Top Benefits
About the role
Canadian Tire Corporation is seeking a Senior Writer to join its Corporate Communications team. The successful candidate will be a seasoned writer with experience as a published journalist or professional ghostwriter, skilled at crafting narratives that educate, inspire, and entertain in an authentic and consistent voice.
What You’ll Do
- Articulate CTC’s True North strategy through compelling communications that educate, inspire, and entertain stakeholders.
- Develop engaging speeches, scripts, report letters, social media posts, and other corporate communications that authentically capture the voice of CTC’s executive leaders.
- Lead the end-to-end research, writing, and delivery of communications by collaborating with senior leaders, subject matter experts, and teams across CTC.
- Translate complex information into digestible narratives.
- Support the development of media materials, including key messages, FAQs, and spokesperson briefings, as needed.
- Review and edit communications materials to ensure consistency, clarity, and precision.
- Be a collaborative team player who can work independently to deliver exceptional quality work, with meticulous attention to detail, under tight timelines.
- Manage and coach one senior direct report.
What You Bring
- 10+ years of experience in journalism or corporate communications; professional writing experience is required, such as being a published journalist or ghostwriter.
- Post-secondary education in Journalism, Political Science, Communications/Public Relations, or a related liberal arts/humanities degree.
- Exceptional writing skills, including the ability to craft a compelling narrative and authentically capture voice.
- Demonstrated track record in working with others and ability to interact effectively with executive leadership; experience working in a corporate environment and/or directly with executive leadership is considered an asset.
- Impeccable command of grammar, punctuation, and style, with the ability to edit for clarity, consistency, and tone.
- Ability to balance multiple priorities and deliver materials on time in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment.
- A creative, continuous learner who welcomes and offers candid feedback.
- Flexibility to work evenings and weekends as required on occasion to support business needs.
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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 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.
About Canadian Tire Corporation, Ltd.
Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited ("CTC") is one of Canada's most admired and trusted companies. With world-class owned brands and exciting market-leading merchandising strategies, we are continually innovating with purpose: to be there for Canadians from coast-to-coast.
We are a group of companies that includes a retail segment, a financial services division and CT REIT. Our retail business is led by Canadian Tire, which was founded in 1922 and provides Canadians with products for life in Canada across its Living, Playing, Fixing, Automotive and Seasonal & Gardening categories. Party City, PartSource and Gas+ are key parts of the Canadian Tire network. Our retail segment also includes Mark's, a leading source for casual and industrial wear, Pro Hockey Life, a hockey speciality store catering to elite athletes, and SportChek, Hockey Experts, Sports Experts, and Atmosphere, which offer the best active wear brands. Our 1,700 retail and gasoline outlets are supported and strengthened by our Financial Services division and the tens of thousands of people employed across the country by our Company, local Dealers, franchisees and petroleum retailers. In addition, CTC owns and operates Helly Hansen, a leading technical outdoor brand based in Oslo, Norway.
CTC is an integral part of the communities in which we operate and our legacy of community support, through national and local programs, is initiated and executed by our Corporation, Dealers, franchisees, store operators and employees. Since 2005, our Canadian Tire Jumpstart Charities has been helping kids overcome financial and accessibility barriers to sport and recreation in an effort to provide inclusive play for all kids of all abilities.
For more information, visit corp.canadiantire.ca.
Top Benefits
About the role
Canadian Tire Corporation is seeking a Senior Writer to join its Corporate Communications team. The successful candidate will be a seasoned writer with experience as a published journalist or professional ghostwriter, skilled at crafting narratives that educate, inspire, and entertain in an authentic and consistent voice.
What You’ll Do
- Articulate CTC’s True North strategy through compelling communications that educate, inspire, and entertain stakeholders.
- Develop engaging speeches, scripts, report letters, social media posts, and other corporate communications that authentically capture the voice of CTC’s executive leaders.
- Lead the end-to-end research, writing, and delivery of communications by collaborating with senior leaders, subject matter experts, and teams across CTC.
- Translate complex information into digestible narratives.
- Support the development of media materials, including key messages, FAQs, and spokesperson briefings, as needed.
- Review and edit communications materials to ensure consistency, clarity, and precision.
- Be a collaborative team player who can work independently to deliver exceptional quality work, with meticulous attention to detail, under tight timelines.
- Manage and coach one senior direct report.
What You Bring
- 10+ years of experience in journalism or corporate communications; professional writing experience is required, such as being a published journalist or ghostwriter.
- Post-secondary education in Journalism, Political Science, Communications/Public Relations, or a related liberal arts/humanities degree.
- Exceptional writing skills, including the ability to craft a compelling narrative and authentically capture voice.
- Demonstrated track record in working with others and ability to interact effectively with executive leadership; experience working in a corporate environment and/or directly with executive leadership is considered an asset.
- Impeccable command of grammar, punctuation, and style, with the ability to edit for clarity, consistency, and tone.
- Ability to balance multiple priorities and deliver materials on time in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment.
- A creative, continuous learner who welcomes and offers candid feedback.
- Flexibility to work evenings and weekends as required on occasion to support business needs.
#LI-AG2
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.
About Canadian Tire Corporation, Ltd.
Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited ("CTC") is one of Canada's most admired and trusted companies. With world-class owned brands and exciting market-leading merchandising strategies, we are continually innovating with purpose: to be there for Canadians from coast-to-coast.
We are a group of companies that includes a retail segment, a financial services division and CT REIT. Our retail business is led by Canadian Tire, which was founded in 1922 and provides Canadians with products for life in Canada across its Living, Playing, Fixing, Automotive and Seasonal & Gardening categories. Party City, PartSource and Gas+ are key parts of the Canadian Tire network. Our retail segment also includes Mark's, a leading source for casual and industrial wear, Pro Hockey Life, a hockey speciality store catering to elite athletes, and SportChek, Hockey Experts, Sports Experts, and Atmosphere, which offer the best active wear brands. Our 1,700 retail and gasoline outlets are supported and strengthened by our Financial Services division and the tens of thousands of people employed across the country by our Company, local Dealers, franchisees and petroleum retailers. In addition, CTC owns and operates Helly Hansen, a leading technical outdoor brand based in Oslo, Norway.
CTC is an integral part of the communities in which we operate and our legacy of community support, through national and local programs, is initiated and executed by our Corporation, Dealers, franchisees, store operators and employees. Since 2005, our Canadian Tire Jumpstart Charities has been helping kids overcome financial and accessibility barriers to sport and recreation in an effort to provide inclusive play for all kids of all abilities.
For more information, visit corp.canadiantire.ca.