Sr Manager, Transformation

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Company Description

Job Description

Job Description:

Company Description:

At McDonald's, we are committed to being the best, and that starts with finding the best people. We have built a team of extraordinary people from around the world. We are problem solvers, risk takers, innovators, and thought leaders that take our work seriously, but have fun doing it. We challenge ourselves to get smarter and sharper every day, we value personal and professional growth, and believe in rewarding and celebrating our successes.

The Opportunity

The Senior Manager Transformation is accountable for leading market-level execution and business enablement across sourcing programs. This role will support global transformation programs focused on modernizing how the company purchases goods and services and manages contracts—driving greater efficiency, consistency, and better ways of working across markets.

As a Senior Manager (G5), this role operates with significant autonomy and judgment, acting as the primary execution and enablement lead for the market and a key partner to the Business Lead

Duties

Integrated Program Leadership

  • Manage market-level execution across Indirect Sourcing & Procurement and Cost Optimization ensuring aligned plans, milestones, and outcomes involving large-scale, cross-functional transformation across processes, technology, and teams
  • Assist with developing the indirect procurement governance model (intake, approvals, thresholds, escalation paths
  • Drive execution across design, deployment, and hypercare, anticipating and resolving conflicts

Policy, Standards and Controls

  • Lead business impact assessments across process, policy, roles, systems, and operating models
  • Steward indirect procurement policies, standards, and playbooks, aligned to enterprise requirements.
  • Ensure consistent application of sourcing, contracting, and supplier risk standards across functions.
  • Partner with key departments on compliance and controls
  • Ensure end-to-end readiness including testing participation, cutover planning, go-live, and hypercare

Business Partnering and Enablement

  • Act as the bridge between the business and IS&P, ensuring governance feels enabling—not bureaucratic.
  • Lead business readiness, education, and change messaging for new ways of buying
  • Lead and coordinate SME inputs across sourcing, procurement, legal/CLM, finance/AP, IT, and change
  • Oversight/project management of a team of indirect reports, completing negotiations to track system savings
  • Represent the market in global program forums and ensure local needs are addressed

Risk, Dependency & Decision Management

  • Proactively manage risks, interdependencies, and capacity constraints
  • Surface trade-offs and decision points to enable timely senior leader decisions

Executive Communication & Continuous Improvement

  • Deliver clear, executive-ready updates on progress, risks, and decisions required
  • Capture and share lessons learned to improve future deployment waves

Qualifications

  • 7+ years leading complex enterprise programs or transformations
  • Proven ability to lead interdependent workstreams and influence senior stakeholders
  • Strong execution discipline, risk management, and executive communication skills
  • Experience in Source-to-Pay, Indirect Procurement, CLM, or adjacent domains preferred

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Salary Range

The expected salary range for this role is $111,999 - $159,998 CAD per year 
 
The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we may also consider your experience, and other job-related factors. This is a new position.

Additional Information:

McDonald’s Canada and Owner/Operators are committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace for all. Our workplaces have a long-standing policy of providing fair, equitable, and accessible opportunities for all employees and prospective employees. Accommodations during the application process are available upon request.
We do not use artificial intelligence (AI) or automated tools to screen, assess, or select applicants during our recruitment process 

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