Digital Systems & Data Advisor

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Position Title: Digital Systems & Data Advisor

Position Type: Regular - Full-Time ​

Grade: Grade 05

Requisition ID: 44803

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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.

The Digital Systems & Data Advisor is a six-month temporary contract position within Global R&D Operational Excellence. This role provides hands-on support to strengthen data integrity, system performance, reporting capabilities, integration readiness, and user enablement across Global R&D specification and digital platforms. By delivering operational execution and issue resolution, the role helps ensure permanent team members remain focused on strategic transformation, governance, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Success in this role will be measured through improved data quality, reduced system and reporting backlogs, successful integration testing and validation, enhanced documentation, and stronger user adoption and support.

What you’ll be doing.

• Support specification management and master data quality activities across Global R&D platforms.
• Monitor, analyze, triage, and help resolve data quality issues while identifying root causes and corrective actions.
• Provide system administration support including user access management, troubleshooting, and defined service activities.
• Execute integration validation, data mapping reviews, testing activities, and issue tracking for connected systems.
• Develop, maintain, and enhance reports, dashboards, KPI tracking, and data quality monitoring solutions.
• Create and update standard operating procedures (SOPs), work instructions, training materials, and knowledge articles.
• Partner with R&D, Quality, Regulatory, Packaging, Procurement, IT, and other stakeholders to coordinate activities and drive issue resolution.
• Utilize AI-enabled tools, including Microsoft Copilot, to improve documentation, analysis, reporting, and operational efficiency.
• Identify recurring issues, conduct root-cause analysis, and recommend practical process and system improvements.
• Support user enablement and adoption activities while providing responsive and customer-focused support.

What you’ll need to be successful.

• Degree in data, business systems, operations, science, engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with exceptional attention to detail.
• Experience working with business data, reporting, analytics, or digital systems.
• Ability to independently manage priorities, execute defined workstreams, and communicate progress effectively.
• Strong written communication skills with the ability to translate technical information into practical business language.
• Collaborative and customer-focused mindset with the ability to work effectively across functions and geographies.
• Experience with PLM, ERP, specification management, quality, or master data platforms is an asset.
• Experience using Power BI, Databricks, Excel, or similar reporting and analytics tools is preferred.
• Experience supporting system testing, integration validation, process documentation, or continuous improvement initiatives is preferred.
• Familiarity with AI-enabled productivity tools and data governance practices is advantageous.

About the team.

The Digital Systems & Data Advisor is part of the Global R&D Operational Excellence team and reports to the Global Specifications / Digital Systems Lead. The team is responsible for enabling effective specification management, data quality, digital system performance, and process excellence across Global R&D. This role provides critical delivery capacity, ensuring operational excellence activities are executed efficiently while supporting enterprise transformation goals. Strategic ownership, governance decisions, and long-term process and system accountability remain with McCain leadership.

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.

AI & Digital Capabilities.

At McCain, AI and digital capabilities are part of how we work and innovate. We value curiosity toward emerging technologies and the thoughtful, responsible use of AI-enabled tools to improve outcomes as part of our future-ready culture.

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: $81,600.00 - $108,900.00 . CAD annual base salary equivalency, paid in alignment to contract term

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. Should this role hold a duration 12 months or longer, you will be eligible for our full benefits suite. This includes 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.

Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with McCain’s Global Privacy Policy and Global Employee Privacy Policy, as applicable. McCain leverages AI in the hiring process, though all final decisions are made by humans. You can understand our approach to AI and how your personal information is being handled here.

Job Family: Research & Development
Location(s): CA - Canada : Ontario : Toronto

Company: McCain Foods (Canada)