• Job Description

  Req#: JR140204

  What You’ll Do

  If you are looking to grow with a dynamic and collaborative team, work with top sport properties, marketing partners, athletes, and help break down barriers to sport, you belong with Sport Partnerships.

  The Specialist, Sport Partnerships will support the team on a variety of initiatives across our family of companies including partner relations, contractual asset fulfillment and tracking, activation programming, event execution and reporting, administrative support, and budget tracking.

  • Provide activation support as required (build work-back plans, track asset usage, facilitate content development, track expenses, prepare briefs and wrap reports)

  • Track KPI’s, including updating databases, budget trackers, and weekly event lists

  • Update project plans, manage project requests, and track progress including budget, timelines and deliverables

  • Support the day-to-day execution of strategic partners by being the information hub for strategy, planning and administration for the Partnership team

  What you bring

  • 3+ years work experience in Marketing/Events/Sports Management/Business/Sponsorship role

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in sports management, sport marketing, business administration, communications and/or event management

  • Experience in retail, brand management, sport property, athlete management and/or games experience (i.e. Olympics) is an asset

  • Passionate about sport from grassroots to high performance

  • Ability to balance multiple priorities, prioritize and deliver programs and tactics on time and on budget in an ambiguous, fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment

  • Comfortable working in a cross-functional teams across multiple banners – both in-person and remotely

  • Strong computer skills, particularly in MS Word, PowerPoint and Excel

  • Exceptional writing and presentation skills

  • Ability to work within a matrixed organization

  • Bilingual ability is an asset but not required (French and English) – speaking, reading, writing

  • Retail experience is an asset

  • Sport marketing/partnership experience is an asset

  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 Canadian Tire Sport Partnerships

  The Sport Partnerships team acts as a Center of Excellence and shared service within Canadian Tire Corporation (CTC), providing deep subject matter expertise in sport – from partnerships, marketing, IP & media rights management and athlete engagement. Through the power of sport this team leads the enterprise strategy for one of the largest sport sponsorship portfolios in Canada that ranges across amateur and professional sport and provides strategic counsel and activation support to CTC’s retail banners to integrate sport across our family of companies. This team is also responsible for leading the award-winning Women In Sport initiative, the first 50/50 commitment by a Canadian brand to create an equitable investment across the sport portfolio by 2026.

  Notable partnerships include: Canadian Olympic Committee, Canadian Paralympic Committee, Canada Games, National Hockey League, Professional Women’s Hockey League, Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment (Toronto Maple Leafs, Toronto Raptors, Toronto FC and the Toronto Marlies), Ottawa Senators, Edmonton Oilers, Calgary Flames, Vancouver Canucks, Montreal Canadiens, Northen Super League, WNBA, Hockey Diversity Alliance and Hockey Equality.

  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 the company

  Canadian Tire Corporation Limited is a Canadian retail company which operates in the automotive, hardware, sports, leisure and housewares sectors.

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