Saputo Inc.

Manager

• Oversee and manage the facility’s Environmental Management System (EMS), systematically ensuring environmental compliance and driving progress against our sustainability goals – energy, water, and waste.
• Serve as the plant’s environmental advisor, change agent and specialist.
• Engage and collaborate closely with teams across the plant structure that includes operations, maintenance, sustainability, compliance, engineering, and sanitation.
• Determine where to focus efforts and develop tactical plans for delivering on identified goals towards reduction of energy, water and waste.
• Seek out and advocate for the resources required to implement the facility’s Environmental Management System (EMS).
• Monitor and measure the facility’s environmental KPIs to ensure plans are delivering the desired results and to cultivate insights into opportunities for improvement.
• Advocate and facilitate action for continual environmental performance improvement.

Environmental Management Systems Manager

Architect

• 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 as well as recommendations for adjustments as necessary.
• Ensure the timely communication of relevant project information to all affected team members, including changes to the plans, team structure, commitments, and project dependencies.
• Provide guidance and support to optimize the performance of a diverse team, lead through influence indirect reports, and ensure that 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.
• 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.
• Coach and support other IT resources assuming Project Lead roles, contribute to the development of PMO Processes, Tools and Methodology.
• 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.
• 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.
• Leverage the pre-defined PMO processes, tools, and techniques to ensure timely and appropriate generation, and distribution of project progress and status information to project stakeholders.
• Manage the resources of the project, including the capacity, defining the roles and responsibilities, creating a staffing plan, obtaining appropriate skilled resources, and managing shared capacity.
• Enforce the timely capture of project risks and issues by all team members, track, manage, resolve, or escalate project problems that impact the project's ability to meet the IT commitments as they pertain to schedule, resources, costs, quality.
• Lead relationships with external vendors and system integrators, including 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.
• Work with the IT PMO team to define and manage the required quality gates to perform quality planning, quality assurance, and quality control activities.
• Ensure that all expectations are met and get the Deliverable signoffs from the various stakeholders.
• Contribute to the improvement of the PMO Tools and Processes, coach, and support IT resources in the development of their project management skills.

IT Architect, PMO

Operations

• Responsible for overseeing warehouse performance at designated locations; evaluate and act on KPIs to meet objectives in safety, quality, service (OTIF), cost, and inventory accuracy.
• Champion a proactive employee and food safety culture; ensure regulatory compliance and adoption of hazard identification, root‑cause analysis, and corrective/preventive actions in partnership with EHS and Quality.
• Develop warehouse leaders via succession planning, coaching, and performance management; build bench strength for ready‑now talent and promotions.
• Ensure standard work, SOPs, and best practices are applied consistently across all locations.
• Work on process improvement through site visits, performance analysis and coaching.
• Lead problem‑solving using root cause analysis and structured CI; standardize and scale solutions that deliver measurable impact.
• Own site and network P&L objectives (labor, MHE leasing, storage, R&M, cost of quality); deliver budget and productivity commitments through disciplined planning and variance management.
• Ensure inventory control measures are maintained for all finished and semi-finished goods within the warehouse.
• Drive harmonization of processes and systems (WMS/ERP), partnering with BPO/IT and the Key‑User network to sustain adoption.
• Partner with Transportation, Customer Service, Supply/Demand Planning, Quality, Manufacturing, Finance, and IT to meet service commitments, drive efficiencies and complete projects related to network optimization, automation implementation, system upgrades, product launches, etc.
• Identify and lead initiatives that improve safety technology, labor efficiency, space utilization, automation, and overall operational performance at specific sites and across a network of 25+ internal warehouse locations.
• Demonstrate a Customer First mindset by developing strategies to enhance our customer service and our growth, focusing on deliveries that are on-time, in-full and defect-free.
• Work directly with and challenge other cross-functional teams in the organization to identify efficiency opportunities. Assist them in determining solutions that will allow Saputo to achieve objectives in the areas of profit, growth and customer satisfaction.
• Take charge of the department's budgeting by regularly reviewing financial reports and managing the yearly budget process.
• Collaborate with the team to identify both immediate and future staffing requirements, considering projected business volume, site-specific challenges, and potential growth opportunities.
• Initiate, coordinate and oversee major projects within your sites; such as layout changes, equipment upgrades, warehouse capacity needs, utilization, capital expenses, automation installation, etc.
• Keep current on information and technology affecting functional areas to increase innovation and make appropriate recommendations to senior leadership as necessary.
• Manage employee performance and assist employees in making improvements to their performance through coaching, mentoring and administering performance reviews.
• Recommend, plan and/or implement employee training and skill development activities.
• Travel 60% of the time to support sites’ performance, initiative teams, projects, and other deliverables. Combination of office, warehouse, and cold‑chain environments; PPE compliance required at sites.

Environmental Management Systems Manager

IT Architect, PMO

Regional Manager, Warehouse Operations