VP, HR Snacking

Position Title: VP, HR Snacking
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Grade: Grade 08
Requisition ID: 41851
Opportunity, Scope & Impact
The Vice President, Human Resources - Global Snacking will lead and evolve the people and culture agenda for McCain's Global Snacking business, serving as a key member of the Snacking Leadership Team. This role is accountable for shaping and executing a forward-looking talent and organization agenda that enables business growth, strengthens capability, and fosters a high-performance, inclusive culture.
As a strategic partner, this leader will align HR strategy with Snacking's commercial priorities - ensuring people and organization decisions directly enable growth, performance, and value creation. Operating in a global, matrixed environment, they will partner closely with Regional HR, Global Centers of Excellence, and senior business leaders to drive impact.
This role will play a critical part in shaping the growth, performance, and long-term capability of the Global Snacking business, balancing enterprise thinking with execution in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership & Business Partnership

• Serve as a trusted advisor to the President, Global Snacking and Snacking Leadership Team, shaping the people and culture agenda to enable business strategy and growth.
• Act as the primary HR partner to Snacking Operations, supporting a network of 13 manufacturing sites and driving safety culture, frontline engagement, and workforce performance.
• Align HR strategy with commercial priorities, ensuring people and organization decisions directly enable growth, performance, and value creation.
• Provide strategic HR counsel and leadership coaching to senior leaders, driving effectiveness and alignment at the top of the organization.
• Bring strong intellectual agility and judgment to translate data, insights, and emerging trends into clear, forward-looking people decisions.
• Drive enterprise-level thinking across the Snacking business, ensuring talent and organizational decisions are made with a global, long-term lens.

Organizational Design & Effectiveness

• Shape and evolve the Global Snacking organizational structure to enable speed, accountability, and delivery against growth ambitions.
• Define clear roles, spans, and layers to optimize decision-making, accountability, and performance.
• Partner with Regional and Global HR to ensure alignment with enterprise frameworks, policies, and labor standards.
• Bring a strong understanding of manufacturing and operational environments to shape structures, roles, and workforce models that enable safe, efficient, and high-performing plant operations.

Talent Strategy & Workforce Planning

• Define and execute the Global Snacking talent strategy, ensuring the organization has the talent, capabilities, and leadership required to deliver on current and future business priorities.

• Lead workforce planning and organizational effectiveness initiatives, aligning talent supply with business demand and investment priorities.
• Partner closely with Finance to connect talent planning to growth, productivity, and financial targets.

Leadership, Capability & Succession

• Strengthen leadership pipelines through targeted development, succession planning, and career pathing across critical roles.
• Build a strong and sustainable leadership bench, ensuring depth across key roles and readiness to scale with business growth.
• Anticipate future capability needs and ensure the organization is equipped to deliver against evolving business priorities.
• Champion learning and development initiatives that build high-performance, future-ready teams.

Culture, Engagement & Change Leadership

• Foster an inclusive, high-performance culture that drives accountability, engagement, and sustained business performance.
• Lead engagement strategies that promote recognition, accountability, and two-way communication across the organization.
• Leverage engagement insights to identify trends, address challenges, and drive continuous improvement.

Integration & Global Alignment

• Support the integration of Global Snacking HR priorities within broader McCain initiatives, ensuring alignment on commercial and cultural goals.
• Lead deployment of global HR processes within Snacking, adapting where necessary while maintaining consistency with enterprise standards.
• Partner with Global Communications and HR stakeholders to deliver clear, aligned messaging and drive effective change management.

Leadership Profile

• Strategic Partner: Shapes and influences business strategy through a strong people and culture lens.
• Culture Champion: Embodies McCain's values and builds an inclusive, high-performance environment.
• Talent Builder: Develops leadership pipelines and builds future-ready capabilities.
• Influential Communicator: Translates complex strategies into clear, compelling messaging that drives alignment and engagement.
• Collaborative Leader: Builds strong cross-functional partnerships and fosters shared accountability across a matrixed organization.
• Learning Agility & Judgment: Brings strong intellectual agility and judgment to translate data, insights, and emerging trends into clear, forward-looking people decisions.

Qualifications & Experience

• Significant experience in senior HR leadership roles within complex, global, matrixed organizations.
• Proven ability to shape and execute people strategies that enable business growth and transformation.
• Deep expertise across organizational design, talent strategy, workforce planning, and capability development.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to connect talent decisions to commercial outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and lead through complexity and change.
• Significant experience partnering with manufacturing or operational environments, with demonstrated impact on safety culture, frontline engagement, and workforce productivity.

Compensation Package:

• Toronto: $280,000 - $315,000 CAD annually + bonus eligibility + Long-Term Incentive eligibility
  Please note compensation may vary based on experience and background

McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
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Job Family: Human Resources
Division: Global Snacking
Department: Global Snacking HR
Location(s): CA - Canada : Ontario : Toronto
Company: McCain Foods (Canada)