Top Benefits
About the role
What You'll Do The Product Development (Home & Style) team’s mandate is to help build the equity of CTR’s Retail Brands by improving the design and experience associated with our owned brand offerings. The Product Developer’s role is to support the Product Development Manager in bringing products to market, which deliver a consistent, authentic, and customer-driven product experience through our retail brands.
- Product Development Support: Assist the team in the development of Christmas products year-round, supporting throughout all development stages.
- Operational Assistance: Aid the product development team with core tasks, including maintaining the product lifecycle through the PLM system, from initial setup to updates throughout the development process.
- Sample Management: Oversee receipt, tracking, and management of product and packaging samples. Coordinate shipments to vendors, cross-functional teams, and third-party suppliers; manage sample clean-up as needed.
- Research and Trend Analysis: Collect business and industry data, participate in assortment analysis, and conduct trend and product research.
- Template and Tracker Maintenance: Maintain product development templates and trackers across all categories, including product lineboards, sample/development Excel trackers, quality control tracking, tech-pack templates, milestone documents, etc.
- Design Support: Provide assistance with product specifications, CAD/design (e.g., 3-D renderings), design boards, spec packages, tech packs, recolors, etc., as needed.
- Collaboration on Marketing Initiatives: Collaborate on photoshoot direction, packaging execution, marketing materials, and other promotional activities. Work with cross-functional teams to ensure consistent brand representation across all customer-facing platforms.
- Team Initiative: Actively support and promote the initiatives of the Product Development team.
What You Bring
- Requirement: Passionate about home décor and the holidays. Strong knowledge of retail and relevant brands is an asset.
- Experience: 1-3 years in a related design field.
- Education: Completion of a College or University program in a Design Discipline, with a background in Product, Fashion, Home/Interiors, or Industrial Design.
- Portfolio: A design portfolio is required (please include a link with your resume).
- Skills: Proficient in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, 3-D rendering programs, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Attributes: Highly organized and detail-oriented; able to manage multiple projects and tasks simultaneously.
- Collaboration: Ability to work both collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders and independently as needed.
- Location: Don Mills & Eglinton Avenue, in-person Monday to Thursday. Occasional travel to Yonge & Eglinton.
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
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
What You'll Do The Product Development (Home & Style) team’s mandate is to help build the equity of CTR’s Retail Brands by improving the design and experience associated with our owned brand offerings. The Product Developer’s role is to support the Product Development Manager in bringing products to market, which deliver a consistent, authentic, and customer-driven product experience through our retail brands.
- Product Development Support: Assist the team in the development of Christmas products year-round, supporting throughout all development stages.
- Operational Assistance: Aid the product development team with core tasks, including maintaining the product lifecycle through the PLM system, from initial setup to updates throughout the development process.
- Sample Management: Oversee receipt, tracking, and management of product and packaging samples. Coordinate shipments to vendors, cross-functional teams, and third-party suppliers; manage sample clean-up as needed.
- Research and Trend Analysis: Collect business and industry data, participate in assortment analysis, and conduct trend and product research.
- Template and Tracker Maintenance: Maintain product development templates and trackers across all categories, including product lineboards, sample/development Excel trackers, quality control tracking, tech-pack templates, milestone documents, etc.
- Design Support: Provide assistance with product specifications, CAD/design (e.g., 3-D renderings), design boards, spec packages, tech packs, recolors, etc., as needed.
- Collaboration on Marketing Initiatives: Collaborate on photoshoot direction, packaging execution, marketing materials, and other promotional activities. Work with cross-functional teams to ensure consistent brand representation across all customer-facing platforms.
- Team Initiative: Actively support and promote the initiatives of the Product Development team.
What You Bring
- Requirement: Passionate about home décor and the holidays. Strong knowledge of retail and relevant brands is an asset.
- Experience: 1-3 years in a related design field.
- Education: Completion of a College or University program in a Design Discipline, with a background in Product, Fashion, Home/Interiors, or Industrial Design.
- Portfolio: A design portfolio is required (please include a link with your resume).
- Skills: Proficient in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, 3-D rendering programs, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Attributes: Highly organized and detail-oriented; able to manage multiple projects and tasks simultaneously.
- Collaboration: Ability to work both collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders and independently as needed.
- Location: Don Mills & Eglinton Avenue, in-person Monday to Thursday. Occasional travel to Yonge & Eglinton.
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
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.