Manager, Talent Acquisition

The Opportunity:

As the Manager, Talent Acquisition, you will lead a team of Recruiters supporting Maple Leaf Foods across Manufacturing, Commercial, and Corporate functions. Reporting to the Director, Talent Acquisition, you will strengthen how we attract, assess, and hire talent while building consistent, high-quality recruitment practices across the business.

This is a hands-on leadership role with an enterprise scope. You will personally lead Director and Vice President searches, deepen SmartRecruiters adoption and optimization, elevate candidate and hiring leader experiences, strengthen recruiter capability, amplify our employer brand, and use data, technology, and AI to improve decisions and outcomes. You will bring strong judgment, operational excellence, and partnership to a complex role that spans across multiple locations, functions, and job levels.

Any MLF team member interested in being considered for this role are encouraged to apply online by October 28. Applications received beyond that date are not guaranteed consideration.

Reason for vacancy: Existing Headcount
Compensation: $96,000 - $141,000 CAD base pay annually plus annual short-term incentive

The above compensation reflects the target compensation for the position at the time of posting. The base salary offered may vary based on a variety of factors including skills, experience, education, training, job- related knowledge, and other organizational requirements. For part-time roles, salaries are adjusted according to scheduled hours. In addition to base salary, this role is eligible to participate in Maple Leaf’s annual short-term incentive plan.

Snapshot of a Day-in-the-Life:

• Lead and Develop the Talent Acquisition Team: Coach, engage and develop Recruiters across all lines of business. Set clear priorities, strengthen accountability, balance workloads, and create meaningful opportunities for skill growth and career development.
• Own Executive Recruitment: Lead end-to-end recruitment for Director and Vice President roles, including market research, direct sourcing, assessment, candidate presentation, interview management, references, approvals, offer negotiation, and pre-boarding. Advise senior leaders with confidence, discretion, and sound market insight, ensuring thorough evaluation of candidates against the Maple Leaf Foods Leadership Values.
• Drive SmartRecruiters Adoption: Champion consistent use of SmartRecruiters across Talent Acquisition, HR and functional teams. Enable hiring leaders and other users to complete interview feedback, requisition and offer approvals, candidate reviews, and required hiring activities accurately and on time.
• Foster AI Enablement and Adoption: Build responsible AI fluency across the recruitment team and embed approved AI-enabled tools into sourcing, candidate prioritization, screening support, communications, market research, and recruitment insights.
• Elevate the Candidate and Hiring Leader Experience: Define and reinforce clear experience standards from intake through offer and pre-boarding. Monitor communication, timeliness, accessibility, and consistency, and resolve issues quickly when the experience falls short.
• Strengthen Recruiter Capability: Build recruiter skill in strategic sourcing, intake and advisory conversations, inclusive assessment, executive search, talent mapping, negotiation, storytelling, technology, AI, and data fluency.
• Amplify the Employer Brand: Partner with Communications, Marketing, business leaders, and external partners to bring the Maple Leaf Foods employee value proposition to life across campaigns, talent communities, events, careers content, and recruiter outreach.
• Deliver Actionable Reporting and Insights: Own Talent Acquisition and functional reporting within SmartRecruiters. Establish reliable dashboards, scorecards, and operating routines that give Recruiters, HR, and business leaders visibility into hiring activity.
• Partner Across the Business: Build trusted relationships with HR leaders, hiring leaders and functional partners across Manufacturing, Commercial and Corporate teams.
• Manage Priorities, Partners and Investment: Allocate team capacity against business priorities, oversee selected vendors and external search partners, and monitor spend and service quality.
• Champion Continuous Improvement: Track feedback, recruitment metrics, market developments, and emerging practices.

What You’ll Bring:

• Talent Acquisition Leadership: Progressive Talent Acquisition experience across multiple functions or business groups, with demonstrated and recurring success leading, coaching, and developing Recruiters in a complex environment.
• Executive Recruitment: Deep expertise delivering Director and Vice President searches, including direct sourcing, candidate assessment, complex offer management, and trusted partnership with senior and executive leaders.
• Technology and Change Leadership: Experience leading adoption, governance, or continuous improvement of an applicant tracking system. SmartRecruiters experience is a strong asset.
• AI and Digital Fluency: Ability to responsibly apply AI-enabled tools, automation, and emerging recruitment technology to improve sourcing, candidate experience, and recruiter productivity.
• Data-Driven Decision Making: Ability to translate recruitment metrics, market intelligence and workforce trends into clear priorities, recommendations and actions for Talent Acquisition and functional leaders.
• Candidate and Hiring Leader Experience: A track record of improving recruitment experiences through clear standards, practical tools, effective service expectations, and disciplined follow-through.
• Stakeholder Partnership: Strong judgment, communication, and influencing skills, including the confidence and discretion required to advise senior leaders.
• Continuous Improvement: A collaborative, inclusive and improvement-oriented mindset, with the agility to move between strategy, people leadership, change enablement, and hands-on recruitment delivery.
• Education: Post-secondary education in Human Resources, Business or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

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.
• 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®, Schneiders®, and Greenfield Natural Meat Co.® 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’re a global food company with approximately 10,000 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

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 [email protected].

Disclaimer: Please note that salaries posted on sites other than the MLF Careers Page are not a reflection of Maple Leaf Foods and are an estimated salary range provided by that particular job board. Maple Leaf Foods offers competitive wages and an attractive total rewards package, which will be discussed during an interview with our Talent Team.

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