Manager, Integrated Business Planning

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?

Overview Of The Role

Saputo Dairy Products Canada G.P. is looking for a candidate with experience to lead the operational and tactical execution of the Integrated Business Process (IBP). This role ensures the IBP process remains on track and effectively addresses business and planning challenges and involves supporting the organization with problem solving, process design, tool creation and providing analytical support to all departments as needed.

Saputo offers a hybrid work arrangement, giving employees an ability to enjoy reasonable flexibility between working in office and working from home.

Salary: $88,325 to $115,930. Salary offers will vary commensurate with experience, education, skills and training.

We support and take care of our employees and their families by offering:

• Vacation upon hire.
• 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.
• Advantageous discounts on Saputo products.

• Lead the monthly IBP process in accordance with Oliver Wight standards.
• Shape the process through design team meetings, supporting owners and leaders for each IBP step.
• Co-lead the Demand and Supply Review meetings – Set agenda, execute tasks and prepare for meetings.
• Ensure all plans, action items, and decisions are effectively communicated and integrated into subsequent process steps.
• Ensure that decisions from the meeting are being executed in each function/department/team. Work with process owners on required escalation items.
• Develop, track, and report key metrics to monitor the effectiveness of process decisions to identify progress, root causes for correction or process improvement across supply chain, sales and finance functions.

• Ensure adherence to IBP Stage Gate Process – track actions and discussions regarding projects to other IBP steps as needed.
• Facilitate the achievement of commercial objectives (volume, share and financial growth) by coordinating actions between various IBP steps and departments.

• Lead the development of 3-24 month statistical and predictive time-series forecast models in collaboration with the Demand Planning and Sales teams, building consensus and documenting key assumptions.
• Develop a 3-year growth projection for product categories based on sales trends and insights from Market Insights team.
• Maintain and update an accurate database of business opportunities and risks in collaboration with Sales and SBD (Product, Revenue Management) teams, acting as the single point of contact for this information across the organization.
• Lead the annual demand (volume) budget creation.
• Track demand gaps against targets and lead gap closure discussions.

• Translate Demand Plans and scenarios to plant/equipment level to identify capacity utilization.
• Conduct what-if analyses to create supply scenarios and documents assumptions.
• Identify supply deficits, and cost overruns. Synthesize recommended solutions based on alternatives and their impacts on business needs.

• Collaborate with finance to convert volume projections to financial metrics.
• Liaise with different functions to support evaluation of business cases for capacity projects.
• Create executive summaries for the Senior Leadership Team from other IBP Steps and seek decisions as needed.

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Operations Management or related quantitative field.
• MBA and/or Masters in Supply Chain Management considered an asset.
• APICS supply chain certifications considered an asset.
• 3-5 years of Supply, Demand or Capacity Planning experience related to the dairy, food or consumer packaged goods industry.
• Must have experience participating or running an S&OP / IBP process for at least 2-3 years in prior roles.
• Must have Working knowledge of product innovation process, demand and supply planning, capacity planning and financial statements.
• Must have strong analytical background with a sound understanding of statistics.
• Must have advanced knowledge of Excel and presentation design.
• Experience with advanced analytical tools such as RStudio/Python and PowerBI/Tableau is an asset.
• Recognized leadership and autonomy, excellent communication, planning and work organization skills.
• Team oriented and strong ability to engage and people.
• Bilingual, French and English, an asset.

This year, Saputo is celebrating 70 years of passion and craftsmanship!

In Canada, Saputo is a leading cheese manufacturer and fluid milk and cream processor, with a portfolio of well-loved brands such as Dairyland, Armstrong, Neilson, Alexis de Portneuf, and many more. Whether your expertise lies in manufacturing, operations, supply chain management, sales, quality assurance, or in any other function, your role is integral to our success. You will make contributions that matter, all while working alongside colleagues who genuinely care about your success and who will roll up their sleeves to help.

Saputo welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations may be available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.