Jobs at McCain Foods

Leads McCain’s enterprise AI workforce transformation strategy, focusing on AI adoption, workflow redesign, workforce capability, manager development, culture, responsible AI transparency, and change agility. Partners across HR, Technology, Communications, and business functions to redesign work, build AI fluency, support leaders through role and skill changes, establish practical governance, and measure workforce and adoption outcomes.

Leads global brand strategy, architecture, campaigns, digital brand experiences, brand tracking, marketing budgets, and ROI measurement for McCain’s snacking portfolio. Partners with regional teams and creative agencies to activate campaigns consistently across markets, stewards visual identity and brand governance, and supports reputation management. The role also leads, coaches, and develops a global marketing team while leveraging AI-enabled tools and emerging technologies.

Leads brand-building and integrated marketing communications for North American Foodservice brands. Responsibilities include integrated planning, campaign strategy and execution, agency briefing and management, full-funnel media planning, cross-functional influence, campaign measurement, and marketing effectiveness improvement. The role translates consumer insights into impactful omnichannel programs across paid, owned, earned, social, experiential, shopper, partnership, and creator channels while guiding teams and fostering innovation.

Manages the Loblaw retail account and McCain’s product portfolio, driving sales growth, profitability, customer partnerships, and market share. Responsibilities include developing account and joint business plans, managing trade spend and promotional budgets, conducting negotiations and business reviews, presenting analytics, identifying growth opportunities, coordinating product launches, and partnering with Marketing, Finance, Supply Chain, and Operations on forecasting and execution.

Leads Responsible AI governance and operational oversight across McCain’s AI portfolio. Establishes standards, evaluation methods, risk classifications, stage-gate reviews, testing and red-teaming practices, portfolio reporting, audit readiness, and compliance controls. Partners with AI, Engineering, Risk, Privacy, Architecture, and business stakeholders to ensure AI solutions are safe, effective, transparent, reliable, and scalable. Provides governance leadership, continuous improvement, and people management while maintaining separation from use case intake and prioritization.

Manage strategic Ontario key accounts for McCain’s foodservice business. Responsibilities include developing customer growth plans, driving sales and profitability targets, managing pipelines and complex sales cycles, forecasting, negotiating contracts and pricing, presenting business reviews, maintaining Salesforce records, and coordinating Marketing, Finance, Supply Chain, R&D, and Quality Assurance teams. The role requires 15–20% travel within Ontario and focuses on profitable customer growth and long-term partnerships.

Supports integrated supply chain finance through month-end variance analysis, forecasting, budgeting, standard cost updates, intercompany pricing, cost modeling, and financial reporting. Partners with FP&A, business unit finance, plant operations, and supply chain stakeholders to explain cost performance, identify improvement opportunities, and provide actionable recommendations to finance leadership. The role also contributes to process efficiency and strategic decision support across North America.

Supports enterprise strategy, corporate development, mergers and acquisitions, investment evaluations, and strategic initiatives. Builds financial, valuation, operational, and transaction models; conducts market and competitor research; develops business cases and investment theses; supports diligence, integration planning, and stakeholder coordination. Prepares executive and Board-level presentations and recommendations while partnering with regional teams, functional leaders, and external advisors.

Lead and develop the Forward Deployment Engineer (FDE) practice for McCain's Commercial (Yellow) portfolio. Set capability frameworks, coach and hire FDEs, align resources to business priorities, personally lead select AI engagements, create reusable playbooks, and ensure Responsible AI, security, and governance compliance while partnering with platform, knowledge, and governance teams to drive measurable enterprise AI outcomes.

Lead global SAP S/4HANA and Vistex transformation across Order-to-Cash, Logistics, and Trade Promotion. Define global templates, own solution architecture and integrations, lead program delivery and governance, drive process standardization, enable analytics/AI insights, and advise senior leadership to deliver measurable revenue, cost, and service improvements.

Serve as strategic HR partner to North America Sales: align people strategies with commercial objectives, lead talent management, succession planning, workforce analytics, change initiatives, and complex employee relations while coaching leaders and driving leadership development and organizational effectiveness.

Owns Sustainable Cost Advantage reporting governance, savings reconciliation, variance analysis, leadership dashboards, and program standards. Leads implementation, testing, launch, hypercare, and decommissioning of a new ideation tool by January 2027. Partners with Finance, IT, and regional teams to ensure accurate, consistent, defensible savings reporting, target alignment, P&L connectivity, and prevention of double-counting.

Lead and grow McCain's Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) practice for Manufacturing within the Yellow AI portfolio. Manage hiring, assignments, performance, and development of senior FDEs; set standards, playbooks, and practices; personally lead select AI engagements; partner with platform, engineering, governance, and business leaders to drive adoption, measurable impact, and compliant, responsible AI deployments. Provide executive representation and resolve resource conflicts while embedding with teams for coaching and execution.

Research and evaluate emerging AI and agentic technologies, recommend and support pilots, partner with engineering to scale proven solutions, document findings and assess risks including security, privacy, and Responsible AI, and communicate technical insights to business stakeholders.

Lead design, integration, and continuous improvement of end-to-end enterprise processes for an SAP S/4HANA transformation. Drive cross-functional workshops, As-Is/To-Be analysis, process documentation (BPMN), governance, testing readiness, change management, and measure process performance while coaching team members and partnering with global stakeholders.

The Manager of Digital Manufacturing Applications leads a team to drive strategic direction and operational performance of manufacturing software, ensuring alignment with business objectives and lifecycle management.

Prepare quarterly and year-end Canadian income tax provisions and corporate tax returns, support indirect and non-resident tax compliance, respond to audits and notices, manage tax forecasts and installments, assist with R&D tax credits, reconcile tax continuity schedules, liaise with tax authorities, and lead process improvements and automation.

The Lead, Global Change Enablement develops enterprise change capability, guides strategic outcomes, and facilitates change adoption across global functions and programs.

Lead global snacking product portfolio strategy and governance, balancing short-term commercial priorities with long-term innovation. Drive SKU lifecycle, maintain master SKU database and dashboards, model portfolio scenarios, prepare business cases, ensure governance adherence, partner cross-functionally (marketing, finance, supply chain), and manage direct reports to enable scalable, profitable launches and rationalization.

Lead planning, governance, and performance management for Global External Affairs & Sustainability. Produce executive materials, manage reporting cadence, coordinate policy monitoring, support budgeting and finance alignment, run cross-functional projects, and design operating rhythms to drive disciplined execution and measurable outcomes across government affairs, external communications, and sustainability teams.