Specialist, Jumpstart Brand and Fundraising

What You’ll Do

Are you passionate about youth sports and harnessing the power of brand to drive meaningful impact? Are you excited about the idea of dynamic environments where creativity meets purpose? If so, we invite you to join Canadian Tire Corporation, where you will be a key team member of our Brand Marketing and Fundraising team in support of Canadian Tire Jumpstart Charities. As a specialist, you'll have the opportunity to develop sport brand management skills while also being accountable for driving revenues across a variety of audiences including our customers, employees and vendors across our family of retail brands.

• Act as Jumpstart Brand Steward by overseeing the usage and distribution of omnichannel sales/marketing materials
• Support integration of Jumpstart across CTC’s retail banners including Jumpstart Month, Employees for Jumpstart, and always-on POS campaigns
• Support a variety of stakeholders to meet fundraising goals on behalf of the charity and execute signature retail store level campaigns and corporate events
• Work collaboratively with internal cross-functional teams including Events, Communications, Merchandising, and Store Operations
• Track budgets, estimates, invoices and monthly planning
• Other responsibilities as required based on evolving business need

What You Bring

• Post-secondary education in business, marketing, sports, or communications
• 3+ years work experience, ideally within brand management, sport marketing/sponsorships, event management, and/or fundraising
• Confident and effective communicator, proficient writing and speaking ability
• Knowledge of Canadian sport landscape (grassroots through professional)
• Detail oriented, comfortable with ambiguity and fast paced environments, driven to achieve targets

Hybrid

We value flexibility. We have adopted a hybrid work model whereby employees use a combination of working in office and virtually in service of outcomes. Each leader is empowered to decide what work is best achieved in person based on the unique needs of their team.

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.