonal planning, assortment management and line review processes within Backyard Living & Seasonal
- Accountabilities include sales and margin growth, establishment and management of line reviews, advertising planning and inventory forecast validation management

**What you bring**
- 10 years of experience in the retail industry; as a buyer, in-store operations, marketing, merchandising, finance or as a consumer-packaged goods vendor; ideally direct category management/merchandising experience
- At least 5 years leadership/management experience with a strong propensity for team building, coaching and mentoring
- Expertise in Hockey category a preference, due to a unique nature of this dual role including managing merchandising portfolio for PHL as a Hockey specialty banner
- Proven ability to develop, manage and motivate a top caliber team around a compelling vision
- Highly effective relationship management skills with a track record of developing, selling and executing programs collaboratively
- Thorough understanding of the business, growth, change management, systems and process management
- Strong financial acumen and strategic mindset
- Superb collaboration, joint problem solving and influencing skills
- Strong track record of driving results and performance transformation
- University degree preferred

**Hybrid**

At Canadian Tire 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 Ca