Canadian Tire

Sr ITSM Service Portfolio Specialist

Canadian Tire$64K — $106K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in IT service portfolio management, service design, or configuration management roles
  • ITIL certification (Foundation level minimum; Service Design experience preferred)
  • Strong understanding of Common Service Data Model (CSDM) and CMDB best practices
  • Experience with ServiceNow including CMDB, Discovery, and Service Mapping
  • Demonstrated governance and oversight experience across teams and service providers
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a focus on data quality
  • Excellent communication skills for engaging diverse stakeholders

Responsibilities

  • Lead design and implementation of service portfolios per CSDM v5 best practices
  • Ensure services data quality, compliance, and completeness
  • Define and improve service management policies and controls
  • Manage service lifecycle from inception to retirement
  • Engage stakeholders to evolve services for ITSM and Cyber Security
  • Identify automation opportunities in Enterprise Technology Lifecycle processes
  • Act as governance point for service portfolio activities delivered by managed service providers

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits and retirement programs
  • Performance incentives and continuing education programs
  • Well-being support perks
  • Opportunity for career growth and product discounts
Full Job Description
What You'll Do:

The Sr. ITSM Service Integration Specialist plays a critical role in ensuring the integrity, reliability, and strategic value of CTC's IT Service Management ecosystem. This role is accountable for leading the design, governance, accuracy, and continuous improvement of CTC's enterprise Service Portfolio.

Working within the ITSM Service Integration function, this role acts as a key bridge between application and service owners and operational teams managing and consuming services portfolio data and relationships. This role is also accountable for enterprise governance of service portfolios, ensuring that configuration data, service relationships, and platform processes are aligned to organizational standards, audit requirements, and business outcomes.

This role goes beyond operational support - it is responsible for driving data quality, enforcing governance, and enabling informed decision-making through a well-structured and trusted CMDB.

Service Portfolio Governance & Data Integrity
  • Lead the design and implementation of Service Portfolios in compliance with Common Service Data Model (CSDM) v5 best practices
  • Provide oversight and accountability for services data quality, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and compliance with enterprise standards
  • Define, enforce, and continuously improve service management policies, procedures, and control frameworks
  • Lead and contribute to data certification, audit readiness, and compliance activities related to services data and relationships


Service Portfolio Lifecycle Management
  • Lead CTC's Service Design practice to manage services through inception, implementation, operations and retirement
  • Design service portfolios to align with Common Service Data Model (CSDM) standard and enterprise service portfolio requirements
  • Engage key stakeholders and process participants to inform evolution of services that support ITSM, Cyber Security, GRC and Tech Resiliency outcomes
  • Support operational sustainment and oversight of service portfolio data quality and accuracy
  • Ensure focus on continuous improvement of service portfolio lifecycle processes


Support Enterprise Technology Lifecycle Management via Integration and automation
  • Guide implementation of Enterprise Technology Lifecycle processes to support strategic application and technology roadmap planning
  • Identify opportunities replace manual processes with integrations and automation
  • Participate in design and oversight of processes and integrations to ensure accurate and trustworthy service configuration data
  • Enable and guide technology lifecycle automations in ITSM processes (i.e. change, request) and IT Asset management processes (HAM/SAM)
  • Partner with internal teams and vendor partners to address data gaps, improve coverage, and enhance automation and AI


Operational Oversight & Managed Services Governance
  • Act as a governance and escalation point for service portfolio and CMDB activities delivered by managed service providers
  • Ensure adherence to SLAs, data quality standards, and compliance expectations through regular reviews and performance tracking
  • Provide oversight into platform activities (e.g., patching, cloning, updates) to ensure proper coordination, communication, and risk management


Continuous Improvement & Strategic Contribution
  • Identify data quality gaps and process improvement opportunities, driving initiatives to enhance service portfolio and CMDB maturity and value
  • Contribute to the evolution of service portfolio and CMDB strategy, roadmap, and maturity model aligned to organizational priorities
  • Support development of KPIs, dashboards and analytics that enable insights to drive business impact


Stakeholder Engagement & Communication
  • Partner with service owners, application teams, architecture, and governance functions to ensure clear ownership and accountability of service and configuration data
  • Facilitate regular reviews and governance forums to validate data accuracy and reinforce accountability
  • Translate technical service and CMDB concepts into clear, business-friendly insights for leadership and stakeholders


What You Bring:
  • 5+ years of experience in IT service portfolio management, service design or configuration management/CMDB related roles
  • ITIL certification (Foundation minimum; Service Design experience considered an asset)
  • Strong understanding of CSDM (v5 preferred), CMDB and configuration management best practices
  • Experience working with ServiceNow (CMDB, Discovery, Service Mapping, integrations preferred)
  • Demonstrated ability to operate in a governance/oversight role across internal teams and managed service providers
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, and data quality management skills
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders


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 - $106,000
Our typical hiring range is between $64,000 and $85,000. 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.

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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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