Position Title: Director, AI Workforce Transformation

Position Type: Regular - Full-Time

Requisition ID: 44448

About the role.

Technology is advancing faster than roles, skills, and ways of working-creating a growing AI productivity and skills gap across organizations. At McCain, closing this gap requires more than tools or communications; it requires a fundamental shift in how work is designed, how roles and skills evolve, how managers lead, and how employees safely adapt.

Reporting to the VP, Global Communications & Change, The Director, AI Workforce Transformation is accountable for shaping and driving McCain's enterprise AI workforce transformation agenda. This role designs and enables the behavioral, cultural, and leadership shifts required for sustainable AI adoption, placing people at the center of reinvention.

This is an organizational development, culture, and change leadership role, ensuring McCain builds the skills, mindset and change agility needed to thrive in a continuous-transformation environment.

What you'll be doing.

1. Lead Enterprise AI Workforce Transformation Strategy

• Partnering with the VP of AI and VP Communications & Change, you will design and lead McCain's enterprise-wide AI Workforce Transformation strategy. Through an integrated Communication, Change and Learning strategy you will focus on realizing value through tool adoption, workflow redesign and high value use case implementation.
• Establish integrated working rhythms with key stakeholders across Digital Technology and HR to ensure alignment and cohesion in this fast-changing and dynamic agenda.
• In partnership with Organizational Development, champion enterprise-wide AI fluency, building baseline AI capability and confidence across all levels of the organization through an ongoing learning strategy.

2. Redesign Work for an AI-Enabled Organization

• Develop a repeatable approach for identifying where AI can simplify, augment, or fundamentally redesign how work gets done.
• Partner with functions and business teams to understand current-state workflows and design future-state human + AI ways of working.
• Help leaders move beyond automating existing tasks to rethinking processes, responsibilities, and decision-making.
• Support the AI Accelerator in assessing Use Cases, ensuring that Change Impacts are assessed with the appropriate level of change support identified
• Continue to evolve the enterprise KPI framework for AI adoption and workforce ensuring value, not just adoption, is tracked and reported.

3. Build People Leader Capability

• Redefine manager capability for an AI-enabled organization, including:
  • Leading teams through role and task redesign
  • Adopting new work practices and workflows while embedding McCain ways of working
  • Coaching employees through change and skill shifts
• Embed psychological safety, accountability, and trust into leadership expectations, team norms, and ways of working.
• Embed transformation capability at the team level, recognizing it as the true engine of AI innovation and adoption.
• Use continuous listening and sentiment insight to help managers spot emerging needs and adjust support in real time.

4. Foster AI Transparency Across the Enterprise

• Champion enterprise standards for AI transparency, responsible use, and open dialogue.
• Partner with Communications to ensure leaders clearly communicate:
• How AI is being used at McCain and why
• What it means for McCainers, their work and roles
• What guardrails and expectations exist
• Address employee concerns directly, creating the trust and psychological safety required for confident adoption.

5. Help Build Change Agility as a Core Organizational Capability

• Work closely with Change Enablement to operationalize change agility as a core capability across the enterprise.
• Enable leaders, teams, and individuals to adapt quickly to ongoing transformation, ambiguity, and evolving ways of working.
• Partner across HR, Technology, and all functions and regions to ensure change capability is built as part of the every day way we work, not treated as a one-time intervention.

What you'll need to be successful.

RequiredExperience & Background

• 8-12 years of experience in organizational development, workforce transformation, enterprise change or culture transformation
• Proven leadership of enterprise-scale technology or digital transformation across a global organization
• Experience working with senior leaders and managers in highly complex, matrixed environments

Required Skills & Capabilities

• Experience designing manager-facing leadership or enablement and development programs that drive real behavior change
• Deep expertise in human-centered change methodologies (e.g., Prosci or equivalent), with the ability to evolve them for continuous change
• Strong facilitation, coaching, and storytelling skills; credible with executives, managers, and frontline employees
• Demonstrated ability to shape culture, behaviors, and leadership practices-not just deliver change plans
• Familiarity with AI and workforce implications; a trusted, informed voice on the human side of AI with clear demonstration of AI personal adoption
• Experience with skills-based workforce planning, skills taxonomies, or data-driven skills-gap analysis to inform role and capability redesign
• Working knowledge of AI governance and responsible AI principles, with the ability to translate them into practical guardrails for teams

Leadership Attributes

• Systems thinker who understands the interplay between strategy, technology, work design, culture, and capability
• Comfortable operating amid ambiguity and rapid change
• Influential leader who builds trust, momentum, and alignment across functions
• Passionate about empowering managers as the frontline leaders of transformation

Compensation Package : $146,200.00 - $195,000.00 . CAD annually + Bonus eligibility + Long-term incentive 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.

Job Family: Communications
Location(s): CA - Canada : Ontario : Toronto

Company: McCain Foods (Canada)