Job Description

What you will do

The Associate Manager, Fixture Procurement serves as the Manager's right hand, providing operational oversight, cross-functional coordination, and enterprise-level reporting across all banners. This role does not own specific procurement processes (e.g., Line Review or Rollouts) but ensures they are executed effectively by Leads, Specialists, Analysts, and Coordinators. The Associate Manager consolidates reporting, manages escalations, and collaborates with the Manager on strategic vendor management, contract compliance, and enterprise procurement objectives.


Key Responsibilities


Operational Leadership & Escalations

Provide daily oversight of procurement operations across banners, ensuring consistency and compliance with procurement processes. Act as the first escalation point for vendor, store, or cross-functional issues, resolving conflicts and enabling Leads to focus on execution. Partner with the Manager on strategic procurement initiatives, enterprise savings targets, and process improvements.

Cross-Banner & Stakeholder Coordination

Coordinate activities across Leads, Specialists, and Analysts to ensure procurement timelines and objectives are met. Facilitate cross-functional meetings with Merchandising, Store Design, Construction, Logistics, and Finance to resolve issues and align deliverables. Support enterprise programs by ensuring procurement alignment across banners.

Reporting & Analysis

Consolidate reporting from Leads and Analysts into executive-level summaries for the Manager and Senior Leadership. Monitor procurement performance at the enterprise level, highlighting risks, variances, and savings opportunities. Provide insights to support budgeting, forecasting, and capital/operational planning.

Strategic Vendor Support

Collaborate with the Manager on strategic vendor management (contracts, escalations, enterprise alignment). Participate in vendor meetings to represent procurement at the enterprise level, focusing on alignment and accountability.

What you bring:

Atleast 5 years of procurement/supply chain experience with increasing responsibility. Strong knowledge of procurement processes, contracts, and vendor management. Excellent stakeholder management and cross-functional coordination skills. Strong understanding of the procurement process and FF&E lifecycle. Proven experience in procurement or supply chain management within Retail/design industry. Experience consolidating reporting and presenting to senior leadership. Strong problem-solving and escalation management abilities. Ability to work in a fast-paced, multi-project retail environment.

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.

Accommodations

We stand firm in our Core Value that inclusion is a must. We welcome and encourage candidates from equity-seeking groups such as people who identify as racialized, Indigenous, 2SLGBTQIA+, women, people with disabilities, and beyond. Should you require any accommodation in applying for this role, or throughout the interview process, please make them known when contacted and we will work with you to help meet your needs.