Position Title: Disruptive Innovation Contractor
Position Type: Temporary - Full-Time
Position Location: Oakbrook Terrace
Requisition ID: 30980
At McCain Foods, we understand the profound role food plays in connecting people, families, and communities. That is why our mission is to celebrate genuine connections through delicious, environmentally conscious food. By fostering collaboration among our teams, business partners, and communities worldwide, we believe in shared success. Become part of our family today.
McCain’s Disruptive Innovation team is seeking an experienced contractor for six-months. This person will sit within the NA Potato Business Unit (The largest at McCain!) on the marketing team and will work across both Foodservice & Retail channels.
Responsibilities

• As the project owner of Disruptive Innovation Projects, report into Senior Brand Manager to drive commercialization projects to be on-time while meeting conditions of satisfaction
• Lead weekly cross functional project team meetings
• Project management – critical path, contingency planning & escalate roadblocks
• Partner with insights partners to shape holistic learning plans
• Provide guidance to technical teams to delivery against development brief
• Ready necessary documents for stage-gate reviews
• Provide critical project progress updates to inform S&OP process

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years of experience in the CPG industry
• Has led complex commercialization projects in CPG, preferably Food and Beverage
• Working knowledge of stage-gate & comfortable with presenting to senior level gatekeepers
• Brings experience building strong partnerships with critical cross functional roles like R&D, Insights, Finance and Sales

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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Division: NA Potato
Department: Marketing - Innovation NA
Location(s): US - United States of America : Illinois : Chicago || US - United States of America : Illinois : Lisle || US - United States of America : Illinois : Oakbrook Terrace
Company: McCain Foods USA, Inc.