Position Title: Manager, Corporate Strategy
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Position Location: Toronto HQ
Requisition ID: 34728
In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and interested in helping each other create good work experiences. We think about the customer and make doing business with McCain easy.
As the world leader in frozen potato products with an ambition to continue growing, McCain's corporate development and strategy agenda continues to expand, and we are looking for a Manager, Strategy to join our team. In this role, the Manager, Strategy, will report into the VP, Corporate Development and Strategy (CD&S) and will play a key role in shaping our global strategy and ensuring it is successfully achieved.
The Manager will work in a project-based model across global strategic initiatives at the top of the executive agenda at McCain, similar to an internal consulting team. Our projects vary, dynamically shifting with the needs of the business, however typical work includes: executing global strategy initiatives, partnering with regions/functions to make strategic decisions, formulating business cases, and synthesizing market trends and insights to inform our strategic direction. This role will have high exposure to senior leadership members, helping them make the most important decisions facing our business today.
Occasional travel may be required.
Key Accountabilities:
- In partnership with CD&S leaders, develop frameworks and conduct analyses to identify and deconstruct global business decisions.
- Develop operational and financial models to aid decision making.
- In collaboration with regional and functional teams, support the development and evaluation of strategic plans for the Senior Leadership Team and the Board of Directors.
- Perform industry research and develop views on sector, segment, and companies of strategic interest to McCain and the Senior Leadership Team.
- Prepare "executive ready" presentation materials and deliverables for review with the executive team and the Board.
- Liaise with internal business managers and external advisors and consultants - investment bankers, management consultants, lawyers and accountants.
About you:
- 2-3+ years of relevant work experience (strong preference for experience in management consultancy, strategy function or corporate development).
- Relevant undergraduate degree
- Strong analytical skills, preferably with experience in building complex strategic financial models
- Detail oriented with ability to take ownership of key analyses and workstreams independently
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to distill complex issues and data into insights
- Comfort with ambiguity and a rapidly evolving business landscape
- Ability to work collaboratively across functions and teams
- Creative and inquisitive problem-solver
- Positive, collaborative, and influential relationship builder
About McCain.
At McCain, we're feeding the world: from French fries to cakes, we contribute to the important role food plays in people's lives. That's why we're dedicated to ensuring our core values-Family, Authentic, Trusted, and Quality-shine through every day. As a privately owned family company with over 60 years of experience, a presence in more than 160 countries, and a global team of 22,000 people, our values and culture are at the heart of everything we do. We believe that we can work together, along with our business and community partners, to bring sustainable growth and positive change today, tomorrow, and for generations to come. Join us and see how you can MAKE IT at McCain!
Leadership Principles.
Our principles, each with related practices, guide our actions across the organization. Together, they address how McCain interacts with our customers and employees, and how we work as individuals and collectively to find success. While each role adheres to the Leadership Principles, individual roles may focus more on a specific principle or principles.
We are customer obsessed. Customers are our starting point. By understanding their needs and leveraging data and consumer insights, we drive mutual success.
We think big and plan ahead. Through ambition, curiosity, and smart risks, we can accomplish goals, refine processes, and innovate to scale success.
We bring out the best in our people. We create safe spaces for our people so that trust and empowerment come naturally. Inclusion is about listening first, showing humility, and working together.
We act like owners. Together, we clear obstacles and do the work that makes us all successful and proud to be part of McCain.
The McCain experience.
We are McCain: this statement is about our power collectively and our importance individually-your impact is a significant part of the business. Our winning culture focuses on authenticity and trust so we can always bring out the best in our people. Here, you have the opportunity to learn, grow, and thrive while being yourself. Join our team to see why we're better together.
Compensation Package : $97,500.00 - $130,000.00 CAD annually + bonus eligibility
The above reflects the target compensation range for the position at the time of posting. Hiring compensation will be determined based on experience, skill set, education/training, and other organizational needs.
Benefits : At McCain, we're on a mission to create a winning culture that puts employee safety and wellbeing at the heart of what we do, every day. We understand and appreciate that each person's needs are unique and ensure our benefits & wellbeing programs reflect that. Employees are eligible for the following benefits: health coverage (medical, dental, vision, prescription drug), retirement savings benefits, and leave support including medical, family and bereavement. Wellbeing programs include vacation and holidays, company-supported volunteering time, and mental health resources. Coverages are aligned to country, provincial and state governing plans and can vary by work level, location and nature of the role. Additional benefit details available during the application process.
Your well-being matters to us, and we're here to provide you with the necessary resources to support you in being your best self at work - and at home.
McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. We see value in ensuring we have a diverse, antiracist, inclusive, merit-based, and equitable workplace. As a global family-owned company we are proud to reflect the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that diversity drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger.
McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.
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Job Family: Finance
Division: Global Finance
Department: Corporate Development and Strategy
Location(s): CA - Canada : Ontario : Toronto
Company: McCain Foods (Canada)
