Senior Analyst, Supply Planning Process

January 17 2025
Industries Food, Catering, Beverage
Categories Business Process Analyst,
Toronto, ON • Full time

Position Title: Senior Analyst, Supply Planning Process

Position Type: Regular - Full-Time ​

Position Location: Toronto HQ

Grade: Grade 05

Requisition ID: 33853

About McCain.

At McCain, we're feeding the world: from French fries to cakes, we contribute to the important role food plays in people's lives. That's why we're dedicated to ensuring our core values—Family, Authentic, Trusted, and Quality—shine through every day. As a privately owned family company with over 60 years of experience, a presence in more than 160 countries, and a global team of 22,000 people, our values and culture are at the heart of everything we do. We believe that we can work together, along with our business and community partners, to bring sustainable growth and positive change today, tomorrow, and for generations to come. Join us and see how you can MAKE IT at McCain!

Why join the McCain family.

  • Your Life - we're here to help you fulfil your potential, flourish, and thrive in work and life.
  • Your Success - work alongside passionate individuals who are committed to supporting your career ambitions, drive, and success.
  • Your Impact - we want you to make a meaningful, lasting impact for you, for your colleagues, and for the business.

McCain is a place where you can grow from the ground up, so join us and see how you can MAKE IT at McCain.


About the role.

In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and interested in helping each other create good work experiences. We think about the customer and make doing business with McCain easy.

As we embark on a strategic digital transformation journey, the role of Senior Analyst, Supply Planning Process will be pivotal in modernizing our supply chain capabilities across McCain Foods. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical skills, excellent attention to detail, and the ability to work collaboratively across departments.

Reporting to the Director of Supply Chain Planning Transformation, the successful candidate will represent the Supply Planning process throughout the implementation of best-in-class technology. The ideal candidate will be an experienced professional in this field and will work with the Supply Chain Planning Transformation team to link all solution design decisions to the globally consistent process. This critical team member will need to step in, roll up their sleeves, and get into the details of solution design and implementation. If you are ready to make a tangible impact on a global scale, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity to lead within one of the world's premier food companies.

Leadership Principles.

Our principles, each with related practices, guide our actions across the organization. Together, they address how McCain interacts with our customers and employees, and how we work as individuals and collectively to find success. While each role adheres to the Leadership Principles, individual roles may focus more on a specific principle or principles.

We are customer obsessed. Customers are our starting point. By understanding their needs and leveraging data and consumer insights, we drive mutual success.

We think big and plan ahead. Through ambition, curiosity, and smart risks, we can accomplish goals, refine processes, and innovate to scale success.

We bring out the best in our people. We create safe spaces for our people so that trust and empowerment come naturally. Inclusion is about listening first, showing humility, and working together.

We act like owners. Together, we clear obstacles and do the work that makes us all successful and proud to be part of McCain.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Conduct solution design activities across the supply planning space, including aggregate planning, master production scheduling, distribution planning, detailed scheduling, and inventory planning
  • Ensure adequate testing is completed for the entire supply planning solution
  • Bring internal perspectives, external benchmarks, and industry trends to solution design to create an industry-leading technology solution
  • Translate business requirements and priorities into user friendly system capabilities
  • Ensure alignment between ERP and planning technology solution design and the globally consistent S&OP process
  • Engage with global and regional supply planners and incorporate feedback into the overall solution design
  • Prioritize system usability and end user adoption in the design of the system

Required Experience and Knowledge:

  • Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, or a related field.
  • 3 years of supply chain planning or related experience
  • Experience with successful deployment of ERP and/or planning technology as a business SME (e.g., SAP, Oracle, Blue Yonder, Kinaxis, etc.)
  • Proficiency in supply chain management software and advanced Excel skills.
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities.
  • Experience with process improvement methodologies like Lean or Six Sigma is a plus.

This role can be based out of any of our NA Corporate offices -- Chicago, Toronto, or Florenceville, New Brunswick.

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.

The McCain experience.

We are McCain: this statement is about our power collectively and our importance individually—your impact is a significant part of the business. Our winning culture focuses on authenticity and trust so we can always bring out the best in our people. Here, you have the opportunity to learn, grow, and thrive while being yourself. Join our team to see why we're better together.

Compensation Package: $70,000.00 - $101,100.00 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/training, and other organizational needs.

Benefits: At McCain, we're on a mission to create a winning culture that puts employee safety and wellbeing at the heart of what we do, every day. We understand and appreciate that each person's needs are unique and ensure our benefits & wellbeing 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. Wellbeing programs include vacation and holidays, company-supported volunteering time, and mental health resources. Coverages are aligned to country, provincial and state governing plans and can vary by work level, location and nature of the role. Additional benefit details 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. 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.


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 meet your needs.


Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with the Global Employee Privacy Policy

Job Family: Supply Chain & Logistics
Division: Global Finance
Department: ​Supply Chain Transformation ​
Location(s): CA - Canada : Ontario : Toronto || CA - Canada : New Brunswick : Bathurst || CA - Canada : New Brunswick : Centreville || CA - Canada : New Brunswick : Edmundston || CA - Canada : New Brunswick : Florenceville-Bristol || CA - Canada : New Brunswick : Fredericton || CA - Canada : New Brunswick : Grand Falls || CA - Canada : New Brunswick : Hartland || CA - Canada : New Brunswick : Moncton || CA - Canada : New Brunswick : Saint John || CA - Canada : New Brunswick : Somerville || 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)

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