About this role
Requisition ID: 43306 Job DescriptionIn 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. About the role.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. This is a strategy-and-design mandate focused on the finished-goods network. 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) so local execution supports a single, high-performing global network. This newly created role offers the opportunity to build a new team and shape the function from the ground up. What you'll be doing. Finished-Goods Network Strategy 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. Portfolio Segmentation 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. Make-vs-Buy Governance & Decision Rights 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. Network Modeling, Scenario Planning & Analytics 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. Regulatory & Trade Integration 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. Cross-Regional Partnership & Stakeholder Alignment Act as a trusted advisor to Regional Managing Directors and Supply Chain Leads, aligning regional execution wi