About the role
Reporting to the Manager, ESG Strategy & Integration, this role plays a central part in delivering Canadian Tire Corporation’s ESG priorities, with a primary focus on enterprise ESG reporting, ratings, and assistance preparing Board-level materials.
The Associate Manager will support the execution of ESG initiatives across the organization, ensuring that all outputs are accurate, consistent, and aligned with internal and external expectations. This role requires a high degree of ownership and attention to detail, with responsibility for coordinating complex deliverables and maintaining quality across multiple workstreams.
The successful candidate will work closely with cross-functional partners and senior stakeholders to support the execution of key ESG commitments and reporting processes.
What you’ll do
Working collaboratively across the organization, this role will:
- Support the execution of ESG priorities and initiatives across business units by tracking progress, identifying gaps, and ensuring alignment across stakeholders
- Support the development of ESG content for Board and executive materials, ensuring a high degree of accuracy, consistency, and clarity across all outputs
- Lead end-to-end delivery of the annual ESG Report, including stakeholder coordination, content development, and rigorous quality assurance
- Own ESG ratings and rankings submissions, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and alignment with external methodologies
- Support the development and maintenance of ESG metrics, KPIs, and related data processes, with a strong emphasis on data quality, consistency, and audit-readiness
- Monitor ESG trends, regulatory developments, and peer practices, and support the translation of insights into practical implications for the business
- Act as a partner to business teams to support the adoption of ESG priorities within their respective areas
- Support on other ESG-related projects, as appropriate
What success looks like
- ESG Report delivered on time with high quality and strong stakeholder alignment
- Board and executive ESG materials are consistently well researched, accurate, clear, and decision-ready
- ESG ratings submissions are completed with a high degree of precision and minimal rework
- ESG data and tracking processes are reliable, consistent, and continuously improving
- Strong working relationships established with key cross-functional partners across the organization
What you bring
- 5–10 years of relevant corporate experience
- Experience in ESG / sustainability / CSR, with a focus on reporting, disclosures, and/or data management
- Experience supporting ESG disclosures and familiarity with key frameworks (e.g., SASB, ISSB, etc.) considered an asset
- Strong experience working with data, metrics, or reporting processes, with a demonstrated commitment to accuracy and quality control
- Exceptional attention to detail and a track record of producing accurate, high-quality, and stakeholder-ready work
- Strong writing, editing, and presentation skills; experience preparing materials for senior leadership is an asset
- Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver high-quality outputs under tight timelines
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to coordinate across functions and move work forward
- Comfort working in an evolving environment with a high degree of ownership and accountability
- Strong analytical and research capabilities
- Understanding of current ESG-related regulatory frameworks is an asset
- Knowledge of ESG ratings and rankings methodologies, as well as greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting and emissions concepts is an asset
- Experience in the retail industry is an asset
Our typical hiring range is between $64,000.00 - $106,000.00 CAD Annual. Salary decisions are also dependent on other factors such as your experience, job-related knowledge, skills and competencies, market location, industry benchmarks, internal equity and other role-specific requirements.
This posting represents an existing vacancy within our organization.
We may use artificial intelligence tools as part of our recruitment process to assist in the initial screening of resumes. All hiring decisions, including candidate evaluation, selection, and disposition, are made by human recruiters.
About Us
Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited (“CTC”) is one of Canada’s most admired and trusted companies. With more than 90 Owned Brands, over 1,600 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.
