Director, AI Workforce Transformation

Position Title: Director AI Workforce Transformation

Position Type: Regular - Full-Time

Requisition ID:44448

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.

Technology is advancing faster than roles skills and ways of workingcreating a growing AI productivity and skills gap across organizations. At McCain closing this gap requires more than tools or communications; it requires a fundamental shift in how work is designed how roles and skills evolve how managers lead and how employees safely adapt.

Reporting to the VP Global Communications & Change The Director AI Workforce Transformation is accountable for shaping and driving McCains enterprise AI workforce transformation agenda. This role designs and enables the behavioral cultural and leadership shifts required for sustainable AI adoption placing people at the center of reinvention.

This is an organizational development culture and change leadership role ensuring McCain builds the skills mindset and change agility needed to thrive in a continuous-transformation environment.

What youll be doing.

1. Lead Enterprise AI Workforce Transformation Strategy

• Partnering with the VP of AI and VP Communications & Change you will design and lead McCains enterprise-wide AI Workforce Transformation strategy. Through an integrated Communication Change and Learning strategy you will focus on realizing value through tool adoption workflow redesign and high value use case implementation.
• Establish integrated working rhythms with key stakeholders across Digital Technology and HR to ensure alignment and cohesion in this fast-changing and dynamic agenda.
• In partnership with Organizational Development champion enterprise-wide AI fluency building baseline AI capability and confidence across all levels of the organization through an ongoing learning strategy.

2. Redesign Work for an AI-Enabled Organization

• Develop a repeatable approach for identifying where AI can simplify augment or fundamentally redesign how work gets done.
• Partner with functions and business teams to understand current-state workflows and design future-state human AI ways of working.
• Help leaders move beyond automating existing tasks to rethinking processes responsibilities and decision-making.
• Support the AI Accelerator in assessing Use Cases ensuring that Change Impacts are assessed with the appropriate level of change support identified
• Continue to evolve the enterprise KPI framework for AI adoption and workforce ensuring value not just adoption is tracked and reported.

3. Build People Leader Capability

• Redefine manager capability for an AI-enabled organization including:
  • Leading teams through role and task redesign
  • Adopting new work practices and workflows while embedding McCain ways of working
  • Coaching employees through change and skill shifts
• Embed psychological safety accountability and trust into leadership expectations team norms and ways of working.
• Embed transformation capability at the team level recognizing it as the true engine of AI innovation and adoption.
• Use continuous listening and sentiment insight to help managers spot emerging needs and adjust support in real time.

4. Foster AI Transparency Across the Enterprise

• Champion enterprise standards for AI transparency responsible use and open dialogue.
• Partner with Communications to ensure leaders clearly communicate:
• How AI is being used at McCain and why
• What it means for McCainers their work and roles
• What guardrails and expectations exist
• Address employee concerns directly creating the trust and psychological safety required for confident adoption.

5. Help Build Change Agility as a Core Organizational Capability

• Work closely with Change Enablement to operationalize change agility as a core capability across the enterprise.
• Enable leaders teams and individuals to adapt quickly to ongoing transformation ambiguity and evolving ways of working.
• Partner across HR Technology and all functions and regions to ensure change capability is built as part of the every day way we work not treated as a one-time intervention.

What youll need to be successful.

Required Experience & Background

• 812 years of experience in organizational development workforce transformation enterprise change or culture transformation
• Proven leadership of enterprise-scale technology or digital transformation across a global organization
• Experience working with senior leaders and managers in highly complex matrixed environments
  
  

Required Skills & Capabilities

• Experience designing manager-facing leadership or enablement and development programs that drive real behavior change
• Deep expertise in human-centered change methodologies (e.g. Prosci or equivalent) with the ability to evolve them for continuous change
• Strong facilitation coaching and storytelling skills; credible with executives managers and frontline employees
• Demonstrated ability to shape culture behaviors and leadership practicesnot just deliver change plans
• Familiarity with AI and workforce implications; a trusted informed voice on the human side of AI with clear demonstration of AI personal adoption
• Experience with skills-based workforce planning skills taxonomies or data-driven skills-gap analysis to inform role and capability redesign
• Working knowledge of AI governance and responsible AI principles with the ability to translate them into practical guardrails for teams

Leadership Attributes

• Systems thinker who understands the interplay between strategy technology work design culture and capability
• Comfortable operating amid ambiguity and rapid change
• Influential leader who builds trust momentum and alignment across functions
• Passionate about empowering managers as the frontline leaders of transformation

About McCain.

Click Here to learn more about McCain and how we provide you with opportunities to make an impact that matters.

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.

AI & Digital Capabilities

At McCain AI and digital capabilities are part of how we work and innovate. We value curiosity toward emerging technologies and the thoughtful responsible use of AI-enabled tools to improve outcomes as part of our future-ready culture

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 youll find opportunities to learn grow and thrive. Join us and experience why were better together.

Compensation Package:$146200.00 -$195000.00 . CAD annually Bonus eligibility Long-term incentive 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 were 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 persons 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 programsinclude vacation and holidays company-supported volunteering time and mental health resources. Coverages are aligned with applicable law 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 were here to provide you with the necessary resourcesto 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 torace 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.

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Job Family:Communications
Location(s): CA - Canada : Ontario : Toronto

Company: McCain Foods (Canada)