Sr Manager, Transformation

McDonald's Corporation•Toronto, ON

1d•CA$111,999 - CA$159,998

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

Experience in Source-to-Pay, Indirect Procurement, CLM, or adjacent domains preferred

Responsibilities

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
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
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
Proactively manage risks, interdependencies, and capacity constraints
Surface trade-offs and decision points to enable timely senior leader decisions
Deliver clear, executive-ready updates on progress, risks, and decisions required
Capture and share lessons learned to improve future deployment waves