At Saputo, we bring good to the table by making high-quality products, investing in our people, and supporting communities around the world . As a top 10 global dairy processor, we value contributions that matter and strive to foster an inclusive, growth-driven work environment. Ready to bring your best?
Overview of the role:
Saputo is looking for an IT Project Manager (Infrastructure / Cybersecurity specialization) to join our IT PMO team. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a dynamic global team in a company leveraging technology to innovate, modernize, and create value across the organization. As a member of the Saputo PMO, you will be expected to lead through influence, bring teams together, and drive the successful delivery of strategic technology initiatives. You will plan, manage, and deliver a wide variety of high impact IT projects across our organization, with a focus on major Cybersecurity and IT Infrastructure projects, including but not limited to cloud migrations, global hardware refreshes, and end-of-service lifecycle initiatives. Your ability to communicate with and collaborate IT and business stakeholders from all levels will be key to your success.As part of this role, you may be required to deliver other key strategic projects for the Organization outside of the Infrastructure / Cybersecurity specialization based on resource demands.
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.
As a Project Manager, you will:
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. You are responsible for establishing 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 as well as recommendations for adjustments as necessary. You will ensure the timely communication of relevant project information to all affected team members, including changes to the plans, team structure, commitments, and project dependencies.
Have strong leadership skills and provides guidance and support to optimize the performance of a diverse team, leads through influence indirect reports, and ensures that the project team follows all quality assurance processes, including periodic reviews and transitions.
Manage internal and external relationships and coordinates 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.
Have a well-rounded Project Management knowledge base and the ability to quickly pickup and deliver projects across various applications and platforms.
You will also coach and support other IT resources assuming Project Lead roles, contribute to the development of PMO Processes, Tools and Methodology.
How you will make contributions that matter:
Reporting to the Director, IT PMO, Projects and Portfolio and working collaboratively with your stakeholders as well as the project, change management, and training teams, the Project Manager is responsible for:
Work Planning and Deliverable Management: You will adapt the PMO Work Planning processes and tools to the projects at hand and will maintain work plans, continuously monitoring actuals, and resolving/addressing cost and schedule variances. You will leverage the Deliverable Management process and tool to…