Job Specifications
Position Title: Director, Digital Technology - Snacking
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Requisition ID: 39339
At McCain, we believe in meaningful technology – using digital technology not just for innovation, but to make a difference globally. Join a team where innovation drives purpose and technology shapes the future. This is your chance to develop sought-after expertise, work on exciting, high-impact projects, and create solutions that truly make a difference. If you're ready to push boundaries, tackle purposeful challenges, and build a career that matters, we want you on our team.
In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences - together. With a customer-first mindset, we make doing business with McCain easy.
Overview
Our Digital Technology team’s goal is to leverage technology and data to drive profitable growth, focus on enhancing customer experience and to further our purpose of 'Celebrating real connections through delicious, planet-friendly food'. McCain has embarked on an ambitious digital transformation across our value chain from Agriculture, Manufacturing, Supply Chain and commercial capabilities to enhance our customer obsession and drive digital rebirth of McCain. As part of this transformation, we are making significant investments in our digital platforms, technology transformations and in building a data driven culture. We are building digital products for our customers, suppliers/growers, and McCain team members to enable digital processes and data-driven automation. Through our investments, we will transform McCain into a company that empowers our teams with easy-to-use systems which will help them collaborate better, be productive and make data driven decisions.
This is an exisiting vacancy for McCain which is actively seeking to be hired. Will you be part of this exciting journey?
About The Role.
Reporting to the DT-SLT member, the leader will be responsible for driving the strategic technology strategy and priorities for the Global Snacking business while ensuring a unified approach to successful implementations and driving positive business outcomes. This leader will also develop digital strategy for the Global Snacking division, prioritize investments and ensure applicable global programs land successfully with the right change management oversight.
We are actively seeking a Business Unit Leader for Digital, Technology, and Data to spearhead the technology and digital transformation initiatives within our Global Snacking division. This role will emphasize enhancing customer experience and accelerating product innovation which can be deployed globally. The ideal candidate will possess strong strategic acumen, serve as a trusted advisor to the Global Snacking President and Senior Leadership Team, and demonstrate exemplary leadership skills. They will champion the adoption of innovative technologies and data-driven solutions, with a commitment to talent development and fostering a high-performance culture.
This leader will partner with other divisions to build and execute the strategic digital agenda for the Global Snacking business unit.
What You’ll Be Doing.
Develop digital strategy and investment roadmap in partnership with the divisional president and senior Digital Technology team members.
Lead and develop a team of technology professionals to design and deliver technology solutions that support the strategic goals of the business unit.
Collaborate with senior executives, to understand business objectives and provide technology solutions that drive growth and profitability.
Develop strong relationships with business stakeholders to define, prioritize and deliver the technology strategy and roadmap along with the digital transformation strategic agenda.
Lead the digital transformation agenda and be the driving force for innovation and adoption of new technologies such as AI, API, Cloud, and Machine Learning.
Lead technology investment plans, including budgeting, forecasting and business case development. Build business adoption plans, resourcing plans and identify vendor alternatives. Drive change management and business outcomes.
Partner with and be the trusted partner to other Technology Leaders to maximize enterprise scale, drive global technology solution deployment and ensure change is well managed.
Work with our global technology group and internal organization to ensure that customer experience, design thinking, scalability, stability, and cost-effectiveness are key aspects of delivered technology solutions.
Foster a growth mindset and fail-fast culture that promotes continuous learning, experimentation, and innovation.
Manage multiple priorities and be self-driven to deliver results on time and within budget.
Partner with business stakeholders to accelerate and improve customer experience, business processes, and partner ecosystem opportunities in alignment with the Digitalization Agenda.
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About the Company
At McCain, we believe food plays an important role in people’s lives, with the power to bring individuals, families, and communities together.
As a privately owned family company with over 67 years of experience, a presence in over 160 countries, and a global team of 23,000+ people, our values and culture are at the heart of everything we do. Our product quality, people and customer dedication help us achieve global sales in excess of CDN $14 billion. Through our investment and innovation agenda, we continue to be a globa...
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