Senior Director, Revenue Management

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 is seeking a Senior Director Revenue Management North America.

The Senior Director Revenue Management leads Saputo North Americas revenue management agenda across Canada and the United States to deliver sustainable profitable growth across customers channels categories and products. This role integrates pricing trade investment promotion effectiveness mix and assortment and portfolio profitability into one disciplined commercial framework. The Senior Director partners with Sales Marketing Finance Supply Chain Operations Category & Product Management Commercial R&D and Technology to translate market customer commodity and cost dynamics into fact-based decisions and consistent execution.

As a senior commercial thought leader the Senior Director establishes governance analytics tools and decision forums that improve pricing accuracy strengthen return on trade investment accelerate insights and build an integrated revenue management capability across Saputo North America while enabling market-specific execution in Canada and the United States.

How you will make contributions that matter:

Revenue Management Strategy & Governance

• Own and evolve the Saputo North America revenue management strategy operating model multi-year roadmap and performance scorecard in alignment with business and commercial priorities.
• Integrate the core revenue growth levers of pricing promotions trade terms mix assortment channel strategy and portfolio optimization.
• Align North American standards with country-specific market conditions customer structures commercial practices and business priorities to drive consistency without limiting local agility.
• Establish decision rights approval thresholds guardrails and governance for pricing trade investment promotions bids contracts and new business opportunities.
• Define clear North American and country-level decision rights escalation paths and accountability across the Canadian and U.S. businesses.
• Lead pricing and revenue management forums ensuring decisions assumptions risks approvals and follow-up actions are documented and communicated.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior Sales Finance Category & Product Marketing Operations and Supply Chain leaders constructively challenging assumptions and recommending action.

Pricing Strategy Architecture & Execution

• Lead market-based pricing strategies that reflect commodity movements inflation supply chain costs cost-to-serve competitive dynamics and customer value.
• Oversee periodic and event-driven price reviews scenario modeling financial evaluation sales materials customer transition plans and execution of approved price changes.
• Develop and maintain price corridors floors exception protocols validation controls and pricing policies that improve consistency and reduce value leakage.
• Optimize ERP-enabled price data maintenance routines and controls to improve pricing accuracy transparency and monthly price-change execution.
• Partner with Sales on complex negotiations and customer conversations balancing profitable growth customer needs and volume risk.

Trade Investment & Promotion Effectiveness

• Own the governance and optimization of total trade investment including planning standards approval criteria accrual alignment performance tracking and post-event review.
• Establish consistent pre- and post-promotion evaluation methods using incremental volume revenue margin return on investment and strategic objectives.
• Identify non-productive spend value leakage and underperforming events; partner with commercial teams to redirect investment toward higher-return opportunities.
• Maintain promotional guidelines and embed lessons learned into customer plans annual planning and future investment decisions.

Customer Channel & Portfolio Profitability

• Lead recurring diagnostics across Canada and the United States including customers channels categories brands and SKUs to identify performance drivers risks and corrective actions.
• Advance category and portfolio profitability by prioritizing opportunities in mix assortment product rationalization and route-to-market economics.
• Develop actions for the highest- and lowest-performing customers and SKUs including margin improvement cost-to-serve terms freight and commercialization opportunities.
• Create clear North American executive reporting that connects price volume mix trade freight currency and cost movements to net sales and margin outcomes with visibility to consolidated and country-level performance.

New Business Bids & Commercial Decision Support

• Support the financial and strategic evaluation of bids new customers private label co-manufacturing innovation and other business development opportunities.
• Apply defined guardrails and scenario analysis to assess profitability capacity factory utilization service requirements risk and incremental growth.
• Maintain scalable bid and tender tools decision records and post-launch scorecards to confirm performance against approved business cases.

Planning Forecasting & Performance Management

• Co-lead North American net sales and customer margin planning with Sales Operations and Finance including consolidated country channel customer category and product views.
• Lead in-year forecasting and scenario planning for price volume mix trade freight commodity exposure and customer margin performance.
• Provide timely diagnostics for weekly monthly quarterly and annual business reviews highlighting causals outlook risks opportunities and recommended actions.
• Partner with Finance on close-related revenue management activities including customer expense classification true-ups pricing factors and relevant commodity or hedging impacts.

Data Digital Enablement & Advanced Analytics

• Define the North American revenue management data reporting and technology roadmap including ERP trade promotion customer syndicated market.
• Improve data quality common definitions master data model governance and controls so leaders can make decisions from trusted information.
• Harmonize revenue management definitions performance measures and reporting across Canada and the United States to enable comparable insights and coordinated decision-making.
• Champion responsible use of advanced analytics automation and AI-enabled decision support for elasticity scenario modeling promotion optimization forecasting and opportunity identification.
• Ensure analytical methods remain explainable validated appropriately governed and paired with commercial judgment.
• Drive adoption of self-service dashboards and standardized tools while preserving clear accountability for decisions and outcomes.

You are best suited for the role if you have the following qualifications:

• 10 years of progressive experience in revenue management commercial finance sales operations pricing category management or a related commercial discipline.
• Leadership experience in consumer-packaged goods food and beverage dairy or another complex customer-driven manufacturing environment.
• Bachelors degree in business Finance Economics Marketing Analytics Supply Chain or related discipline or equivalent relevant degree or advanced professional qualification in Business Finance Analytics or a related field is preferred.
• Demonstrated experience leading teams and influencing senior cross-functional stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through a matrixed multi-country organization and influence senior stakeholders across Canada and the United States.
• Deep experience in pricing trade investment promotion analytics customer profitability forecasting and commercial decision support.
• Experience translating complex data into clear recommendations business cases and executable commercial actions.
• Working knowledge of commodity- and cost-driven pricing dynamics customer negotiations and commercialization processes.
• Experience with ERP and commercial analytics environments; ability to lead processes data and technology improvement.
• Experience with SAP and trade promotion pricing syndicated data visualization and advanced analytics platforms.
• Experience establishing or maturing a multi-country revenue growth management capability across multiple channels customer segments and business models.
• Exposure to elasticity modeling assortment optimization AI-enabled analytics and model governance.

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

• Benefit coverage (medical & dental)
• Group retirement plan with employer contribution
• Telemedicine and assistance program for employees and their families
• 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

Salary: $173685 - $227960

*Salary offers will vary commensurate with experience education skills and training.

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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.

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