Director, Project & Change Management

JOB REQUIREMENTS: 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? JOB DESCRIPTION The Director, Project and Change Management leads the ingredients division's operating rhythm, strategic initiative governance, and organizational change approach. As a trusted partner to the President and Senior Leadership Team, this role creates visibility and accountability across priorities, decisions, commitments, risks, and change initiatives to keep the division aligned and moving forward during ongoing operations and periods of transformation. How You Will Make Contributions That Matter PMO Leadership and Portfolio Governance * Lead the ingredients division's project management and strategic coordination framework, creating an integrated view of priorities, major initiatives, milestones, dependencies, risks, and decisions. * Maintain an integrated view of divisional priorities, milestones, dependencies, risks, decisions, and commitments without duplicating the delivery responsibilities held within individual functions. * Create visibility to milestones, dependencies, decisions, resource constraints, risks, and expected business outcomes across the portfolio. * Ensure initiatives are appropriately sequenced and aligned with divisional strategy, business capacity, and leadership priorities. * Identify cross-functional risks and dependencies that may not be visible within individual workstreams and elevate them for leadership action. * Challenge initiative and workstream leaders to address off-track commitments and develop credible recovery plans without assuming ownership of functional execution. * Continuously evaluate and evolve the PMO approach as the division's strategy, scale, and complexity change. Strategic Initiative Coordination * Serve as the central coordination point for the ingredients division's most significant cross-functional priorities and transformation efforts. * Provide the Division President and Senior Leadership Team with a single, integrated view of progress across major initiatives without duplicating the delivery responsibilities that reside within individual functions. * Partner with executive sponsors and workstream leaders to clarify objectives, scope, milestones, decision requirements, interdependencies, risks, and measures of success. * Escalate significant barriers, unresolved dependencies, and material deviations from agreed plans to the President or appropriate Senior Leadership Team member. * Design and lead the Senior Leadership Team's operating rhythm, including leadership meetings, business reviews, strategic planning sessions, decision forums, and off sites. * Partner with the President to determine meeting priorities, frame critical decisions, identify trade-offs, and direct leadership attention toward the most important business matters. * Integrate information and perspectives from across the division into a clear, trusted leadership view. * Drive follow-through between leadership meetings and ensure decisions, commitments, and unresolved issues remain visible through completion. Change Management and Communications * Set the communication strategy for major divisional initiatives and organizational changes, aligned with the broader change-management approach. * Translate business strategy, leadership decisions, and complex organizational changes into clear, credible, and actionable messages. * Lead the development of change-related executive communications, includ To view the full job description please use the link below. https://www.aplitrak.com/?adid=YmJnZW5lcmljLjg1MDM3Ljg3NzBAc2FwdXRvY29tcC5hcGxpdHJhay5jb20 ***** APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: Apply Online: ht ps://www.aplitrak.com/?adid=YmJnZW5lcmljLjg1MDM3Ljg3NzBAc2FwdXRvY29tcC5hcGxpdHJhay5jb20