It Senior Project Manager

Chez Saputo, ce que nous avons de meilleur vient de nos employés. Nous formons une équipe talentueuse et attentionnée, riche d’une longue histoire d’excellence. Depuis nos premiers jours, alors qu’on livrait du fromage à vélo, nous sommes devenus un transformateur laitier de classe mondiale en restant fidèles à la culture qui nous définit. Chacun de nos employés est engagé à maintenir avec soin notre tradition de qualité et de passion grâce aux aliments. Ensemble, nous favorisons un environnement où nous pouvons tous apporter des contributions qui comptent – de nos usines de transformation à nos bureaux et partout entre les deux.
Overview Of The Role
As a Senior Project Manager at Saputo, 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.
As a Senior Project Manager, you will:

• Manage third party relationships and monitors their progress and adherence to the contract.
• 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.
• You will also coach and support other IT resources assuming Project Lead roles, contribute to the development of PMO Processes, Tools and Methodology.
• Work effectively in a multi-site delivery model.
• Determine the project approach, work breakdown structure, staffing, deliverables, and schedule and is responsible for creating the project work plan and maintaining control of the project scope, estimates, schedule, costs, and external dependencies.
• Have a well-rounded Project Management knowledge base and the ability to quickly pickup and deliver projects across various applications and platforms.
• 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.

How You Will Make Contributions That Matter:
Reporting to the IT Director, PMO and working collaboratively with your stakeholders as well as the project, change management, and training teams, the Project Manager is responsible for:

• Performance and Reporting Management: You will 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.
• Contribute to the improvement of the PMO Tools and Processes, coach, and support IT resources in the development of their project management skills.
• Issue/Risk Management/Quality: You will enforce the timely capture of project risks and issues by all team members, and will 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.
• Working with the IT PMO team to define and manage the required quality gates to perform quality planning, quality assurance, and quality control activities. You will be responsible for getting the Deliverable signoffs from the various stakeholders and ensuring that all expectations are met.
• Scope Management: You will operationalize the pre-defined PMO Scope Management Process to control the project scope and requirements. You will present scope changes meeting the pre-defined threshold to the Saputo IT leadership Committee for approval.
• Resource Management: You will be responsible for managing 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.
• 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 track the timely completion of all project Deliverables to the baselines.

You Are Best Suited for The Role If You Have the Following Qualifications:

• Ability to operate in complex, fast-paced project environment with interdependencies spanning multiple work-streams, teams, business divisions, geographies, time zones, & languages.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a delivery team
• Project Management certification or successful completion of a recognized project management curriculum (i.e. PMP, Prince II)
• 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 managing a global Deployment is an asset
• Experience with several project delivery methodologies (waterfall, agile, scrum etc.)
• French/English bilingual competency is an asset
• Ability to multitask and manage competing priorities under pressure
• Ability to coordinate 20+ shared resources and collaborate at all levels. Strong people management skills including delegation, motivation, coaching, and conflict management capabilities.
• Preferably a minimum of 8 years of total IT project delivery experience, of which 3-5 years include managing full delivery lifecycle as well as managing a diverse team
• Experience managing packaged software and SaaS implementation methodologies. Cross functional exposure, including Manufacturing, Supply Chain and HR/Payroll an asset
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Information Systems, Engineering, Business Administration, or equivalent work experience
• Experience delivering large projects or complex application delivery
• Must have experience delivering SAP projects
• Expert-level proficiency in MS Office (i.e. Word, PowerPoint, MS Project Professional and Excel) and SharePoint.

We support and care for our employees and their families by providing:

• Full range of group insurance benefits
• Health and wellness program in the workplace
• Group RRSP
• Competitive salaries
• Group retirement pension plan with employer contribution
• Purchase option of company stocks
• Advantageous corporate agreements
• Saputo products at a discounted price
• Assistance program for employees and their families

We support employment equity. Saputo strives to embed diversity and inclusion in its operations and invites candidates from all horizons to join its family.
Notre histoire a commencé au Canada en 1954, lorsque le travail acharné et le dévouement de la famille Saputo ont créé une Société laitière florissante. Plus de 65 ans plus tard, nos racines canadiennes demeurent ancrées profondément avec notre siège social situé à Montréal. Aujourd’hui, nous sommes l’un des principaux fabricants de fromage et transformateurs de lait nature et de crème au Canada, avec des marques bien-aimées, telles que Saputo, Alexis de Portneuf, Armstrong, Baxter, Dairyland, Joyya, Lait’s Go, Lait’s Go Sport, Neilson, Nutrilait, Scotsburn* et Woolwich Goat Dairy. Grâce à notre présence nationale, nous sommes fiers de donner le meilleur de nous-mêmes à nos clients et consommateurs, et nous offrons à nos employés de nombreuses occasions de se développer à leur manière. Nous travaillons également à la construction d’un avenir plus sain pour nos employés et les collectivités où nous exerçons nos activités, guidés par nos valeurs et par la promesse Saputo. Pour en savoir plus sur Saputo au Canada, cliquez ici. (http://saputo.com/en/our-products/canada-sector)
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