Product Developer

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.