Project Manager, Construction & Store Development in Toronto

Founded in 2020, FIKA’s origin is a lifestyle brand redefining cannabis retail including flagship locations in Toronto’s Union Station and Distillery District. The FIKA Company is the home of 20+ Canadian retail banners, with over 200+ stores across Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, B.C., and Yukon. At FIKA we provide exceptional service in a variety of welcoming, intuitive, and diversified store environments.

We are growing quickly — through new builds, through acquisition, and through a multi-year program to consolidate our banners into a core set. This role exists because that volume has outgrown the people running it.

Reports To: Senior Director, Construction

Location: Greater Toronto Area – hybrid, with travel across the store network

About the Role

We are hiring a Project Manager to take over site execution quickly. The goal is a complete handover of site execution within 90 days. Our hardest projects are not new stores; they are multi-store programs delivered in live trading environments — banner rebrands, concept conversions, renovations, and VM and fixture programs.

What You’ll Own

• Site Capture and Preliminary Design: Walk a site and capture everything a design and a plan require in a single visit: measurements, existing conditions, services, constraints, photographs. Produce preliminary floor plans and fixture layouts in AutoCAD, SketchUp or equivalent.
• Multi-Store Programs and Live-Store Projects: Own rebrands, renovations, concept conversions and VM/fixture programs running across multiple stores at once. Solve the per-store variation problem and plan and sequence work around trading hours.
• New Store Openings: Walk a site and capture everything a design and a plan require in a single visit. Produce preliminary floor plans and fixture layouts.
• Trades and Vendor Management: Source, qualify and manage general contractors, millworkers, signage vendors and trades across every market we operate in. Run tender and award processes.
• Budget and Capital Control: Build and own project budgets from concept estimate to final cost. Track committed versus actual, forecast to complete, and explain every variance.
• Working with the Coordinator: Direct our Project Coordinator on vendor ordering, scheduling, internal notifications, vendor compliance documentation and project tracking.
• Reporting: Produce a weekly project dashboard: status by store, key dates, risks, decisions needed and spend against budget.

Who You Are

• Organized to a fault.
• Direct and field-credible.
• Commercially sharp.
• Calm when it goes sideways.

What You’ll Bring

• 5–8 years managing construction projects end to end, ideally in multi-site retail.
• Ability to produce preliminary floor plans and fixture layouts yourself.
• Proven ability to read, interpret and redline construction drawing sets.
• Experience delivering projects in live, trading retail environments.
• Strong budget discipline.
• Excellent organization and written communication.
• Valid driver’s licence and willingness to travel.
• Post-secondary education in Construction Management, Architectural or Civil/Building Engineering Technology, Interior Design or a related field.

Why you’ll love working here

• Volume and variety: A ~270-store network across six provinces.
• Real ownership: Direct exposure to the executive group.
• A function you help build: You are the first PM in a team that is about to grow.
• Competitive Base & Benefits: Competitive base plus a 15% annual bonus and a vehicle/travel allowance.

The FIKA Company respects the diversity of the people it hires and serves. Inclusion means fostering a workplace in which individual differences are recognized, appreciated, respected, and responded to in ways that fully develop and utilize each person’s talents and strengths.