Position Title: Agriculture Analytics & Digital Enablement Lead

Position Type: Regular - Full-Time

Requisition ID: 41301

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.

McCain’s North American Agriculture organization is transforming into a digitally enabled, data-driven operation that connects farm-level activities to downstream operational and business outcomes. The Agriculture Analytics & Digital Enablement Lead plays a critical role in this transformation by translating data into actionable insights and embedding analytics, AI, and digital solutions into day-to-day agricultural decision-making across the farm-to-fork value chain.

This is a hands-on, business-facing leadership role focused on delivering measurable value through advanced analytics, predictive modeling, AI, and emerging technologies—working closely with growers, field teams, operations, manufacturing, storage, sustainability, and supply chain partners.

What You’ll Be Doing.

• Lead North America agriculture analytics, AI, and digital innovation initiatives, ensuring clear, measurable business value.
• Partner with growers, field teams, manufacturing, storage, sustainability, and supply chain stakeholders to identify and prioritize high-value analytics and digital use cases.
• Translate complex agricultural and operational challenges into actionable insights using advanced analytics, predictive models, AI, and emerging technologies.
• Build and maintain analytical products including dashboards, reports, and models to improve decision-making and operational performance.
• Define, standardize, and track key agriculture KPIs across regions to enable consistent performance monitoring.
• Drive data standardization, governance, quality, and adoption to enable scalable, trusted analytics.
• Embed analytics and digital solutions into daily workflows, operational rhythms, and decision forums to ensure adoption and impact.
• Evaluate, pilot, and scale emerging technologies that improve performance, sustainability, and innovation.
• Lead change management, training, and stakeholder engagement to drive adoption and value realization.

What You’ll Need To Be Successful.

• Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Engineering, Agriculture, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience delivering analytics, predictive modeling, AI/ML, digital enablement, or innovation initiatives in agriculture, supply chain, manufacturing, or operational environments.
• Proven ability to conduct business discovery and translate challenges into value-driven analytics, AI, or digital solutions.
• Hands-on experience with Power BI (or equivalent), SQL, Python or R, and AI/ML frameworks.
• Strong understanding of statistical, predictive, and AI/ML techniques and their application to real-world business problems.
• Experience working with multi-source data environments, system integrations, and digital platforms.
• Strong knowledge of data governance, data quality, and scalable analytics practices.
• Demonstrated ability to lead adoption, change management, and cross-functional stakeholder engagement.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to communicate insights, influence decisions, and deliver measurable outcomes.
• Willingness to travel up to 25% as required.

About The Team. This role is part of McCain’s North America Agriculture organization and works within a highly cross-functional environment spanning growers, field operations, manufacturing, storage, sustainability, and supply chain teams. The Agriculture Analytics & Digital Enablement Lead serves as a key connector between data, technology, and agricultural operations, helping the team move toward more predictive, insight-driven decisions. While the role does not have direct reports, it provides leadership through influence, execution, and change management at scale.

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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.

Compensation Package : $81,600.00 - $108,900.00 . CAD annually + Bonus Eligibility The above reflects the target compensation range for the position at the time of posting. Hiring compensation will be determined based on experience, skill set, education and training, and other organizational needs. This posting is for an existing vacancy. Benefits: At McCain, we’re on a mission to create a winning culture that puts employee safety and well-being at the heart of what we do, every day. We understand and appreciate that each person’s needs are unique and ensure our benefits & well-being programs reflect that. Employees are eligible for the following benefits: health coverage (medical, dental, vision, prescription drug), retirement savings benefits, and leave support including medical, family and bereavement. Well-being programs include vacation and holidays, company-supported volunteering time, and mental health resources. Coverages are aligned with country, provincial and state governing plans and can vary by work level, location and nature of the role. Additional benefit detail available during the application process. Your well-being matters to us, and we’re here to provide you with the necessary resources to support you in being your best self at work — and at home. 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: Agriculture

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

Company: McCain Foods (Canada)