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Overview of the role

Saputo is seeking an IT Project Manager to join our IT PMO team. As a member of the Project Management Office, you will be accountable for the planning, managing, and successful completion of large scale, complex implementations (i.e. Digital, SAP, SaaS) and smaller IT initiatives impacting business processes across our global divisions.

Your recipe for delivering successful projects in a dynamic and fast‑paced environment includes being versatile and maintaining strong relationships with IT leaders, the business, and project core teams.

Responsibilities

- Define and lead the project approach from concept through execution, including translating ambiguous business objectives into a clear delivery strategy, work breakdown structure, staffing model, deliverables, and integrated project plan. Establish scope, estimates, schedule, costs, assumptions, and external dependencies in environments where requirements may initially be undefined or evolving.
- Provide the Saputo IT Leadership Team with weekly progress reports including risks, issues, decisions, and recommendations for adjustments as necessary. Ensure timely communication of relevant project information to all affected team members, including changes to plans, team structure, commitments, and project dependencies.
- Demonstrate strong leadership skills and provide guidance and support to optimize the performance of a diverse team, leading through influence to indirect reports, and ensuring the project team follows all quality assurance processes, including periodic reviews and transitions.
- Manage internal and external relationships and coordinate work between different teams globally.
- Work effectively in a multi‑site delivery model.
- Lead the end‑to‑end management of third‑party vendors and system integrators, including participation in vendor selection, contract negotiation, commercial governance, and oversight of delivery performance throughout the full project lifecycle, ensuring alignment to scope, schedule, cost, and quality commitments.
- Possess a well‑rounded Project Management knowledge base and the ability to quickly pick up and deliver projects across various applications and platforms.
- Coach and support other IT resources assuming Project Lead roles, and contribute to the development of PMO processes, tools and methodology.

Key Contributions

- Work Planning and Deliverable Management:



Adapt the PMO Work Planning processes and tools to the projects at hand and maintain work plans, continuously monitoring actuals, and resolving/addressing cost and schedule variances. Leverage the Deliverable Management process and tool to track the timely completion of all project deliverables to the baselines.
- Scope Management: Operationalize the pre‑defined PMO Scope Management Process to control the project scope and requirements. Present scope changes meeting the pre‑defined threshold to the Saputo IT leadership Committee for approval.
- Performance and Reporting Management: Leverage the pre‑defined PMO processes, tools, and techniques to ensure timely and appropriate generation, and distribution of project progress and status information to stakeholders.
- Resource Management: Manage the resources of the project, including capacity, defining roles and responsibilities, creating a staffing plan, obtaining appropriate skilled resources, and managing shared capacity.
- Issue/Risk Management/Quality: Enforce timely capture of project risks and issues by all team members, and track, manage, resolve, or elevate project problems that impact the project’s ability to meet IT commitments regarding schedule, resources, costs, and quality.
- Vendor and System Integrator Management: Lead relationships with external vendors and system integrators, defining statements of work, supporting contract negotiations, establishing delivery governance, managing financials and change controls, and ensuring vendor performance meets contractual and project expectations. Proactively address delivery risks, dependencies, and integration challenges across internal and external teams.
- Define and manage required quality gates to perform quality planning, quality assurance, and quality control activities. Obtain deliverable sign‑offs from stakeholders and ensure all expectations are met.
- Contribute to the improvement of the PMO tools and processes, coach, and support IT resources in developing their project management skills.

Qualifications

- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Information Systems, Engineering, Business Administration, or equivalent work experience.
- Project Management certification or successful completion of a recognized project management curriculum (i.e. PMP, Prince II).
- SCRUM Master certification or successful completion of projects in hybrid or agile environments (asset).




- Minimum of 8 years of total IT project delivery experience, of which 3–5 years include leading the full delivery lifecycle and managing a diverse team.
- Experience delivering SAP projects (asset).
- Experience managing large projects or programs with complex application delivery.
- Experience managing multiple system integrators.
- Experience managing a global deployment (asset).
- Experience delivering AI use cases from Minimum Viable Product to full‑scale deployment (asset).
- Ability to multitask and manage competing priorities under pressure.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a delivery team.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to motivate in a team‑oriented, collaborative environment; ability to provide updates to Director and VP levels; adept at building relationships with internal teams and external partners.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Ability to coordinate 20+ shared resources and collaborate at all levels. Strong people‑management skills including delegation, motivation, coaching, and conflict‑management capabilities.
- Ability to operate in a complex, fast‑paced project environment with interdependencies spanning multiple work‑streams, teams, business divisions, geographies, time zones, and languages.
- Experience managing packaged software and SaaS implementation methodologies. Cross‑functional exposure, including Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and HR / Payroll (asset).
- Expert‑level proficiency in MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, MS Project Professional, and Excel) and SharePoint.
- French/English bilingual competency (asset).
- Product‑management knowledge or working experience (asset).

Benefits

- Generous and complete benefit coverage with group insurance.
- Group retirement plan with employer contribution.
- Telemedicine and assistance program for employees and their families.
- Employee Share Ownership Plan with an employer match.
- Paid Parental Leave program.
- Paid time off: Sick days, floater days and volunteer day off.
- Opportunity to contribute to a collective RRSP & TFSA.
- Training and development programs.
- Saputo Flex Program, flexible work setting (schedule/location/time off) according to department needs.
- Organized activities for employees and their families.
- Advantageous discounts on Saputo products.

Salary

- Salary offers will vary commensurate with experience, education, skills, and training.

STATEMENT ON AI

All applications are carefully considered by our Talent Acquisition team. Artificial Intelligence tools may be used in screening applications. Artificial Intelligence is not used to assess or select applications.

Saputo is an equal opportunity employer.

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