Saputo announced an evolution of its organisational structure designed to strengthen the company’s ability to execute its strategic priorities, enhance commercial execution within its ingredient business, accelerate enterprise transformation and support continued expansion of its ingredients platform.

“As Saputo continues to evolve its portfolio and invest in growth opportunities, it is important that our organizational structure evolves alongside our business,” said Carl Colizza, president and chief executive officer. “These changes are intended to increase organisational focus, strengthen accountability, and improve execution across key strategic priorities. This is about ensuring we have the right structure to support our future ambitions and create sustainable value for our stakeholders.”

As demand for higher-value dairy ingredients continues to grow globally, Saputo is creating a dedicated ingredients division to accelerate innovation, strengthen commercial focus, and expand opportunities across global markets.

Steve Douglas has been appointed president and chief operating officer, ingredients, where he will be responsible for leading the division’s commercial, operational, innovation, and growth initiatives. Douglas will also remain president and chief operating officer, dairy division (UK), until the completion of the previously announced sale of the dairy division (UK).

Saputo has also created the role of chief enterprise transformation officer, to be led by Haig Poutchigian. In this newly created post, Poutchigian will lead the integration of the business administration and operational finance, as well as information technology teams into a single enterprise services model.

The new structure is intended to improve consistency, visibility and scalability across the enterprise. By bringing these capabilities together, Saputo expects to streamline processes, reduce complexity, improve coordination, and accelerate execution, while supporting productivity, automation, and data-driven decision-making across the enterprise.

Meanwhile, Dave Paradis has been appointed president and chief operating officer, dairy division (Canada). In this role, Paradis will lead Saputo’s Canadian operations,

“Throughout our history, Saputo has continually evolved to meet the changing needs of our customers, consumers, and markets,” adds Colizza. “These changes represent the next step in that evolution and will help ensure we remain well positioned to compete, grow, and create value in the years ahead.”