IT Project Manager – Digital, AI specialization

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About the role

  • IT Project Manager leading AI, SaaS, digital platform, and automation initiatives at global dairy processor Saputo. Managing enterprise delivery, vendors, budgets, risks, and cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

  • Define and lead the project approach from concept through execution, including delivery strategy, work breakdown structure, staffing model, deliverables, and integrated project plan
  • Establish project scope, estimates, schedule, costs, assumptions, and external dependencies
  • Plan, manage, and deliver high-impact IT projects focused on AI use cases, SaaS implementations, digital platform deployments, process automation, data-driven solutions, and business transformation
  • Provide weekly progress reports to the Saputo IT Leadership Team covering risks, issues, decisions, and recommendations
  • Communicate project information, plan changes, team structure, commitments, and dependencies to affected stakeholders
  • Lead and guide diverse project teams through influence and ensure adherence to quality assurance processes
  • Manage internal and external relationships and coordinate work between global teams in a multi-site delivery model
  • Manage third-party vendors and system integrators, including vendor selection, contract negotiation, commercial governance, and delivery oversight
  • Adapt PMO work-planning processes and tools; maintain work plans and monitor actuals, costs, schedules, and variances
  • Track deliverables against baselines and obtain stakeholder signoffs
  • Control project scope and requirements and present threshold-exceeding scope changes for approval
  • Manage project resources, capacity, roles, responsibilities, staffing, and shared resources
  • Capture, manage, resolve, and escalate project risks and issues affecting schedule, resources, costs, and quality
  • Define statements of work, support contract negotiations, establish delivery governance, manage financials and change controls, and ensure vendor performance
  • Define and manage quality gates and perform quality planning, assurance, and control activities
  • Contribute to PMO tools, processes, and methodology improvements
  • Coach and support IT resources in project management skills

Requirements

  • Experience in manufacturing environments (Consumer Packaged Goods preferred) or related industry
  • 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
  • Experience reporting to and working with senior management and steering committees with stakeholders in IT and the Business
  • Strong Business Acumen
  • Experience managing Projects end to end from Initiation to Project Closure, including building Project Plans, managing resources, forecasting project budgets over $1M, tracking actuals, and leading Steering Committees
  • 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)
  • A minimum of 8 years of total IT project delivery experience, of which 3-5 years include leading full delivery lifecycle as well as managing a diverse team
  • Experience delivering large projects or programs with complex application delivery
  • Experience managing multiple system integrators
  • Experience managing a global Deployment is an asset
  • Experience delivering AI Use Case from Minimal 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 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 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 an asset
  • Expert-level proficiency in MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, MS Project Professional and Excel) and SharePoint
  • French/English bilingual competency is an asset
  • Product management knowledge or working experience is an 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 environment (schedule/location/time off) according to department needs
  • Organized activities for employees and their families
  • Advantageous discounts on Saputo products

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

SeniorLead

Salary

CA$92,795 - CA$121,795 per year

Degree requirement

Associate's Degree

Tech skills

PMP

Location requirements

HybridSaint LaurentCanada

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