Associate Project Manager, Infrastructure

Canadian Tire Corporation•Brampton, ON

13d•CA$64,000 - CA$106,000•Onsite

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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.
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.

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of IT infrastructure projects is considered an asset.
Knowledge of Confluence, Lucid, Delivery Central, MS Project, and Planview is desired.

Responsibilities

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.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits and retirement programs
Performance incentives
Continuing Education Programs
Other perks to support your well-being
Career growth opportunities
Product discounts
Broadband
Store discounts
Supported learning through our Triangle Learning Academy
Canadian Tire Profit Sharing
Retirement and savings programs for eligible employees
Mental health benefits in the amount of $5,000 per year for benefits-eligible employees and their families
Total well-being, and mental health tools and resources for all employees