McCain Foods (Canada) is Looking For VP, Data and Analytics at Florenceville-Bristol, NB Full Time

Position Type: Regular – Full-Time

Position Location: Toronto HQ

Grade: Grade 08

Requisition ID: 24713

Our Global 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 business from Agriculture to Manufacturing and commercial capabilities to enhance our Customer obsession. As part of this transformation, we are making significant investments into 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. Will you be part of this exciting journey?

The VP, Data & Analytics will have responsibility for McCain’s data and analytics strategy and roadmap. This role will be focused on continued data platform consolidation in support of delivering descriptive and predictive analytics and insights to the business. The VP of Data & Analytics is responsible for creating business and customer insights, driving customer engagement capabilities, and finding novel ways to extract value from our data systems. The VP, D&A will have to be adept at partnering across the organization to establish standards and improve data quality that fuel opportunity, innovation and support the further development of data use across the organization.

Key Responsibilities:
Work with stakeholders throughout the organization to define data strategy, and execute a plan to revolutionize the company’s data approach for leveraging company data to drive business solutions.

Consolidate and modernize data platforms to make data easily accessible across the organization

Help other leaders leverage data and predictive analytics to identify and pursue business opportunities

Lead the implementation and modernization of data visualization tools and build data and analytics products that empower leaders to make decisions and drive strategic business impact

Develop and implement policies, procedures, and standards regarding data operation, data accountability; data quality, privacy, and ethics; manage data governance

Provide the strategic mindset and capability to collaborate extensively with stakeholders to identify areas for the organization to unlock the power of data and insights.

Drive automation and continuous improvement of efforts and approaches to establish the desired future state in concert with business priorities.

Be a leader on emerging digital innovation opportunities and develop the organization-wide digital vision and supporting strategy.

Minimum Qualifications:
Minimum Bachelor’s degree in the field of computer science or equivalent experience.

Approximately 10+ years of experience leading an integrated technology and data function to enhance performance and outcomes.

Experience in significant senior leadership role, developing and managing Data and Analytics strategy into a business strategy

Demonstrated track record highlighting the ability to think strategically, build a shared vision and articulate it in a way that wins support across the wider team and organization

Strong problem-solving skills with an emphasis on product development

Ability to inspire and engage a diverse workforce to effectively meet current and future organizational requirements.

Experience building, empowering, motivating, and inspiring high-performing data and engineering teams and instilling a culture of creativity, accountability, and productivity.

Experience in strategic technology planning, execution, and policy development.

Strong technology leadership across diverse global corporate and executive information technology systems.

The above information indicates the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

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.

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Job Family: Information Technology

Division: Global Technology

Department: Digital and Data

Location(s): CA – Canada : New Brunswick : Florenceville-Bristol || CA – Canada : Ontario : Toronto

Company: McCain Foods (Canada)