Vice President, Global Supply Chain

Position Title:Vice President, Global Supply Chain

Position Type: Regular - Full-Time ​

Requisition ID: 45489

Vice President, Global Supply Chain

Toronto

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.

About the role.

At McCain, Supply Chain is a strategic differentiator and critical enabler of our growth ambition. The Vice President, Global Supply Chain is responsible for setting the vision, strategy and global operating framework for McCain's end-to-end supply chain, ensuring the organization delivers industry-leading customer service, operational excellence, resilience, and cost performance.

Reporting to the Chief Manufacturing and Operations Officer, this role leads McCain's global supply chain agenda, including Integrated Business Planning, global network planning, inventory strategy, supply chain analytics, digital supply chain transformation, and coordination of McCain's global manufacturing and supply network.

As a member of the Global Operations Leadership Team, the Vice President plays a critical role in shaping enterprise strategy and ensuring the organization can effectively balance growth, service, cost, capacity, and risk across an increasingly complex global environment. Through strong leadership, talent development, and cross-functional partnership, the role builds the capabilities, processes, and culture required to create sustainable competitive advantage and exceptional customer experiences.

What you’ll be doing.

Lead McCain's Global Supply Chain Strategy

• Define and execute the long-term vision and strategy for McCain's global supply chain.
• Ensure supply chain capabilities support enterprise growth objectives, customer commitments, and business performance goals.
• Partner closely with regional teams to align global standards and strategic priorities while enabling local execution.
• Anticipate emerging trends and develop strategies to strengthen McCain's long-term competitiveness, resilience, and agility.

Drive World-Class Integrated Business Planning

• Own McCain's global Integrated Business Planning (IBP) framework and governance model.
• Ensure alignment between demand, supply, inventory, capacity, financial, and strategic plans.
• Lead executive decision-making processes that balance customer requirements, operational capabilities, and financial outcomes.
• Drive planning excellence through standardized processes, advanced analytics, and continuous improvement.

Optimize McCain's Global Supply Network

• Lead global supply network planning and capacity strategies to maximize service, efficiency, and flexibility.
• Partner across Manufacturing, Agriculture, Procurement, Commercial, Finance, and Regional Supply Chain teams to optimize end-to-end performance.
• Establish global inventory and deployment strategies that improve customer service while optimizing working capital.
• Ensure effective coordination of supply and capacity across regions to support enterprise priorities.

Accelerate Digital and Analytics Capabilities

• Lead the evolution of McCain's digital supply chain capabilities through advanced planning technologies, automation, AI-enabled insights, and analytics.
• Build end-to-end visibility and data-driven decision-making capabilities across the supply chain.
• Leverage technology and insights to improve planning accuracy, responsiveness, productivity, and customer outcomes.
• Champion simplification and continuous improvement across processes, systems, and ways of working.

Deliver Sustainable Business Performance

• Drive performance across service, inventory, forecast accuracy, productivity, and total supply chain cost.
• Identify and deliver transformational opportunities that unlock value and improve competitiveness.
• Establish clear performance measures, governance processes, and accountability mechanisms.
• Ensure supply chain decisions contribute to both near-term business results and long-term enterprise value creation.

Develop Organizational Capability

• Build and develop a high-performing global organization capable of meeting current and future business needs.
• Attract, develop, and retain exceptional talent while ensuring robust succession plans across critical roles.
• Create an inclusive, collaborative environment where diverse perspectives contribute to stronger outcomes.
• Coach and develop leaders across the enterprise to strengthen supply chain capabilities and leadership effectiveness.

Strengthen Resilience and Risk Management

• Lead enterprise approaches to supply chain resilience, continuity, and risk mitigation.
• Develop robust contingency and scenario-planning capabilities.
• Anticipate and proactively manage external risks, including geopolitical events, transportation disruptions, commodity volatility, and supply constraints.
• Ensure McCain maintains a resilient global network capable of supporting customers through changing market conditions.

What you’ll need to be successful.

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Operations, Business, or related field.
• MBA or other advanced degree preferred.

• 15+ years of progressive leadership experience within global supply chain, operations, planning, or related functions.
• Demonstrated success leading complex global organizations and enterprise-wide transformation initiatives.
• Deep expertise in Integrated Business Planning, supply chain strategy, network optimization, and digital supply chain capabilities.
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and lead through complexity and change.
• Experience developing high-performing leadership teams across multiple geographies and cultures.

Leadership Expectations

The Vice President, Global Supply Chain is expected to model and embed McCain's Leadership Principles in every aspect of leadership and decision-making.

We Are Customer Obsessed

• Starts with the customer and works backwards to ensure supply chain strategies deliver exceptional customer outcomes.
• Leverages data, insights, and analytics to improve service, reliability, and customer experience.
• Simplifies processes and ways of working to make doing business with McCain easy.

We Think Big and Plan Ahead

• Creates a compelling long-term vision for McCain's global supply chain.
• Continuously seeks opportunities to simplify, improve, and transform.
• Demonstrates courage to challenge conventional thinking and pursue innovative solutions that scale globally.

We Bring Out the Best in Our People

• Builds trust through humility, transparency, and active listening.
• Creates an environment where healthy debate, inclusion, and collaboration drive better decisions.
• Invests in talent through coaching, development, mentorship, and recognition.

We Act Like Owners

• Takes accountability for enterprise outcomes, not just functional results.
• Works across organizational boundaries to drive collective success.
• Creates clarity, prioritizes effectively, and delivers results with urgency and discipline.

About McCain.

Click Here to learn more about McCain and how we provide you with opportunities to make an impact that matters.

Leadership principles.

At McCain, our leadership principles guide how we engage with customers, collaborate as a team, and achieve success. We focus on understanding customer needs, driving innovation, empowering people, and taking ownership to clear obstacles and deliver results.

The McCain experience.

We are McCain. This statement is a testament to our collective strength and our individual value. Your contributions play a vital role in our success. Our winning culture is rooted in authenticity and trust, empowering us to bring out the best in one another. Here, you’ll find opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Join us and experience why we’re better together.

Our purpose is grounded in building meaningful relationships. We’re big believers in the power of working together in person—it helps us stay connected, collaborate more effectively, and grow as a team. At the same time, we recognize the importance of flexibility. Most office-based roles follow a hybrid model, with the option to work remotely two days a week. There may be exceptions depending on the role and location, so we encourage you to speak with your recruiter for more details.

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.

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 find appropriate solutions.

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Job Family: Supply Chain & Logistics

Location(s): CA - Canada : Ontario : Toronto || CA - Canada : Ontario : Bolton || CA - Canada : Ontario : Borden || CA - Canada : Ontario : Brampton || CA - Canada : Ontario : Dedicated Mississauga || CA - Canada : Ontario : Etobicoke || CA - Canada : Ontario : Forest || CA - Canada : Ontario : Guelph || CA - Canada : Ontario : Kingston || CA - Canada : Ontario : Kitchener || CA - Canada : Ontario : Lansdowne || CA - Canada : Ontario : London || CA - Canada : Ontario : Maidstone || CA - Canada : Ontario : Markham || CA - Canada : Ontario : Mississauga || CA - Canada : Ontario : Ottawa || CA - Canada : Ontario : Thunder Bay || CA - Canada : Ontario : Waterloo || CA - Canada : Ontario : Windsor || CA - Canada : Ontario : Woodstock

Company: McCain Foods (Canada)