Jobs at McCain Foods

Drive food service sales growth across Kolkata by managing distributors, expanding HORECA customers, achieving sales targets, and maintaining commercial and stock hygiene. The role includes distributor development, customer acquisition, claims management, sales reporting, trade promotions, product listings, sampling initiatives, and leadership of promoters and supervisors. It also requires collaboration with internal teams to execute business plans and expand McCain’s market presence.

Develops and executes category growth strategies for McCain’s Own Label portfolio across Retail and Foodservice. Analyzes market, shopper, loyalty, panel, customer, and operator data to identify trends, opportunities, and risks. Creates customer recommendations, assortment plans, product proposals, and category reviews while partnering with commercial, marketing, innovation, and analytics teams. Builds customer relationships and supports data-driven selling tools and propositions across UK and European markets.

Coordinates Compass Phase 2 testing and digital transformation implementation across R&D and business stakeholders. Manages testing progress, issue resolution, risks, data readiness, reporting, process documentation, training materials, user communications, and adoption activities. Supports alignment between Digital Technology, project teams, and business leaders while creating reusable implementation assets and transferring knowledge for long-term transformation success.

Leads end-to-end delivery of digital products and data-enabled solutions for R&D and Innovation. Translates scientific and business needs into technical requirements, architectures, integrations, and scalable solutions. Collaborates with product, data, AI, security, privacy, infrastructure, and vendor teams to manage backlogs, testing, releases, support, and continuous improvement. The role also evaluates responsible AI opportunities, establishes engineering standards, supports adoption, and monitors product performance and user feedback.

Supports consumer and operator insights for McCain’s foodservice and snacking businesses. Analyzes surveys, qualitative feedback, syndicated data, and market trends; supports primary research; maintains the Insights Hub; develops consumer frameworks and journey maps; and translates findings into recommendations for brand, innovation, and go-to-market decisions. Collaborates with marketing, sales, research vendors, and cross-functional stakeholders while using AI-enabled tools to improve analysis and reporting.

Leads enterprise virtual event production, including Microsoft Teams setup, live technical direction, presenter coordination, audience engagement, and troubleshooting. Produces internal videos, podcasts, animations, motion graphics, and branded communications content. Manages distribution lists, post-event follow-up, analytics, automation, and AI opportunities while supporting communications training and process improvements.

Leads McCain’s North American campus recruiting and early careers strategy, including internships, co-ops, rotational programs, and entry-level hiring. Builds university and stakeholder partnerships, oversees recruiting operations, metrics, budgets, candidate experience, and talent conversion. Manages and develops a team of campus recruiting professionals while strengthening employer branding and program effectiveness.

Leads channel and brand marketing initiatives for quick-service restaurant customers, driving portfolio optimization, innovation, commercialization, profitability, and category growth. Partners cross-functionally with Sales, Insights, Innovation, Finance, and Supply Chain to translate customer and consumer insights into strategies. Manages performance reporting, P&L and budget planning, IBP activities, customer analysis, and cross-functional teams while influencing stakeholders through data-driven recommendations and presentations.

Leads food science and product development for McCain’s global snacking innovation portfolio. Translates consumer insights into concepts, prototypes, and commercialized products while providing expertise in ingredients, processing, functionality, and food design. Manages technical projects through scale-up, coordinates cross-functional stakeholders, oversees testing protocols, develops supplier and research partnerships, supports cost optimization, and delivers technical training. Requires strong scientific leadership, innovation, communication, and stakeholder management capabilities in a global CPG environment.

Supports Benelux retail marketing activities, including customer complaint coordination, product information administration, e-commerce content, social media management, paid campaign support, reporting, purchase orders, promotional allowances, packaging changes, and website updates. The role requires strong organization, digital marketing knowledge, communication skills, and fluency in Dutch and English.

Manages retail operations for McCain Foods in Mexico. The provided description does not include specific responsibilities, qualifications, compensation, travel requirements, or technical requirements.

Provides hands-on, site-based HR support at McCain’s Ballarat plant across employee relations, labour relations, recruitment, onboarding, employee lifecycle activities, leave administration, engagement, wellbeing, retention, and HR systems adoption. Partners with leaders, employees, Talent Acquisition, HR Business Partners, and service delivery teams while supporting compliance, employee experience, and culture initiatives.

Leads digital technology and data enablement for McCain’s Global Snacking commercial division. Partners with Sales, Marketing, and technology teams to identify opportunities, define and prioritize digital projects, drive adoption, support change and continuous improvement, monitor innovation trends, and measure business value. The role advances commercial strategy through digital transformation, customer engagement platforms, sales execution systems, trade management solutions, and analytics.

Manage McCain’s Retail Potato brand portfolio across Australia and New Zealand. Responsibilities include developing brand plans, analyzing consumer and market insights, leading innovation and new product development projects, executing integrated campaigns, monitoring portfolio performance, managing stakeholders and agencies, and optimizing marketing investments to drive growth and commercial results.

Leads enterprise AI engineering teams and owns the full lifecycle of AI initiatives, from prototyping through deployment, operationalization, and scaling. The role establishes engineering standards, architectures, MLOps practices, evaluation frameworks, responsible AI controls, and production reliability for generative, multimodal, and agentic AI systems. It also mentors technical teams, partners with infrastructure and data groups, and advises business and executive stakeholders on high-value AI solutions.

Supports agricultural finance operations by processing potato and seed transactions, reconciling stocks, invoices, balances, and accounts, and performing financial controls. Coordinates with Procurement, Finance, farmers, transport providers, grading stations, and field teams to resolve discrepancies and disputes. Contributes to monthly reconciliations, reporting, dashboards, databases, process improvements, and cross-functional digital projects across France and the Netherlands.

Leads the manufacturing technology relationship for LATAM, aligning business priorities with technology strategy and roadmaps. The role manages demand prioritization, solution deployment, requirements translation, testing, adoption, training, budgets, service levels, risks, and transformation programs. It partners with manufacturing leaders, global technology teams, product owners, and external providers while promoting data and analytics adoption and leading through influence across matrixed teams.

Leads internal communications for regional change, transformation, commercial priorities, and significant business updates. Develops communication strategies, plans, leadership toolkits, presentations, stories, and multi-channel content for diverse employee audiences. Partners with senior leaders and cross-functional teams, translates complex business information into clear messaging, supports sensitive announcements, and contributes to campaigns and employee events. Uses digital and AI-enabled tools to improve content creation, localization, measurement, and communication effectiveness.

Serve as regional liaison between LATAM business stakeholders and global Data & AI teams to translate requirements, support AI adoption, enable users, prototype BI/AI solutions, drive insights, and ensure alignment with global governance and standards.

Leads daily cold storage and distribution operations at the Smithton plant, including inventory movement planning, warehouse systems, shipment processes, safety, food quality, compliance, continuous improvement, and cost reduction. Develops team capability, manages operational resources, removes obstacles, and coordinates with plant leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to achieve safety, quality, service, cost, and performance targets.