Manager, Leadership Communications

Manager, Leadership Communications

Are you passionate about bringing stories to life through creative and digitally enabled communications? We’re seeking an agile and talented communicator to join our global leadership communications team and help us shape and elevate our content.

About The Role

Calling all proactive, business-oriented and tech-savvy communicators!

As a hands-on creative storyteller, you will play a pivotal role in bringing our global business strategy to life through executive voices and experiences. Reporting to the Director, Leadership Communications, you will help shape how leaders connect, inspire and engage employees, stakeholders and external audiences, globally. You will influence the voice of McCain at the highest levels—helping our senior leaders tell compelling stories that bring our leadership principles and corporate strategy to life.

Working with a team of passionate communicators with big ideas, you will help elevate our brand and reputation through strategic storytelling, proactive engagement and close collaboration with leaders, business partners and subject matter experts to align messaging and support key initiatives. Did we mention the free Fries?

What You’ll Be Doing

• Provide counsel on communications, anticipate issues and recommend proactive strategies to enhance leadership visibility and credibility.
• Generate creative content and produce high-quality events for leaders including speeches, scripts, presentations, events, emails, internal announcements, intranet stories, social content, podcasts and more.
• Ensure all materials reflect the leader's authentic voice while maintaining professional standards and strategic intent.
• Create creative and compelling content to develop communications strategies that support business and leader objectives, working across functions and regions to ensure messaging is aligned and consistent.
• Translate complex business concepts into clear, compelling narratives for employees, shareholders, investors and external audiences.
• Deliver an always-on content engine the elevates McCain’s reputation and reinforces our winning culture through people and leader storytelling, highlighting key business developments, award wins and much more.
• Identify and mine stories from across the global organization to advance our winning culture, deepen engagement and contribute to McCain’s reputation as a great place to work.
• Support thought leadership and leader storytelling, and provide strategic counsel on tone, cadence, and delivery.
• Continuously monitor sentiment and propose tactics to inspire, engage and energize McCainers.
• Stay up to date on industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices to continually innovate communications.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Work closely with business partners and subject matter experts to ensure the successful execution of communications deliverables.
• Manage workflow with executive offices, actively collaborating with Strategy & Transformation teams, HR Business Partners and the broader Global Leadership Communications team.
• Collaborate across the wider Global Internal Communications and Change Management team, as well as with external and regional communications teams.

Execution Excellence

• Lead the end-to-end process, which includes the development and distribution of internal and external communications and events.
• Provide sound communications advice, and flawless execution of communication and events to target audiences.
• Ad hoc deliverables to support Global HR and Communications goals.

What You’ll Need To Be Successful

• Exceptional communication skills and strong business acumen.
• Experience supporting leaders with high degree of executive presence.
• Business or professional degree, MBA an asset.
• Bachelor’s degree in communications or a related field.
• PR Agency, CPG or Retail experience preferred.
• Excellent project management skills.
• Diplomatic, proactive, agile and adaptable, with a positive demeanor.
• Highly organized with strong attention to detail.
• Ability to remain calm under pressure and balance multiple priorities.
• Comfortable working in fast-paced, and deadline-driven environment.
• Ability to manage competing priorities under tight timelines.
• Highly creative mindset with a passion for pushing boundaries.
• Intellectual curiosity with commitment to continuous improvement.
• Proficient in Microsoft, Adobe and AI Tools to bring content to life.

About McCain

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Leadership Principles

At McCain, our leadership principles guide how we engage with customers, collaborate as a team, and achieve success. We focus on understanding customer needs, driving innovation, empowering people, and taking ownership to clear obstacles and deliver results.

The McCain Experience

We are McCain. This statement is a testament to our collective strength and our individual value. Your contributions play a vital role in our success. Our winning culture is rooted in authenticity and trust, empowering us to bring out the best in one another. Here, you’ll find opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Join us and experience why we’re better together.

Our purpose is grounded in building meaningful relationships. We’re big believers in the power of working together in person—it helps us stay connected, collaborate more effectively, and grow as a team. At the same time, we recognize the importance of flexibility. Most office-based roles follow a hybrid model, with the option to work remotely two days a week. There may be exceptions depending on the role and location, so we encourage you to speak with your recruiter for more details.

Key skills/competency

• Leadership Communications
• Strategic Storytelling
• Content Creation
• Executive Presence
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Digital Communications
• Project Management
• Business Acumen
• PR Agency Experience
• AI Tools Proficiency