Jobs at McCain Foods

Leads channel strategy and execution for QSR, chain, and convenience-store segments. Develops growth plans, customer prioritization frameworks, execution calendars, budgets, and commercial insights. Partners cross-functionally with Sales, Marketing, Category Management, Finance, Supply Chain, R&D, and Culinary to deliver customer solutions and improve marketplace performance. Manages and develops a high-performing team while supporting strategic customer partnerships and commercial governance.

Leads McCain’s North American engineering organization across capital projects, reliability, environmental systems, resource efficiency, utilities, and maintenance. Oversees 45–50 engineering staff, a portfolio of 400+ projects, and $200M–$600M CAD in annual capital spending. Sets engineering strategy, manages budgets, drives safety and regulatory compliance, improves equipment reliability and OEE, advances sustainability initiatives, and develops engineering talent across manufacturing and agricultural facilities.

Develop and deliver sales capability, onboarding, coaching, and commercial excellence programs across Foodservice, QSR, Key Accounts, and Retail channels. Create playbooks, learning content, and measurement frameworks; train leaders on coaching and AI-enabled tools; evaluate sales technologies; and partner cross-functionally to improve sales performance and productivity. Travel approximately 40–50% throughout Canada and the United States.

Serves as the primary front-desk representative at McCain’s Oakbrook headquarters. Responsibilities include welcoming visitors, managing check-in and badges, operating the switchboard, supporting onboarding and offboarding, coordinating mail and deliveries, assisting with meetings and events, maintaining emergency readiness, and handling office service requests. The role requires professional communication, strong organization, confidentiality, customer service, and reliable onsite coverage.

Provides direct support to the Chief Innovation & Marketing Officer and potentially another senior executive. Responsibilities include complex calendar management, domestic and international travel coordination, meeting and event support, expense reporting, stakeholder communication, action tracking, onboarding logistics, and confidential information management. The role also supports leadership-team operations, improves administrative processes, and coordinates across global functions and time zones.

Paid summer 2027 supply chain internship supporting logistics, customer service, deployment, inventory planning, or supply planning. Responsibilities include analyzing performance data, supporting daily operations, identifying process improvements, managing large datasets, and collaborating across teams. The role provides exposure to inventory, demand and supply balancing, warehouses, transportation networks, and customer relationships. Interns will develop business acumen, problem-solving, communication, leadership, and teamwork skills.

Develop and execute integrated marketing communications strategies and campaigns supporting brand growth, customer engagement, product launches, and business objectives across Foodservice and QSR channels. Partner with marketing, sales, insights, customer teams, and agencies; manage timelines, budgets, resources, and deliverables; use marketplace insights and performance data to measure and optimize programs.

Supports integrated marketing communications programs for Foodservice and QSR channels, including campaigns, product launches, customer-facing materials, digital initiatives, and marketing activations. Coordinates cross-functional and agency partners, manages timelines, approvals, budgets, purchase orders, and deliverables, and uses customer, consumer, competitive, and marketplace insights to improve campaign performance and support business growth.

The Inventory Analyst manages aged, long, blocked, and discontinued inventory across McCain’s North American network. Responsibilities include analyzing inventory risks, maintaining SAP inventory status accuracy, coordinating disposition activities, supporting 3PL re-casing, tracking corrective actions, preparing task force meetings, improving reporting and processes, and partnering cross-functionally to reduce obsolescence and optimize supply chain performance.

Leads McCain’s global revenue management strategy, including pricing, portfolio optimization, trade investment, promotional effectiveness, and commercial governance. Develops growth opportunities and business cases using analytics, influences global stakeholders, and drives change management and capability building across Foodservice, QSR, and Retail channels. Partners with regional and cross-functional teams to improve profitable growth, optimize portfolios, and establish global best practices.

Develop and manage detailed production schedules to meet customer demand while optimizing inventory, capacity, and costs. Coordinate cross-functionally, identify and mitigate supply risks, maintain planning parameters, monitor schedule adherence, lead plant scheduling meetings, and support inventory optimization and continuous improvement initiatives.

Leads McCain’s North American campus recruiting and early careers strategy, including internships, co-ops, rotational programs, and entry-level hiring. Builds university and stakeholder partnerships, oversees recruiting operations, metrics, budgets, candidate experience, and talent conversion. Manages and develops a team of campus recruiting professionals while strengthening employer branding and program effectiveness.

Leads global commercial digital transformation across marketing, sales, and innovation. Develops technology strategies, roadmaps, investment plans, and initiative portfolios; drives adoption of digital, data, and AI capabilities; ensures business value, governance, compliance, customer experience, and operational excellence. Builds stakeholder and partner relationships, oversees budgets and ROI, and develops inclusive, high-performing technology teams through coaching and mentorship.

Lead global digital manufacturing transformation by defining roadmap, architecting analytics and AI solutions, integrating MES/SCADA/PLCs with cloud, developing predictive maintenance and anomaly-detection models, driving OEE and quality improvements, enforcing data governance, and scaling Industry 4.0 capabilities across sites.

Serve as strategic HR partner to North America Sales, aligning talent, workforce planning, leadership development, and organizational design with business goals. Lead talent reviews, succession planning, performance management, employee relations, change initiatives, and use workforce analytics and digital/AI tools to inform decisions and improve people outcomes. Coach leaders and manage complex employee relations and transformations.

Coordinate day-to-day rail operations and weekly/annual rail plans to ensure efficient, reliable shipment flow. Manage execution, tracking, exception resolution, stakeholder communications, railcar utilization, cost control, invoice audits, and performance reviews using SAP/S4, TMS, Power BI, and Excel while driving continuous improvement.

Own and deliver high-value AI use cases end-to-end by embedding in business workflows, partnering with AI engineering pods, ensuring integrations (SAP, Salesforce, Databricks, Distyl), driving adoption, measuring business outcomes, and enforcing Responsible AI, security, and governance standards.