Jobs at McCain Foods

Manages global brand equity initiatives, including marketing vision, logo and asset development, cultural playbooks, packaging design, and marketing technology projects. Coordinates agencies, stakeholders, timelines, budgets, purchase orders, invoicing, and communications across global and regional teams. Supports category workstreams, internal events, leadership updates, and strategic brand transformation activities in a high-visibility, fixed-term assignment.

Leads global capital expenditure reporting, analysis, forecasting, governance, ROI tracking, and capital allocation. Partners with engineering, procurement, finance, and operations leaders to improve investment decisions and financial performance. Develops dashboards, KPIs, policies, approval workflows, and process automation using tools including Power BI, SAP S/4HANA, and AI-enabled solutions. Provides training and drives continuous improvement across the global manufacturing network.

Leads McCain’s global digital manufacturing transformation by defining analytics and digital roadmaps, architecting solutions integrating MES, SCADA, PLCs, and cloud platforms, and developing AI/ML models for predictive maintenance and process optimization. Drives Industry 4.0 adoption, data governance, operational improvements, and enterprise-scale change initiatives while advising senior leadership and partnering across manufacturing, supply chain, and IT.

Leads global FP&A support for Commercial, R&D, and Marketing teams. Provides profitability, pricing, forecasting, budgeting, investment, and business case analysis; supports customer proposals, marketing investments, innovation decisions, and executive reporting. Partners with senior stakeholders to identify risks and growth opportunities while advancing finance transformation through AI, automation, analytics, and self-service reporting.

Supports global financial planning, forecasting, consolidation, reporting, and performance analysis across regional finance teams. The role analyzes income statement, balance sheet, cash flow, and KPI results; identifies business drivers, risks, and opportunities; prepares executive and Board materials; maintains planning tools; and contributes to reporting automation, finance transformation, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Leads global FP&A support for Commercial, R&D, and Marketing functions. Provides profitability analysis, pricing insights, business case evaluation, budgeting, forecasting, executive reporting, and strategic investment guidance. Partners with senior stakeholders to identify risks and opportunities, improve decision-making, and advance finance transformation through AI, automation, analytics, and self-service reporting.

Supports global corporate governance, legal entity management, and compliance activities. Maintains minute books, corporate records, ownership data, and organizational charts; prepares resolutions, certificates, statutory filings, KYC/AML documentation, and banking materials. Coordinates entity reorganizations, transactions, and ongoing compliance with internal stakeholders, law firms, financial institutions, and advisors. Reviews documentation for accuracy and maintains organized repositories of executed corporate records.

Leads enterprise data quality and governance initiatives, including data profiling, validation, cleansing, monitoring, metadata management, cataloging, lineage, classification, and data protection. Partners with business stakeholders, data owners, engineering, architecture, analytics, and security teams to define quality standards, remediate issues, improve governance-platform adoption, and establish data sensitivity controls. Provides technical leadership across global data environments and supports AI-enabled classification and responsible data use.

Leads end-to-end delivery of digital products and data-enabled solutions for R&D and Innovation. Translates scientific and business needs into technical requirements, architectures, integrations, and scalable solutions. Collaborates with product, data, AI, security, privacy, infrastructure, and vendor teams to manage backlogs, testing, releases, support, and continuous improvement. The role also evaluates responsible AI opportunities, establishes engineering standards, supports adoption, and monitors product performance and user feedback.

Leads enterprise virtual event production, including Microsoft Teams setup, live technical direction, presenter coordination, audience engagement, and troubleshooting. Produces internal videos, podcasts, animations, motion graphics, and branded communications content. Manages distribution lists, post-event follow-up, analytics, automation, and AI opportunities while supporting communications training and process improvements.

Leads channel and brand marketing initiatives for quick-service restaurant customers, driving portfolio optimization, innovation, commercialization, profitability, and category growth. Partners cross-functionally with Sales, Insights, Innovation, Finance, and Supply Chain to translate customer and consumer insights into strategies. Manages performance reporting, P&L and budget planning, IBP activities, customer analysis, and cross-functional teams while influencing stakeholders through data-driven recommendations and presentations.

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 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.

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.

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.