Senior Director, Global HR Business Partner - Digital Technology

Position Title: Senior Director, Global HR Business Partner - Digital Technology
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Position Location: Toronto HQ
Grade: Grade 07
Requisition ID: 38147
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.
Based in Toronto, the Senior Director, HR Business Partner, will serve as the strategic HR leader for McCain's Global Digital Technology function. Acting as a trusted advisor to senior executives, this individual will shape and execute the people agenda that supports digital transformation, organizational capability building, and global talent strategies.
The successful candidate will combine deep HR expertise with strong business acumen, enabling Technology leaders to accelerate change, enhance leadership effectiveness, and future-proof the organization.
What you'll be doing.
Strategic Business Partnership

• Act as a thought partner to senior technology executives, deeply embedding in the business to influence strategy and execution.
• Build trusted, confidential relationships that enable candid coaching and challenge, ensuring the function continues to evolve and scale.

Talent, Leadership & Succession

• Lead global talent and workforce planning initiatives, ensuring pipeline readiness for critical and senior roles.
• Drive succession planning and talent acceleration strategies aligned with McCain's growth and digital agenda.
• Shape leadership behaviors through coaching, feedback, and development initiatives that elevate organizational performance.

Organizational Design & Change

• Design and implement structures that enable agility, collaboration, and growth within the Technology function.
• Provide expert advice on large-scale organizational change and transformation, ensuring alignment with business priorities.
• Champion robust change management practices to sustain adoption and long-term success.

Culture & Capability Building

• Partner with business leaders to embed a high-performance culture rooted in McCain's Leadership Model.
• Elevate digital acumen across the function, integrating metrics, measurement, and accountability into performance systems.
• Translate people insights into actionable strategies that enhance employee engagement, inclusion, and retention.

People Leadership

• Lead and develop a small HRBP team (2 direct reports), fostering growth and capability

Operational Excellence

• Lead HRBP operations with a balance of strategic foresight and hands-on execution.
• Drive consistency, compliance, and excellence across employee relations, HR processes, and people analytics.

What you'll need to be successful.

• 10+ years in HR leadership, with strong experience supporting Technology or Digital functions globally
• Proven track record leading organizational change, transformation, and talent strategy
• Strong executive presence, coaching skills, and ability to influence at the most senior levels

• Data-driven mindset with experience leveraging people analytics for better decisions

• Bachelor's degree in HR, Business, or related field (master's preferred); HR or coaching certifications an asset

About McCain .
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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.
Our purpose is grounded in building meaningful relationships. We're big believers in the power of working together in person-it helps us stay connected, collaborate more effectively, and grow as a team. At the same time, we recognize the importance of flexibility. Most office-based roles follow a hybrid model, with the option to work remotely two days a week. There may be exceptions depending on the role and location, so we encourage you to speak with your recruiter for more details.
Compensation Package : $165,000.00 - $220,000.00 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.
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.
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Job Family: Human Resources
Location(s): CA - Canada : Ontario : Toronto || CA - Canada : New Brunswick : Florenceville-Bristol
Company: McCain Foods (Canada)