Position Title: Sr Manager R&D Packaging & SCA NAPosition Type: Regular - Full-TimeGrade: Grade 06Requisition ID: 43018In 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 RoleThis role is responsible for developing and executing the North America (NA) Potato Value Engineering (VE) pipeline and the NA Potato and Apps Packaging R&D agenda. It drives identification, development, and implementation of cost and value solutions across ingredients, packaging, and processes. The role also provides site-level R&D leadership for Florenceville, ensuring safe, efficient operations and strong integration of product, packaging, and process to deliver scalable, high-quality outcomes.What You’ll Be DoingDevelop and execute the NA VE pipeline from ideation through commercialization, delivering annual cost savings targetsLead complex, high-value initiatives, ensuring strong business cases, technical readiness, and sustainable resultsPartner cross-functionally with Procurement, Manufacturing, Technical Operations, Sales, Marketing, and Finance to generate and prioritize opportunitiesCollaborate with ingredient and packaging suppliers to unlock cost, performance, and innovation benefitsRepresent Value Engineering in capital planning and investment discussionsDefine and deliver the R&D packaging agenda, balancing cost, quality, performance, sustainability, and simplificationLead and develop a packaging and ingredient team, driving delivery of scalable solutions aligned to business needsDrive standardization, specification alignment, and continuous performance improvementProvide R&D site leadership for Florenceville, ensuring safe operations, trial readiness,



and successful scale-up to manufacturingEmbed disciplined ways of working across trials, development, and commercialization, including governance and tracking of VE value realizationWhat You’ll Need To Be Successful7–10 years of R&D experience in consumer goods (food industry preferred)Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related fieldExperience across innovation, commercialization, and manufacturing environmentsStrong project management and cross-functional leadership capabilitiesStrong business acumen, communication, and stakeholder influencing skillsDeep understanding of product, packaging, and manufacturing processesProven experience supporting scale-up and plant implementationMulti-disciplinary expertise across ingredients, packaging, and process integrationProcess engineering capability for troubleshooting and pilot/plant supportDemonstrated ability to build technical capability and drive execution discipline across teamsAbout The TeamYou will lead a team of approximately 7 R&D professionals focused on packaging and ingredient solutions. The team plays a critical role in delivering value engineering initiatives and packaging innovation across North America, working closely with cross-functional partners and manufacturing sites, with a strong connection to the Florenceville R&D and production environment.Leadership PrinciplesUnderstanding customer needsDriving innovationEmpowering peopleTaking ownership to deliver resultsThe McCain ExperienceAt McCain, you’ll be part of a collaborative, high-performing team where innovation,



accountability, and continuous improvement are at the core of how we work. We foster an inclusive environment that supports personal and qualified growth, encourages curiosity, and empowers individuals to make meaningful contributions. Our flexible and hybrid work approach enables balance while ensuring strong connection and collaboration across teams.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: Research & DevelopmentDivision: Global Research and DevelopmentDepartment: RnD Potato NAM and LATAMLocation(s): CA - Canada : New Brunswick : Florenceville-Bristol || CA - Canada : Ontario : TorontoCompany: McCain Foods (Canada)#J-18808-Ljbffr

📌 Sr Manager R&D Packaging & Sca Na (Florenceville-Bristol)
🏢 McCain Foods
📍 Florenceville-Bristol