Position Title: Senior Manager, Learning Advisory
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Requisition ID: 43305
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.
McCain's Global Learning Centre of Excellence (COE) is looking for a Senior Manager, Learning Advisory, to be the primary L&D partner for assigned global business functions. In this role you act like an owner - working backwards from business strategy to close the gap between where our people are today and where the business needs them to be. This is a consulting and advisory role, not a training delivery role.
What you’ll be doing.
1. Act as the Strategic L&D Partner for Assigned Functions
Serve as the primary L&D contact for assigned global functions
- - listen first, build trust, and have the courage to challenge thinking and push boundaries with senior leaders.
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Leverage data and insights to diagnose capability needs and translate business priorities into clear learning and development plans.
Think big - - bring bold ideas that challenge the status quo and help leaders build future-ready teams.
2. Build and Deliver Capability Plans
Develop ambitious, multi-year capability goals with functional leaders
- - paired with clear actions and plans to make them happen.
Shift functions from one-off training toward continuous, skills-first development - - embracing a 'fail fast and learn' mindset when approaches need to change.
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Commission and oversee learning program design in partnership within the COE, using blended, digital, and AI-enabled approaches.
3. Apply a Performance Consulting Approach
Dig in to diagnose root causes of performance and capability gaps before recommending solutions
- - the answer is not always training.
Facilitate structured needs analysis with leaders, HRBPs, and subject matter experts - - invite diverse perspectives and surface the real issues.
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Define success metrics upfront; measure impact against business outcomes, not activity completion.
4. Manage the Learning Portfolio
Own the learning portfolio for assigned functions
- - relentlessly prioritize what delivers the greatest impact and have the courage to say no to the rest.
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Partner with the COE to oversee program quality, vendor management, and delivery.
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Report capability impact to leadership and functional stakeholders, using data and insights to drive continuous improvement.
5. Collaborate Across the COE and People Function
Take ownership across boundaries
- - partner with HRBPs, Talent Management and global functional leaders to connect capability planning to broader talent strategy.
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Share business intelligence and stakeholder insights to strengthen COE priorities, tools, and methodologies.
Model a coaching mindset - - ask questions, empower others, and build a culture of curiosity and continuous improvement.
Act as the COE's liaison for AI Enablement - - ensuring learning strategy stays aligned with the Digital Technology team, Commercial functions, and the AI Enablement team.
What you’ll need to be successful.
Required Experience & Background
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7+ years in Learning & Development, with experience in a strategic, business-facing advisory capacity.
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Track record building capability frameworks and multi-year learning plans aligned to business strategy.
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Experience as a trusted advisor to senior leaders in a large, complex, matrixed organization.
Demonstrated use of performance consulting methodology - - root-cause diagnosis, needs analysis, evidence-based solution design.
Proven experience working in a global, multi-region environment - - navigating regional nuances, aligning multiple markets, and driving consistent standards across geographies.
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Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree or professional certification in L&D, HR, or OD is preferred.
Required Skills & Capabilities
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Performance consulting and structured needs analysis.
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Capability framework design and skills architecture.
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Senior stakeholder management and influencing without authority.
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Exceptional relationship-building and influencing capability.
Confident influencing senior and executive stakeholders - - able to challenge thinking and hold a position even when it's not the popular view.
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Ability to manage multiple priorities, navigate ambiguity, and operate independently.
Business acumen - - understanding how operational organizations create value.
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Comfortable operating across multiple time zones, with experience supporting globally distributed teams and stakeholders.
Data literacy - - using learning analytics to inform decisions and demonstrate impact.
A 'how we can' mindset - - curious, adaptable, and able to build structure in evolving environments.
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Familiarity with modern learning platforms, digital tools, and AI-enabled development approaches.
Success in This Role Looks Like
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Business leaders seek out the COE as a strategic partner, not a service provider.
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Functions have clear, ambitious capability plans tied directly to business outcomes.
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Learning investments are measurable, prioritized, and linked to real performance improvement.
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The Global L&D COE is recognized as a high-impact, trusted function that helps McCain win.
About McCain.
Click Here 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: $107,600.00 - $143,500.00 . 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. This posting is for an existing vacancy.
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 applicable law 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
Company: McCain Foods (Canada)
