The Opportunity:

As the Manager, Talent Acquisition, you will lead a team of Recruiters supporting Maple Leaf Foods across Manufacturing, Commercial, and Corporate functions. Reporting to the Director, Talent Acquisition, you will strengthen how we attract, assess, and hire talent while building consistent, high-quality recruitment practices across the business.

This is a hands‑on leadership role with an enterprise scope. You will personally lead Director and Vice President searches, deepen SmartRecruiters adoption and optimization, elevate candidate and hiring leader experiences, strengthen recruiter capability, amplify our employer brand, and use data, technology, and AI to improve decisions and outcomes. You will bring strong judgment, operational excellence, and partnership to a complex role that spans across multiple locations, functions, and job levels.

Reason for vacancy: Existing Headcount

Compensation:$96,000 - $141,000 CAD base pay annually plus annual short-term incentive

The above compensation reflects the target compensation for the position at the time of posting. The base salary offered may vary based on a variety of factors including skills, experience, education, training, job- related knowledge, and other organizational requirements. For part‑time roles, salaries are adjusted according to scheduled hours.In addition to base salary, this role is eligible to participate in Maple Leaf’s annual short-term incentive plan.

Snapshot of a Day-in-the-Life:

- Lead and Develop the Talent Acquisition Team: Coach, engage and develop Recruiters across all lines of business. Set explicit priorities, strengthen accountability, balance workloads, and create meaningful opportunities for skill growth and career development.
- Own Executive Recruitment:



Lead end-to-end recruitment for Director and Vice President roles, including market research, direct sourcing, assessment, candidate presentation, interview management, references, approvals, offer negotiation, and pre‑boarding. Advise senior leaders with confidence, discretion, and sound market insight, ensuring thorough evaluation of candidates against the Maple Leaf Foods Leadership Values.
- Drive SmartRecruiters Adoption: Champion consistent use of SmartRecruiters across Talent Acquisition, HR and functional teams. Enable hiring leaders and other users to complete interview feedback, requisition and offer approvals, candidate reviews, and required hiring activities accurately and on time.
- Foster AI Enablement and Adoption: Build responsible AI fluency across the recruitment team and embed approved AI‑enabled tools into sourcing, candidate prioritization, screening support, communications, market research, and recruitment insights.
- Elevate the Candidate and Hiring Leader Experience: Define and reinforce transparent experience standards from intake through offer and pre‑boarding. Monitor communication, timeliness, accessibility, and consistency, and resolve issues quickly when the experience falls short.
- Strengthen Recruiter Capability: Build recruiter skill in strategic sourcing, intake and advisory conversations, inclusive assessment,



executive search, talent mapping, negotiation, storytelling, technology, AI, and data fluency.
- Amplify the Employer Brand: Partner with Communications, Marketing, business leaders, and external partners to bring the Maple Leaf Foods employee value proposition to life across campaigns, talent communities, events, careers content, and recruiter outreach.
- Deliver Actionable Reporting and Insights: Own Talent Acquisition and functional reporting within SmartRecruiters. Establish reliable dashboards, scorecards, and operating routines that give Recruiters, HR, and business leaders visibility into hiring activity.
- Partner Across the Business: Build trusted relationships with HR leaders, hiring leaders and functional partners across Manufacturing, Commercial and Corporate teams.
- Manage Priorities, Partners and Investment: Allocate team capacity against business priorities, oversee selected vendors and external search partners, and monitor spend and service quality.
- Champion Continuous Improvement: Track feedback, recruitment metrics, market developments, and emerging practices.

What You’ll Bring:

- Talent Acquisition Leadership: Progressive Talent Acquisition experience across multiple functions or business groups, with demonstrated and recurring success leading, coaching, and developing Recruiters in a complex environment.
- Executive Recruitment: Deep expertise delivering Director and Vice President searches, including direct sourcing, candidate assessment, complex offer management, and trusted partnership with senior and executive leaders.
- Technology and Change Leadership: Experience leading adoption, governance, or continuous imp

📌 Manager, Talent Acquisition Mississauga
🏢 Maple Leaf Foods
📍 Mississauga