Canadian Tire

Associate Project Manager, Infrastructure

Canadian Tire$64K — $106K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3-5 years in project coordination or associate project manager role within IT.
  • Attention to detail and strong organizational skills with a proactive mindset.
  • Understanding of technical product and delivery lifecycle fundamentals; knowledge of IT infrastructure projects is a plus.
  • Basic financial management experience, including budgeting and forecasting support.
  • Familiarity with Agile methodologies, including SAFe, and understanding delivery practices such as Scrum and Kanban.

Responsibilities

  • Enable delivery execution by ensuring coordination and visibility across teams.
  • Support program and initiative-level planning by tracking scope, timelines, and deliverables.
  • Prepare status updates and maintain regular communication with stakeholders and team members.
  • Prepare materials for program governance to ensure adherence to delivery standards.
  • Track and escalate risks and issues, assisting in risk mitigation planning.
  • Monitor delivery progress and report on KPIs and milestones accurately.
  • Maintain delivery artifacts for audit readiness and consistency.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits and retirement programs
  • Performance incentives and continuing education programs
  • Additional perks to support well-being
  • Career growth opportunities and product discounts
Full Job Description
Reporting to our Manager, Delivery, the Associate Project Manager, Infrastructure will support the execution of all projects related to IT infrastructure across the organization. This role will monitor the delivery progress of projects, coordinate communication across senior leaders and key stakeholders, and maintain delivery artifacts.

What you'll do
  • Enable delivery execution by ensuring coordination, visibility, and readiness across squads.
  • Support the development and maintenance of program and initiative-level plans, including scope, timelines, deliverables, and resource tracking.
  • Assist in stakeholder coordination by preparing status updates, gathering inputs, and maintaining regular communication across team members and sponsors.
  • Contribute to program governance by preparing materials for steering committees and delivery forums, and ensuring adherence to established processes.
  • Coordinate and track activities across squads, ensuring alignment on priorities, dependencies, and milestones.
  • Identify, track, and escalate risks, issues, and dependencies, supporting mitigation planning and resolution.
  • Monitor delivery progress against defined plans, ensuring accurate reporting of KPIs, milestones, and status updates.
  • Support change management activities, including updates to scope, schedule, and financials under guidance from Delivery Program Managers.
  • Support updates to scope, schedule, and financial tracking, ensuring changes are accurately captured and communicated under guidance from Delivery Program Managers.
  • Support change management activities, including coordination of delivery and implementation windows to ensure readiness and alignment across teams.
  • Maintain delivery artifacts (plans, RAID logs, status reports) to ensure consistency, accuracy, and audit readiness.
  • Assist in program closure activities, including documentation, reporting, and lessons learned.
  • Operate within established delivery standards, tools, and frameworks to ensure consistency across initiatives.


What you bring
  • 3-5 years of experience in a senior project coordination or associate project manager role within IT.
  • Attention to detail and strong organizational skills along with a proactive mindset is a core requirement.
  • Understanding of technical product and delivery lifecycle fundamentals. Knowledge of IT infrastructure projects is considered an asset.
  • Financial management: Basic budgeting support, assisting with forecasting, accruals, and variance analysis.
  • Scope Management: Supporting definition and tracking of outcomes, MVPs, epics, stories, and milestones.
  • Resource Management: Assisting with resource intake, tracking and coordination across internal and partner teams, ensuring work is appropriately staffed and ready for execution.
  • Risk Management: Identifying and tracking risks/issues, supporting mitigation planning, and escalating where required.
  • Working knowledge of Agile methodologies (including SAFe).
  • Familiarity with Scrum and Kanban delivery practices.
  • Excellent collaboration, teamwork, and communication skills across multiple teams and levels of an organization, along with empathy and emotional intelligence.
  • Working experience with the MS Suite is required, especially Excel and PowerPoint, along with Jira.
  • Knowledge of Confluence, Lucid, Delivery Central, MS Project, and Planview is desired.


We're always looking for great talent! In addition to competitive pay, we offer:
  • Comprehensive benefits and retirement programs
  • Performance incentives, Continuing Education Programs
  • Other perks to support your well-being
  • Career growth opportunities and product discounts


Broadband Salary Range: $64,000.00 - $106,000.00
Salary decisions are also dependent on other factors such as your experience, industry benchmarks, internal equity and other role-specific requirements. For critical roles, the compensation offering will be reviewed to ensure alignment with market rate and conditions and the unique value you bring to the role. #LI-AG2

This posting represents an existing vacancy within our organization.

We may use artificial intelligence tools as part of our recruitment process to assist in the initial screening of resumes. All hiring decisions, including candidate evaluation, selection, and disposition, are made by human recruiters.

About Canadian Tire

Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited is a Canadian retail company which sells a wide range of automotive, hardware, sports and leisure, and home products. Some stores also sell toys and food products. It operates through a network of more than 1,700 retail and gasoline outlets across Canada. The company was founded in 1922 and is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario.
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13,435 employees
Industry
Founded
1922
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