Job Description

The Opportunity: We\'re cooking up something from scratch at Maple Leaf Foods. Prepared Meats, International is a new business unit with the support system of our broader organization. We\'re expanding our horizons beyond continental North America and entering new markets. Our work is exciting, ever-changing, and rapidly expanding. Keen to own your business, think and act globally, and bring your whole self to work every day? We\'re keen too!

Reporting to the Sales Director, Prepared Meats International, this driven and self-starting Manager - International Commercialization and Portfolio Strategy will lead the development of our portfolio and drive business success across an array of prepared meats categories. With market focuses on Latin America, the Caribbean, and Asia (primarily China, Japan, South Korea), this individual is tasked with thinking and acting at global scale, while demonstrating local Maple Leaf Foods expertise.

This role will oversee and lead the Prepared Meats global portfolio and trade, marketing, and export access execution by leading the agenda identified to grow our presence in foreign markets. This role will work closely with the immediate Prepared Meats, International team (Sales Director, Finance Manager, Sr Commercial Execution Manager, Regulatory Manager) and engage frequently with the broader Maple Leaf Foods cross-functional team. The role requires a strong strategic mindset and agile approach to help the team focus its efforts where the rewards will be the greatest.

Snapshot of a Day-in-the-Life:

• Lead our international prepared meats product and portfolio strategy, leveraging your expertise across, sales, marketing, category, and product development marrying our MLF capabilities with the needs of foreign markets while mindful of competitive dynamics:

• Defining product and portfolio spec and positioning
• International brand management, positioning, and execution
• Identifying and assessing sources of product advantage (raw material, manufacturing, etc.)
• Managing Trademark requirements with legal
• Commercial country/entry market access requirements leader: Develop strong understanding and enablement of country-specific commercial market access requirements
• Leverage your marketing expertise to develop new products and bring items through the setup funnel, from product formulation to claims-making, to pack design
• Oversight of export paperwork, samples, and customer setup execution to enable commercial fluidity
• Sales collateral and strategy leader: support Sales Director with sales, marketing, and brand materials
• Engage in special projects as required to enable success of this new business unit (exploring innovative ways to increase our competitiveness in global marketplace, traditional sales strategy workstreams and 5P analysis, etc.)
• As our business grows, this function may offer customer-facing, customer-P&L, and oversees brand ownership oversight

What You\'ll Bring:

• A strong track record of sales, marketing, sales strategy, commercial execution, or project management results within a CPG environment, with strong P&L and project management understanding and change management ownership
• A bias for proactivity, action, speed, and performance
• Confidence in speaking up to hold others\' accountable to lead cross-functional teams and deliver on timelines
• Exhibition of disciplined decision-making and highly structured planning and documentation acumen
• A passion for business ownership, embodying the thinking that you \xe2\x80\x9cown your business\xe2\x80\x9d
• Cross-culturally aware and excitement to engage with individuals in foreign cultures and markets
• A passion for developing complex processes and scaling them up
• A strong team player and able to guide cross-functional team members to be pragmatic and efficient
• Demonstrated ability to manage numerous workstreams consecutively
• Competency requirements:

• Commercial Acumen and P&L Management - Solid understanding of key drivers of a P&L statement with ability to recommend changes required to move the business forward.
• Project management - ability to plan and track projects through proactivity and diligence, while managing cross-functional team members
• Business Understanding and Insights - Demonstrates the ability to understand, manipulate and draw conclusions from internal & external data sources.
• Sales Knowledge & Connectivity - Demonstrates understanding of customer strategies and motivations and applies to marketing planning process & initiative execution.
• Strategic Leadership - Demonstrates big picture thinking with an ability to clearly articulate a strategic direction, justified with sound fact-based rationale. Sells ideas and recommendations through to management convincingly.

Assets you could bring

• Competency in one or more of the following languages: Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese
• International compliance, regulatory, import/export, and trade experience
• Experience working with perishable CPG categories, ideally meat
• Prior people management experience
• Project management certifications/designations
• Experience building a business from scratch and/or managing complex executions

What We Offer at Maple Leaf Foods:

• Being part of a high-performance, people-focused company that has an inspiring and unique vision to become the most sustainable protein company on earth, and a deep commitment to sustainable protein across North America.
• An inclusive company culture and a work environment that keeps our people safe, rewards excellence, and empowers everyone to learn and contribute their best.
• A hybrid work model that embraces remote work for eligible roles, helping team members achieve work-life balance-combining the best of both spending time working remotely, benefitting from focus time, and purposeful collaboration in the office setting.
• Competitive Health and Wellness benefits that offer flexibility to meet your individual or family needs, including programs focused on improving mental health and wellbeing. These benefits start on your first day of employment.
• Defined Contribution Pension Plan with company matching that starts on your first day of employment.
• Learning and development opportunities, including workshops, \'speaker series\' events, and resources that allow you to develop your skills and progress your career.
• Comprehensive tuition reimbursement program that supports continuous learning and development of our team members through investment in eligible degrees, diplomas, professional certification, or trades programs.
• Supporting our deep commitment to community impact, we offer up to two paid days annually to volunteer at a cause of your choice.

About Us: We\'re a carbon neutral food company on a purposeful journey to Raise the Good in Food through better nutrition, safer food and workplaces, more humane animal care, and environmental sustainability efforts that protect our planet. We care about our communities and commit to reducing food insecurity in Canada. Join us on the journey. Let\'s build a better future, together.

We\'re passionate about food. For more than 100 years, we\'ve made delicious, healthy protein that Canadians love under iconic national and regional brands, like Maple Leaf\xc2\xae, Schneiders\xc2\xae, and Greenfield Natural Meat Co.\xc2\xae We\'re on a journey to become the most sustainable protein company - not just in Canada - but on earth.

• We are carbon neutral.
• We are one of the only food companies in Canada to set science-based targets.
• We aim to reduce our environmental footprint by 50% by 2025.

We\'re a global food company with more than 13,500 team members. We operate sites in 20+ locations across Canada. We also have locations in the U.S. and Mexico, and do business in Asia.

A diverse and inclusive work environment Championing diversity and inclusion is a critical component to advancing our collective purpose and vision and living the Maple Leaf Leadership Values. We believe in building, investing in, recognizing, and rewarding remarkable people who value an inclusive workplace, embrace all forms of diversity, and commit to including every voice in our collaborative environment. We\'re so much stronger when we know we\'re accepted and valued for who we are and what we each bring to the workplace.

We embrace a strong, values-based culture Our eight Leadership Values are our north star. They guide the decisions we make for all our stakeholders: our consumers, our customers, our people, our communities, our shareholders, and the environment.

• Doing What\'s Right
• Shared Value
• High Performance
• Diverse and Inclusive Teams
• Disciplined Decision Making
• Our Accountability
• Intense Curiosity
• Transparency and Humility

Maple Leaf Foods is committed to ensuring the health and safety of all our employees. As part of this commitment, we have adopted a number of COVID-19 safety measures, including a requirement for all employees to be fully vaccinated by March 31, 2022 and to show proof of vaccination. In keeping with this policy, successful candidates will need to provide proof of vaccination by March 31, 2022 (or prior to their first day of work if the start date is after March 31, 2022). We will of course consider accommodations for anyone unable to be vaccinated following human rights and other applicable laws
We thank all applicants for their interest in exploring employment opportunities with Maple Leaf Foods; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted. Applicants may be subject to a background check and must meet the security criteria designated for the position.
Championing diversity and inclusion is a critical component to advancing our collective purpose and vision, living the Maple Leaf Leadership Values, and delivering winning results. Accommodation is available upon request for applicants with disabilities in the recruitment and assessment process and when hired; please contact our Talent Attraction Team at .

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