Manager of Agriculture, Integrated Supply Chain

Manager of Agriculture, Integrated Supply Chain Position Title: Manager of Agriculture, Integrated Supply ChainPosition Type: Regular - Full-TimeRequisition ID: 39550 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 North American Agriculture team is accountable for ensuring adequate potato supply matched in volume and quality to our annual and monthly production plans. The Manager of Ag Integrated Supply Chain manages our potato positions and inventories, collaborates with Supply Chain and Manufacturing to balance our production plans with our raw material, builds our annual contract coverage proposals for leadership, and collaborates closely with our Field Managers and Schedulers to elevate concerns and opportunities through our short‑term and long‑term planning processes. This is an essential role representing Agriculture to our wider business, requiring an individual who is a self-starter, a confident public speaker, and capable of building effective cross‑functional relationships. Responsibilities Lead the capture and reporting of timely and accurate data to drive strategic decision making (monthly inventories, annual post-harvest bin sampling, etc.) Update the Monthly Potato Position Report by NA Plant Location, including specialty product categories such as wedges, Innovator, yellow flesh, Regen Fries, and more Develop tools and dashboards that automate our monthly reporting processes and generate insights; oversee the transition from Excel to PowerBI Represent Agriculture in our cross‑functional supply planning processes (both short term and long term) to ensure business decisions appropriately consider raw/grower costing and implications Build and maintain close cross‑functional relationships to solve challenges and take advantage of opportunities Lead capture and reporting of in‑season potato market intelligence including price, quality, and quantity of open market potatoes Manage Buy Orders application within applicable digital tools, ensuring purchases remain within set parameters for price and volume Manage regional and global reporting on potato markets, positions, crop development, and factory performance Lead weekly field team meetings focused on crop and storage processes; collaborate with our Transformation team to develop dashboards that allow us to generate insights Build our annual contract coverage proposal and support Field Teams in using category management tools to strategically allocate volume Participate as‑needed in long‑term network planning exercises and other strategic projects Quantify the value of Ag ISC projects that generate financial savings (called SCA at McCain) Support our Seed & Variety Team in aligning seed pipelines with long‑range commercial plans Qualifications Build strong cross‑functional partnerships with finance, manufacturing, and planning Drive data and communicate effectively to ensure business performance Standardize reporting processes and automate where appropriate Support delivery of annual coverage, forecast accuracy, and cost savings goals Bachelor’s degree and 3-5 years of relevant experience preferred Relevant working experience, preferably within agricultural, manufacturing, finance, or supply chain Excellent communication skills and ability to successfully influence internal and external parties Interpersonal skills, with a proven ability to develop and nurture strong cross‑functional and departmental relationships Confidence with Microsoft Office and willingness to learn PowerBI Strong problem‑solving skills Additional Information Location: This role has the flexibility to be based out of any of our NA corporate offices — Florenceville, New Brunswick; Toronto, Ontario; Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois, USA Travel: