Senior Manager Learning Design & Development

Position Title: Senior Manager Learning Design & Development
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Position Location: Toronto HQ
Requisition ID: 34704
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.
McCain's Global Learning COE is part of the Global HR Team providing exceptional development experiences for McCainer's Globally to develop new skills and capabilities to be safe and effective in the roles and ready for future roles. The Senior Manager Learning Design & Development reports to the Director for Global Learning and leads a team of Learning Experience Designers and Learning Media Developers. Currently the team is focused on designing role-based skill development programs for teams in McCains manufacturing sites globally.
Accountabilities:

• Manages program and course design, development and production, including pedagogical thinking, flexible learning approaches and innovative digital technologies to shape new learning experiences.
• Collaborates with relationship managers, subject matter experts, business partners and senior stakeholders in conducting learning and performance needs analyses and identifying development gaps, objectives and priorities.
• Lead the design, development and implementation of blended learning solutions in collaboration with business partners, team members and vendors to deliver effective and efficient development solutions that enhance performance and engagement.
• Evaluate quality and effectiveness of development programs and provide recommendations and solutions for improvement.
• Implement measurement and evaluation strategies to measure program effectiveness and business impact.
• Maintains new and ongoing relationships with external vendors and networks to ensure currency and relevancy of training industry trends and best practices, leverages knowledge to implement solutions to improve/enhance strategies, programs and processes.
• Manages the application of innovative strategies for products for diverse learner cohorts.
• Advocates and champions, the learning operating model across McCain Globally and within the Global HR. Proactively contributes to the transformation of the learning operating model, with the aim of creating a globally integrated function that is scalable, flexible, efficient and effective.

Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience in a similar role, managing a team and ideally bringing global experience
• Demonstrated ability to draw upon new and emerging technologies and practice for the effective application of innovative use of tools and learning and assessment pedagogies.
• Highly developed interpersonal and relationship management skills.
• Demonstrated experience in leading high performing teams and managing performance of team members.
• Demonstrated outstanding communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to lead and work as part of a diverse team and liaise and negotiate with a range of people to achieve agreed outcomes and reconcile different views.
• Demonstrated experience in leading teams, mentoring and training teams encouraging 'agile' mindset and best practice outcomes.
• Demonstrated experience of effectively leading and project managing complex education based projects and programs with significant change impact in organisational operational excellence.
• Experience in the creation and implementation of effective blended learning design frameworks.
• Experience leveraging ADDIE and SAM development frameworks.
• Demonstrated experience with implementing quality learning design processes to enhance learner experience.

Skills:

• Adult Education Certification
• Performance Consulting
• Strategic Mindset
• Project Management
• Systems Thinking
• Managing Ambiguity
• Team Leadership
• Effective Communication
• Cross Functional Collaboration
• ADDIE and SAM development frameworks
• Learning Assessment
• Learning Design
• eLearning Development
• Articulate 360
• Adobe Creative Suite
• AI Assisted Tools (text, image, video, audio generation)
• Easy Generator
• Content Translation
• Data Analysis

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 : $107,600.00 - $143,500.00 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/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.
McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. We see value in ensuring we have a diverse, antiracist, inclusive, merit-based, and equitable workplace. As a global family-owned company we are proud to reflect the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that diversity drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger.
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 meet your needs.
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Job Family: Human Resources
Division: Global Human Resources
Department: Global Learning and Development
Location(s): CA - Canada : Ontario : Toronto
Company: McCain Foods (Canada)