Director, Supply Chain Network Strategy & Design

Position Title: Director, Supply Chain Network Strategy & Design

Position Type: Regular - Full-Time

Grade: Grade 07

Requisition : 43307

In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences—together. With a customer‑first mindset, we make doing business with McCain easy.

The Director, Supply Chain Network Strategy & Design owns how and where McCain makes, sources, and stores finished goods for the Global Snacking business—translating commercial ambition into a resilient, cost‑advantaged manufacturing and distribution footprint. Reporting to the VP, Supply Chain – Global Snacking, and building a new purpose‑built team, this leader sets the finished‑goods sourcing and network strategy: the make‑vs‑buy decisions, footprint choices, and product‑to‑plant‑to‑market flows that determine how Snacking will scale globally.

Success depends on strong cross‑regional relationships and the ability to align diverse stakeholders behind common network outcomes, working closely with Regional Managing Directors across all regions (NA, EMENA, APACSA, LATAM).

• Own the Global Snacking finished‑goods network strategy—defining where products are manufactured, co‑manufactured, and stored to serve each market at the best total delivered cost, service, and risk position.
• Lead make‑vs‑buy strategy end to end: when to scale internally, when to keep or expand external/co‑manufacturing, and how the footprint should evolve to support growth, new categories, and capacity needs.
• Provide network and footprint inputs into long‑range capacity and capital planning, in partnership with Operations, Finance, and Global Supply Chain.

• Define and maintain the strategic direction for every finished‑goods product—Develop, Scale, Insource, Outsource, or Exit—with a simple, repeatable process to keep that view current as the business evolves.

• Translate portfolio choices into a repeatable governance system: clear decision rights, owners, triggers, and review cadence for how make‑vs‑buy and network decisions are made and re‑visited.
• Establish the standards, criteria, and forums that let McCain make these calls consistently and defensibly across regions—rather than case by case.

• Stand up and lead the network‑modeling capability—using optimization and scenario tools to pressure‑test footprint, sourcing, capacity, and flow decisions.
• Run “what‑if” scenarios (demand shifts, capacity constraints, cost/tariff changes, supply disruptions) to recommend optimal sourcing and deployment strategies with clear cost‑to‑serve transparency.

• Demonstrate a practical understanding of food and trade regulatory frameworks sufficient to engage effectively with Scientific & Regulatory Affairs (SRA) and trade‑compliance teams, translating their requirements into operational network and sourcing decisions.
• Embed regulatory and trade requirements into end‑to‑end network design—so compliance is proactively built into how product is designed, sourced, made, and moved globally.

• Act as a trusted advisor to Regional Managing Directors and Supply Chain Leads, aligning regional execution with the global network strategy.
• Partner across Operations, Finance, Procurement, and Global Supply Chain to reconcile network recommendations with performance, cost, and investment realities—and to drive decisions to closure.

• Build, coach, and develop a new high‑performing team (Manager, Network Strategy + two Supply Chain Analysts), establishing the ways of working, tools, and standards of this net‑new function.
• Foster a “One Supply Chain” mindset—connectivity, shared accountability, and continuous improvement across all Snacking regions.

• University degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Operations Research, Analytics, or Business (Master’s preferred)
• 10+ years of progressive supply chain experience in multinational or FMCG/CPG…