IT Director – Portfolio and Project Management

Saputo Inc.

IT Director leading portfolio and project management for a global dairy processor. Ensuring IT projects align with business goals and delivered effectively with high performance.

Posted 6/5/2026full-timeSaint-Laurent • 🇨🇦 CanadaLead💰 CA$148,875 - CA$195,400 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

ERP

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the intake of IT demand across divisions and functions, ensuring consistent capture, triage, and visibility of initiatives.
Drive a structured pipeline to assess, categorize, and advance initiatives through initiation and evaluation stages.
Own the end-to-end pipeline view, including forecasting, prioritization readiness, and overall pipeline health.
In partnership with the PMO governance function, lead annual and in-year portfolio planning cycles to align initiatives with business strategy, funding, and resource capacity.
Facilitate prioritization discussions with IT and business stakeholders, enabling informed trade-off decisions and clear execution priorities.
Own portfolio-level reporting, including pipeline status, project health, risks, dependencies, and key decisions required.
Provide oversight across projects to improve predictability, manage risk, and maintain alignment to commitments.
Lead a team that provides project management capability for Saputo’s most critical and complex initiatives.
Provide portfolio-level financial visibility across budget, forecast, and actuals to support decision-making.
Act as a central point of coordination across IT leadership, business stakeholders, and delivery teams.

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years of experience in IT project and portfolio management, PMO leadership, or enterprise delivery oversight
Experience in global CPG or other complex manufacturing environments
Proven success leading enterprise project portfolios and complex, cross-functional initiatives
Experience shaping and delivering IT initiatives from concept through execution using structured project delivery approaches
Demonstrated people leadership experience managing, coaching, and developing project managers and portfolio managers
Strong financial acumen related to portfolio planning, forecasting, and investment decision support
Experience operating in structured project lifecycle environments and large-scale enterprise programs
Strong communication, stakeholder management, and executive influencing skills
For candidates based in Quebec: fluency in both French and English is required, as the role involves regular communication with a diverse group of stakeholders
Experience in an environment where SAP is the primary ERP is an asset

Benefits

Comp & perks

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 environment (schedule/location/time off) according to department needs
Organized activities for employees and their families
Advantageous discounts on Saputo products

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Hard Skills & Tools

IT project managementportfolio managementPMO leadershipfinancial acumenproject delivery approachesrisk managementforecastingstakeholder managementexecutive influencingSAP

Soft Skills

people leadershipcoachingcommunicationcollaborationdecision-makingprioritizationorganizational skillsfacilitationstrategic alignmenttrade-off analysis