Job Description

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Position Title: Strategic Workforce Planning Analyst
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time ?
Requisition ID: 40129
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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.
Reporting to the Director, Global Rewards, the Strategic Workforce Planning Analyst plays a key role in enabling enterprise growth through data-driven workforce insights and forward-looking people strategies. This role is responsible for supporting the development and execution of McCain's global workforce planning approach, ensuring alignment between business strategy, talent demand, and organizational capability needs.
The incumbent will contribute analytical expertise and strategic insight to assess current and future workforce requirements, identify risks and opportunities related to capacity, capability, and cost, and support scenario planning across the enterprise. Working in close partnership with HR, Finance, and business leaders, the role will help translate growth and transformation priorities into actionable workforce plans, standardized tools, and scalable planning processes. The Strategic Workforce Planning Analyst will support consistency across regions while enabling flexibility to meet local market needs, ultimately driving operational efficiency, organizational health, and long-term value creation across functions and geographies. This is an existing vacancy for McCain which is actively seeking to be hired.
What you'll be doing.

• Review and assess organizational structure and headcount change requests submitted by regions and functions, ensuring alignment with approved workforce plans, governance standards, and enterprise priorities.

• Analyze the financial implications of workforce changes, including headcount additions, role redesigns, grade changes, and reporting structure adjustments, partnering closely with Finance to evaluate cost impacts, savings erosion, and budget alignment.

• Own data preparation, validation, and reconciliation across HR and Finance data sources to ensure accuracy and consistency of workforce planning inputs and outputs

• Identify opportunities for efficiency, standardization, and role optimization across regions by assessing span of control, layers, duplication of roles, and capability alignment.

• Support regular workforce planning and governance cadences (e.g., monthly tracking, quarterly outlooks, annual planning) by preparing materials, analyses, and reporting

• Provide data-driven insights and recommendations to senior HR and business leaders to inform decision-making on organizational design, workforce investments, and trade-offs.

• Enable consistency across regions through scalable tools, frameworks, and analytics, while recognizing local market considerations and regulatory requirements.

• Track and report workforce metrics (e.g., headcount, cost, productivity indicators, organizational health metrics) to monitor trends, risks, and progress against planning assumptions.

• Partner with HRBPs, COEs, and regional leaders to support disciplined workforce planning practices and reinforce enterprise-wide governance.

• Support stakeholder understanding of workforce data, assumptions, and trade-offs by contributing to clear materials, templates, and documentation

• Contribute to continuous improvement of workforce planning processes, including documentation, controls, and cadence, to strengthen transparency, speed, and decision quality.

What you'll need to be successful.

• Bachelor's degree in business, Finance, Analytics, Human Resources, or a related field

• Strong analytical and quantitative skills, with demonstrated experience translating complex data into clear insights and actionable recommendations

• Intermediate proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including financial modeling, scenario analysis, and use of complex formulas (e.g., VLOOKUP, XLOOKUP, pivot tables, Power Query)

• Experience analyzing headcount, workforce cost, and organizational structure data, preferably in a large, matrixed or global organization

• Strong business acumen with the ability to understand financial implications of workforce decisions and partner effectively with Finance

• Ability to work with ambiguity and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, transformation-oriented environment

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present insights clearly to HR and business stakeholders

• High attention to detail, strong governance mindset, and a commitment to data accuracy and integrity

• Working knowledge of HR systems is beneficial, particularly SAP and SuccessFactors

• Proficiency in Power BI (or similar data visualization tools), including building dashboards, data modeling, and storytelling with data is an asset

About McCain.
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.
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.
Compensation Package: $58,800.00 - $78,500.00 . CAD annually + Bonus 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 , 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)

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