Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Requisition ID: 43600
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.
The AI Deployment Manager is responsible for driving enterprise adoption, deployment, governance, and measurement of AI technologies across McCain's global workforce. Reporting into the AI Enablement function, this role works across business units and functions to deliver scalable AI solutions, maximize adoption, manage governance requirements, and translate AI investments into measurable business value. This is a hands-on delivery and program leadership role that partners closely with IT, Security, Legal, HR, and business stakeholders while leading a network of AI champions across the organization.
What you'll be doing.
- Lead enterprise deployment and adoption of AI platforms and tools, including Anthropic Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, AI Hub, and future AI technologies.
- Plan and execute large-scale AI rollouts from pilot programs through enterprise-wide deployment.
- Develop and manage reporting frameworks, dashboards, and analytics that measure adoption, utilization, cost efficiency, and business impact.
- Monitor and govern AI platform usage, providing transparency into tool adoption, use cases, licensing utilization, and associated costs across the enterprise.
- Collaborate with Security, Legal, Privacy, and Governance stakeholders to establish guidance, policies, and controls that support responsible AI adoption.
- Configure and support enterprise AI deployment requirements, including identity management, provisioning, managed settings, audit capabilities, and compliance controls.
- Partner with technical teams to deploy AI capabilities within approved cloud environments, including Microsoft Azure AI services and enterprise AI platforms.
- Build scalable enablement programs including training, office hours, AI champion networks, use-case libraries, and reusable playbooks.
- Prepare executive-level reporting on adoption trends, business outcomes, costs, risks, and recommended actions to increase value realization.
- Identify and remove barriers to adoption while continuously improving the employee AI experience through stakeholder feedback and data-driven insights.
What you'll need to be successful.
- 7+ years of experience in technology deployment, enablement, adoption, solutions delivery, technical program management, or a related field.
- Demonstrated success leading large-scale technology or platform rollouts and driving sustained user adoption.
- Hands-on experience with enterprise AI platforms and large language model technologies, including experience with at least two major AI tools such as Anthropic Claude, Microsoft Copilot, or Google Gemini.
- Strong analytical and reporting capabilities with experience developing dashboards, adoption metrics, cost models, and executive reporting.
- Working knowledge of enterprise deployment technologies including SSO, SCIM provisioning, managed device configurations, and change management methodologies.
- Understanding of Large Language Models (LLMs), Small Language Models (SLMs), and related AI technologies, including trade-offs around cost, accuracy, latency, and data governance.
- Experience partnering with Security, Legal, Privacy, and Governance teams to implement responsible AI practices and controls.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence both executive leaders and end users.
- Preferred:
- Experience deploying Claude Code and multi-model AI environments.
- Experience with Microsoft Azure AI services, Azure OpenAI, or enterprise AI platforms.
- Familiarity with AI governance frameworks, chargeback models, and AI Centers of Excellence.
- Change management certification (Prosci, ACMP, or equivalent) and experience operating within a global enterprise environment.
About the team.
This role sits within McCain's Digital Technology organization as part of the AI Enablement team. The AI Enablement function partners across the enterprise with IT, Security, Legal, Privacy, HR, and business leadership teams to enable responsible AI adoption at scale. The AI Deployment Manager works closely with technical and business stakeholders while leading a network of AI champions to accelerate adoption and business value realization across the organization.
About McCain.
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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.
Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with McCain's Global Privacy Policy and Global Employee Privacy Policy , as applicable. McCain leverages AI in the hiring process, though all final decisions are made by humans. You can understand our approach to AI and how your personal information is being handled here .
Job Family: Information Technology
Location(s): CA - Canada : Ontario : Toronto
Company: McCain Foods (Canada)
Skills Required
- 7+ years of experience in technology deployment, enablement, adoption, solutions delivery, technical program management, or a related field.
- Demonstrated success leading large-scale technology or platform rollouts and driving sustained user adoption.
- Hands-on experience with enterprise AI platforms and large language model technologies, including experience with at least two major AI tools such as Anthropic Claude, Microsoft Copilot, or Google Gemini.
- Strong analytical and reporting capabilities with experience developing dashboards, adoption metrics, cost models, and executive reporting.
- Working knowledge of enterprise deployment technologies including SSO, SCIM provisioning, managed device configurations, and change management methodologies.
- Understanding of Large Language Models (LLMs), Small Language Models (SLMs), and related AI technologies, including trade-offs around cost, accuracy, latency, and data governance.
- Experience partnering with Security, Legal, Privacy, and Governance teams to implement responsible AI practices and controls.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence both executive leaders and end users.
- Experience deploying Claude Code and multi-model AI environments.
- Experience with Microsoft Azure AI services, Azure OpenAI, or enterprise AI platforms.
- Familiarity with AI governance frameworks, chargeback models, and AI Centers of Excellence.
- Change management certification (Prosci, ACMP, or equivalent) and experience operating within a global enterprise environment.
What We Do
The power it has to uplift and bring people, Guided by our purpose - Celebrating real connections through delicious, planet-friendly food - we believe that working together with our teams, business and community partners will bring sustainable growth and positive change - today, tomorrow and for generations to come. As a privately owned family company with over 60 years of experience, a presence in over 160 countries and a global team of 22,000 people, our values and culture are at the heart of everything we do. Our product quality, people and customer dedication help us achieve global sales in excess of CDN $10 billion. Through our investment and innovation, we continue to be a global leader in prepared potato products, including our famous French Fries and appetizers. We are passionate about supporting and developing our people-providing opportunities to grow and learn in their roles, as well as building careers for the long term.
Why Work With Us
We are working to bring digital tools and data into our processes to drive efficiency, automation and data-driven insights. From connecting our business, enabling our supply chain, supporting our customers, to reinventing agriculture. So if you are a tech expert looking to join a company transforming technology, think of McCain.
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McCain Foods Offices
Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
In both our manufacturing plants and corporate offices, we believe connection brings out the best in our people. While in-office expectations will vary by role, flexibility is key. In our corporate offices, the hybrid standard is 3-days in office.


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