Jobs at McCain Foods

Designs and delivers sales capability, onboarding, coaching, and commercial excellence programs across Foodservice, QSR, Key Accounts, and Retail. Creates playbooks, learning content, and manager coaching tools; measures behavior change and business impact; promotes AI adoption and evaluates sales enablement technologies. Partners cross-functionally with Sales, Marketing, HR, Digital, Category, and Analytics teams. Travels approximately 40–50% throughout Canada and the United States for training, coaching, and commercial events.

Provides onsite and remote IT support for a corporate office, including white-glove executive support, end-user devices, meeting-room technology, servers, backups, networks, security controls, asset management, and software deployments. The role also advances AI-enabled productivity and automation, supports Microsoft environments and ServiceNow processes, coordinates vendors, and serves as the primary technology liaison for local business stakeholders.

Supports global finance and operations through budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, cost analysis, Total Delivered Cost reporting, and cost savings programs. Partners with finance, manufacturing, and regional operations teams to identify cost drivers and efficiencies. Develops Power BI dashboards, benchmarking tools, and analytical frameworks while driving standardization, automation, governance, and digital transformation initiatives.

Provides operational support for Global R&D digital systems and data platforms. Responsibilities include monitoring and resolving data quality issues, administering user access, validating integrations, developing reports and dashboards, documenting procedures, supporting users, and identifying process improvements. The role partners across R&D, Quality, Regulatory, Packaging, Procurement, and IT while using tools such as Power BI, Databricks, Excel, and Microsoft Copilot.

Develops sales across the Eastern GTA by managing territory coverage, building relationships with foodservice operators and distributors, prospecting new accounts, supporting product demonstrations and promotions, managing contracts and pricing requests, maintaining Salesforce records, monitoring performance, and collaborating with internal teams to drive profitable growth.

Supports the Chief Human Resources Officer and Global HR Leadership Team through complex calendar management, travel coordination, communications, executive presentations, Board materials, leadership meetings, expenses, invoices, document repositories, and special initiatives. The role handles highly confidential information, tracks priorities and deliverables, coordinates executive and employee events, and serves as a trusted liaison to senior leaders and Board stakeholders.

Partners with Marketing, Revenue Management, and business leaders to deliver financial analysis, forecasting, reporting, budgeting, business cases, pricing models, and investment reviews. Analyzes marketing spending, promotional effectiveness, profitability, and ROI while developing Power BI dashboards and improving finance processes. Supports leadership reviews and provides strategic recommendations for profitable growth.

Leads McCain’s global Revenue Growth Management Centre of Excellence, setting frameworks, pricing and promotion strategies, trade investment governance, portfolio optimization, and analytical standards. Partners with global and regional commercial teams to identify growth opportunities, improve profitability, build organizational capabilities, and deliver measurable value. Leads a global team and drives enterprise-wide commercial transformation across Retail, Foodservice, and QSR channels.

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 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.

Leads McCain’s enterprise data platform governance organization, establishing governance strategy, master data management, data quality, metadata, lifecycle controls, stewardship, and operating models. Oversees SAP MDG and enterprise data capabilities across supply chain, finance, customer, product, supplier, and operational domains. Builds governance councils, KPIs, and executive reporting; resolves complex data issues; supports transformation, compliance, analytics, and AI initiatives; and recruits and develops a global team.

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.