Digital Agriculture Analytics Lead

McCain Foods Limited

$81K — $108K *
Food & Beverages
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent practical experience.
  • 4-7+ years delivering analytics or insights in agriculture, food, supply chain, or similar environments.
  • Proven ability to translate business or agronomic questions into actionable insights.
  • Hands-on experience with advanced analytics solutions like forecasting and predictive tools.
  • Familiarity with analytical tools such as SQL, Python, and business intelligence platforms.
  • Experience collaborating across business and technical teams with multiple data sources.
  • Strong business mindset with clear communication abilities.

Responsibilities

  • Lead analytics and AI initiatives to create measurable business value across the farm-to-fork value chain.
  • Collaborate with growers and various stakeholders to prioritize analytics projects.
  • Transform agronomic challenges into insights using advanced analytics and AI techniques.
  • Create analytical products like models and dashboards to support decision-making.
  • Establish and track key performance indicators for agricultural operations.
  • Drive data standardization in conjunction with enterprise data teams.
  • Integrate analytics into workflows and decision processes for sustained impact.

Benefits

  • Health coverage (medical, dental, vision, prescription drug).
  • Retirement savings benefits.
  • Leave support, including medical and family leave.
  • Well-being programs with vacation and holidays.
  • Company-supported volunteering time.
  • Mental health resources.
Full Job Description
Position Title: Digital Agriculture Analytics Lead

Position Type: Regular - Full-Time

Requisition ID: 41940

About the role.

McCain's North America Agriculture organization is transforming into a digitally enabled, data- and insight-driven operation that connects on-farm activities to downstream outcomes across storage, manufacturing, sustainability, and supply chain.

The Digital Agriculture Analytics Lead is a hands-on, business-focused individual contributor responsible for translating agricultural and operational challenges into actionable insights using advanced analytics and AI-enabled techniques. This role focuses on decision impact, adoption, and measurable business value, not just reports or dashboards.

What you'll be doing.

  • Lead analytics, AI-enabled insights, and digital innovation initiatives across North America Agriculture to deliver measurable business value across the farm-to-fork value chain
  • Partner with growers, field teams, manufacturing, storage, sustainability, and supply chain stakeholders to identify and prioritize high-value analytics use cases
  • Translate agronomic and operational challenges into actionable insights using advanced analytics, forecasting, predictive techniques, and AI-enabled approaches
  • Build and maintain analytical products such as models, forecasts, scenario analyses, dashboards, and decision-support tools
  • Define, standardize, and track key agriculture KPIs to enable consistent performance monitoring across regions and teams
  • Drive data standardization and harmonization in partnership with enterprise data and technology teams to enable scalable, trusted analytics
  • Embed analytics and digital solutions into workflows, operating rhythms, and decision forums to ensure adoption and sustained impact
  • Evaluate and pilot emerging analytics and digital technologies that improve performance, sustainability, and innovation
  • Support change management, training, and stakeholder engagement, including defining value hypotheses and success metrics


What you'll need to be successful.

  • Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, or equivalent practical experience
  • 4-7+ years of experience delivering analytics or insights in agriculture, food, supply chain, manufacturing, or other data-rich operational environments
  • Proven ability to translate business or agronomic questions into analytical insights that drive decisions and measurable outcomes
  • Hands-on experience building and applying advanced analytics solutions such as forecasting models, predictive insights, scenario analysis, or AI-enabled decision tools
  • Experience using analytics and data tools such as SQL, Python (or similar), and business intelligence platforms (e.g., Power BI or equivalent)
  • Experience working with multiple data sources and partnering across business and technical teams
  • Strong business-first mindset with the ability to influence stakeholders and communicate insights clearly
  • Curiosity and openness to using AI-enabled analytics where it adds value, without over-engineering solutions
  • Willingness to travel up to 25% as required


About the team.

This role sits within the North America Agriculture organization and reports to the Director of Ag Business Transformation. The team focuses on driving digital, data, and analytics capabilities that improve agronomic performance, operational efficiency, sustainability, and supply-chain outcomes. The Digital Agriculture Analytics Lead works cross-functionally with agriculture, operations, supply chain, sustainability, and enterprise data and technology teams to embed analytics into day-to-day decision-making.

Compensation Package : $81,600.00 - $108,900.00 . 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 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.

Job Family: Agriculture; Information Technology
Location(s): CA - Canada : Ontario : Toronto || CA - Canada : New Brunswick : Florenceville-Bristol

Company: McCain Foods (Canada)

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