First Look: Kraft Heinz’s New HQ
The Kraft Heinz Company has relocated its Canadian headquarters to Queen’s Quay Terminal in downtown Toronto, a location it chose as part of its bid to attract top talent and propel agility.
More than 350 employees will work out of the space, including the Canada marketing, sales, and away-from-home functions, as well as employees from the North America IT, operations, digital, finance, communications, growth, and people and performance teams.
The office, which has more than 600 work, meeting, breakout, and collaboration spaces, includes an on-site culinary center of excellence (CoE) to develop and test new products, recipes, and social content.
The CoE will also serve as a spot where employees of the No. 20 publicly owned consumer goods company can collaborate not only among themselves, but also with retail and foodservice customers. The company intends for its new HQ to better foster connections and community, according to a press release, and it’s decorated the new space with artwork from local artists.
The office has also been optimized for hybrid meetings, the company noted, while a “Crunchy
And Smoothy Café” boasts a coffee bar and space stocked with Kraft Heinz and grab-and-go products.
Kraft Heinz Transformation
Kraft Heinz is in the midst of a multi-year transformation that includes the expansion of its Agile-based strategy across all business functions. As part of this, the company has established pods of teams that focus on very specific challenges and opportunities to help break down silos.
“We were a company in the past very siloed, and the pod is the opposite of that. When I have a pod working on innovation of a specific thing, this is the only thing those 12 people do; they don't do anything else,” said CEO Miguel Patricio at an investors’ conference last month. “They are 100% of their time dedicated to fix or to solve that opportunity or that problem.”
