Job Description

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Position Title: Corporate Chef 

Position Type: Regular - Full-Time ​

Position Location: Oakbrook Terrace 

Requisition ID: 34337 

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About the role. 

In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and interested in helping each other create good work experiences. We think about the customer and make doing business with McCain easy. 

The Chef is a unique member of the North America (NA) Go to Market Team at McCain. This role contributes to the development of McCain’s progressive food culture, leveraging culinary within specific channels as a lever of competitive competitor advantage for McCain. The role requires a blend of exceptional execution, commercial business savvy and hands-on, detailed involvement in the day-to-day business.  

Accountabilities: 

• Input relevant channel culinary insight and trends (eg. menu, front of house, back of house) into Channel and Business Unit (BU) (ie. Potato, Appetizers) marketing and sales execution plans. 
• Intimate insight and knowledge of culinary landscape and developing trends (eg. menu, front of house, back of house), to shape executional plans. 
• Partner with Commercial peers to deliver the culinary role of Joint Business Plans and Customer Growth Plans across strategic customers. 
• Work with the Channel Teams to develop internal and external culinary resource plans and priorities to ensure the BU annual plans are operationalized across the Sales and all Customer tiers.
• Develop, in partnership with Channel Teams, plans for culinary capability building across Sales Teams.
• Contribute, where relevant, to the Innovation process to establish operator needs as a foundation for development.
• Plays an active role in delivering Culinary Customer Commitments to strengthen relationships with strategic key customers.
• Adhere to commercial controls and processes across sales execution in market, ensuring an integrated and coordinated approach across all commercial processes. 
• Responsible for providing insight and analysis to recommend culinary solutions and insights to the Channel Teams, Sales and Commercial teams.
• Accountable for the implementation of culinary specific plan in Channel and initiatives that aligns with annual and long-term plans to support the overall success of McCain meeting/exceeding business objectives. 
• Co-Create culinary-driven gold standards and consumer-inspired concepts across a wide variety of food categories with R&D partners and other chefs.
• Develop culinary applications that demonstrate the breadth and value of the McCain portfolio of Potato and appetizer products for multiple channels and accounts.
• Build culinary-to-culinary connections with key customers.
• Partner with foodservice Innovation team and Insights team to identify and explore current and future trends that inspire consumers.
• Collaborate with R&D and other technical business units to evaluate and explore branded and innovation products using different cooking/holding platforms to find solutions for customer needs.

Qualifications:

• Culinary expertise and qualifications
• Education: Degree in Culinary Arts. Food Science knowledge is a plus.
• Membership in Research Chefs Association and/or similar industry organizations a plus.
• Ability to travel up to 40% to customers across North America.
• McCain is a private company and family owned – the ideal candidate needs to be very people-focused and embrace a culture of humility. 
• Minimum 8 years solid culinary experience in a preferred mix of heavy Foodservice to corporate roles.

Skills:

• Performance driven, high sense of urgency and delivery; executing at speed, ‘getting things done’.
• Ability to influence at all levels.  
• Entrepreneurial – embraces opportunities, tackles problems, and uses own initiative.
• Team Player – able to quickly connect and establish relationships with stakeholders, demonstrating strong emotional intelligence and an ability to communicate clearly and persuasively. 
• Able to interpret insights and trends into meaningful implications and actions. 
• Resilient - able to absorb and adapt to a changing environment.
• Adept at decision-making and adaptability in executing key business objectives. 
• Consistently models the organization’s core values and Leadership Principles in daily actions and behaviors. Supports and sustains McCain’s culture.
• Excellent commercial skills, including data analysis, planning and forecasting.
• A solid understanding of the business and markets, demonstrated learning agility.

About the team. 
The North American Culinary team is an integral part of McCain, dedicated to driving our innovations and highlighting our great products to our customer, operators, and consumers. The team is built upon the familial and collaborative spirit, working with all facets of the Commercial team including sales, customer and brand marketing, R&D as well as regional and Global leadership as the voice of the operator. We are well-respected both internally and in the industry as a high-valued team who work tirelessly to be both creative and practical to deliver exceptional value to our operators. By leveraging our extensive years of expertise and commitment both internally and previously as operators ourselves with diverse backgrounds, the North American Culinary team consistently ensures that McCain delights our customers with delicious food and innovative ways to reach the menu.

About McCain. 

At McCain, we’re feeding the world: from French fries to cakes, we contribute to the important role food plays in people's lives. That’s why we’re dedicated to ensuring our core values—Family, Authentic, Trusted, and Quality—shine through every day. As a privately owned family company with over 60 years of experience, a presence in more than 160 countries, and a global team of 22,000 people, our values and culture are at the heart of everything we do. We believe that we can work together, along with our business and community partners, to bring sustainable growth and positive change today, tomorrow, and for generations to come. Join us and see how you can MAKE IT at McCain! 

Leadership Principles. 

Our principles, each with related practices, guide our actions across the organization. Together, they address how McCain interacts with our customers and employees, and how we work as individuals and collectively to find success. While each role adheres to the Leadership Principles, individual roles may focus more on a specific principle or principles. 

We are customer obsessed. Customers are our starting point. By understanding their needs and leveraging data and consumer insights, we drive mutual success. 

We think big and plan ahead. Through ambition, curiosity, and smart risks, we can accomplish goals, refine processes, and innovate to scale success. 

We bring out the best in our people. We create safe spaces for our people so that trust and empowerment come naturally. Inclusion is about listening first, showing humility, and working together. 

We act like owners. Together, we clear obstacles and do the work that makes us all successful and proud to be part of McCain. 

The McCain experience. 

We are McCain: this statement is about our power collectively and our importance individually—your impact is a significant part of the business. Our winning culture focuses on authenticity and trust so we can always bring out the best in our people. Here, you have the opportunity to learn, grow, and thrive while being yourself. Join our team to see why we’re better together. 

Compensation Package : $81,600.00-$108,900.00  USD 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/training, and other organizational needs.

Benefits : At McCain, we’re on a mission to create a winning culture that puts employee safety and wellbeing at the heart of what we do, every day. We understand and appreciate that each person’s needs are unique and ensure our benefits & wellbeing 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. Wellbeing programs include vacation and holidays, company-supported volunteering time, and mental health resources. Coverages are aligned to country, provincial and state governing plans and can vary by work level, location and nature of the role. Additional benefit details 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.

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