About this role
Requisition ID: 43218 Job DescriptionThe Director, Organizational Development (OD) – North America is responsible for shaping and leading a high-impact OD strategy that enables a future-ready, inclusive, and high-performing workforce. This role provides strategic direction across the four core pillars of our Winning Culture; Safe & Well, Engaged, Future Ready, and Included; ensuring alignment with business priorities and driving measurable impact across culture, capability, and strategic talent management. Partnering closely with Senior Leaders, HR Business Partners, and global Centres of Excellence, this role develops and scales enterprise solutions that strengthen leadership, engagement, talent pipelines, and inclusion. This role moves beyond program delivery to set vision, integrate priorities and drive impact at scale. This role is a contract opportunity with an anticipated duration of August 2026-September 2027.How You'll Add Value:OD Strategy, Enterprise Impact, and LeadershipDefine, plan and execute the North America OD strategy aligned with business, HR and Global Talent Management prioritiesServe as a trusted advisor to Senior Leaders and HR Business Partners on organizational development; translating business strategies into integrated talent, culture, and capability-building initiativesLead, develop, and inspire a team of OD professionals across multiple disciplinesEnsure alignment, integration and execution of global Talent Management initiatives within the NA planLeverage data (engagement surveys, talent insights, performance metrics) to drive decisions and measure impactBuild internal and external partnerships and benchmark best practices to continuously evolve programsPlay an active role in driving large-scale transformation and culture change initiativesManage NA OD and I&B Budgets in accordance with strategy & plans Safe & Well: Safety Culture & WellbeingSteward NA Wellbeing strategy and plans; promoting a culture of care and psychological safetyPartner with HR, Corporate and Plant teams to embed LivingWell strategy, practices and programs into positive leadership behaviors and employee experienceDesign and support initiatives that enhance employee wellbeing, resilience, and positive mental healthEmbed LivingWell into leadership development, engagement, and leadership frameworks & communications Engaged: Employee Experience & CultureOwn the North America engagement strategy, including engagement survey deployment and action planning; translating insights into business actionsLead enterprise-wide engagement programs, tools, and communication strategiesEmbed McCain Leadership Principles and Ways of Working to strengthen culture and team effectivenessPartner with leaders and HRBPs to diagnose engagement gaps and implement targeted interventionsDrive continuous improvement of employee listening strategies (e.g., surveys, focus groups) Future Ready: Talent & Leadership DevelopmentLead the end-to-end talent, learning and leadership development strategy and initiatives for North America Oversee key programs including:Strategic talent management & succession planning (incl. preparation for Regional/ Global/Board cadences)Talent Assessments, including coaching & facilitation (e.g. Insights Discovery, IDI, LEA 360)Leadership development programs (e.g., Great People Leader, Great Business Leader programs)Talent/team development interventions (e.g. Mentoring, Winning Together Talks etc.)Learning strategy and platform adoptionManufacturing Learning and Production Management Trainee Program capability mandatesVendor engagement/managementEnsure solutions are scalable and effective across corporate and manufacturing environmentsDrive innovation in learning delivery, including digital and experiential approachesBuild strong talent pipeli