Avp, Design

**What You’ll Do**

This position has three primary areas of focus - a) lead the retail design and project delivery teams working with real estate development, senior business leaders and project stakeholders ensuring that project delivery meets and conforms to business capital investment requirements, b) developing and implementing innovative store design that enhances the customer experience and contributes to sales growth whilst at the same time creating, maintaining and communicating prototype standards that look to minimize construction and operating costs, and c) develop creative, cost effective fixturing solutions and ensure their timely procurement and installation in support of the business unit’s objectives.

**Construction Standards and Retail Design and Innovation**
- Leading the team to create innovative, cost effective and sustainable store designs that enhance the customer experience, contribute to sales growth and meet company strategic goals.
- Understanding of retail design trends and construction innovations
- Effective communication of design related risks
- Ensure that all drawings and specifications for Mark’s and Sport Chek are coordinated and reduce risk
- Set specific performance targets related to value engineering and sustainability
- Oversee contract administration role to ensure compliance with audit procedures
- Liaise with prototype team to ensure inclusion in the consultant and contractors contracts

**Procurement and Fixture Design**
- Refine a consistent retail fixturing environment nationwide for Mark’s and Sport Chek with a focus on developing department standards, optimizing value for money, life cycle and design quality.
- Participate in high level vendor relationships to ensure company standardizations and processes are in place
- Manage the allocated capital budgets
- Build a collaborative process for future fixture procurement development, maximize fixture stock use and excess in store fixtures.

**Construction and Project Management**
- Nationally lead the project execution team, delivering consistently on time, budget and to quality requirements.
- Communicate with internal and external stakeholders
- Managing the due diligence phase for potential projects
- Working with the estimating team to produce estimates for projects
- Oversee the vendor management and tendering process, to ensure compliance with audit procedures
- Seek opportunity for value optimization throughout the project life cycle
- Source and manage project delivery resources, both internal and external, to ensure best in class project management.
- Ensure Lucernex (our project management software) is accurate and up to date
- Coaching and mentoring direct reports

**What You Bring**
- Minimum of 12 years’ experience in retail design and construction leadership roles with significant tenure at well-managed companies and evidence of success.
- 5 years’ leadership/management experience with a strong propensity for team building, coaching and mentoring
- Proven ability to cultivate business relationships
- Ability to manage competing priorities effectively in a team-oriented environment
- Ability to quickly make decisions under circumstances with little information provided
- Ability to plan and manage at a tactical and operational level while still maintaining a hands-on, “get it done” approach
- Demonstrated ability to build teams and to recruit, motivate, develop, and retain staff
- Excellent communication, presentation, organization, and execution skills
- Strong governance and risk management skills

**Hybrid**

At Canadian Tire we work flexibility embracing ‘Hybrid’ whereby individuals utilize a combination of working at a CTC campus and or virtually in service of outcomes. Determined by managers, decisions around work location will be made based on business and team needs and grounded in a desire to support individual well-being and personal needs. Our goal is to empower teams and individuals to make the right decisions for them, and we expect that to look different for everyone.

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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 to