What You'll Do:

• Capital Portfolio Planning and Governance:
  • Provide enterprise-aligned leadership and governance for the Downstream capital portfolio, including maintenance, growth, optimization, and strategic initiatives
  • Lead the five-year capital planning process and development of the annual capital plan, ensuring alignment with Downstream strategy and operational priorities
  • Review, challenge, and approve capital requests within delegated authority, ensuring alignment with business objectives, risk tolerance, and capital governance standards
  • Represent Downstream capital priorities and recommendations in capital committees and executive governance forums
  • Monitor portfolio performance and proactively identify risks, trade-offs, and reallocation opportunities to optimize capital outcomes
• Portfolio Management & Reporting:
  • Manage intake for project ideation and requests, and evaluate relative to capital allocation criteria
  • Own consolidated capital forecasting, reporting, and variance analysis for the Downstream business
  • Communicate portfolio-level risks, cost trends, schedule impacts, and mitigation plans to senior leadership
  • Ensure consistent use of enterprise portfolio and project management systems to support transparency, control, and decision-making
  • Develop and maintain KPIs and dashboards to track portfolio health, execution efficiency, and value realization
• Downstream Capital Execution:
  • Provide leadership oversight for the Construction team, which is responsible for executing the full cycle construction process of Downstream assets from design to completion. This includes architectural design, project and contractor management, as well as project budgeting and actual spend accounting
  • Define and champion standardized, right-sized capital and project management methodologies across Downstream, leveraging the expertise of the Construction team
  • Steward effective collaboration with the regional retail operations team to set asset standards and prioritize the capital project pipeline
  • Drive continuous improvement in project delivery performance, cost control, and schedule discipline
  • Build capital and project management capability through coaching, standards, and best-practice sharing across regions
• Cross-Functional & Enterprise Collaboration:
  • Partner with Retail Operations, FP&A, Procurement, Enterprise Capital, Valuations and other corporate teams to ensure integrated planning and execution
  • Regularly report to enterprise capital governance committees on the capital plan, priorities, and actual spend to budget
  • Balance enterprise governance requirements with local operational realities in collaboration with regional leaders
  • Support alignment of Downstream capital processes with Nutrien-wide capital governance frameworks
  • Engage with innovation, growth, and optimization teams to support pilot programs and emerging investment opportunities

What You'll Bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Finance, Business, Supply Chain, or a related discipline
• 15+ years of progressive experience in capital planning, portfolio management, or large-scale project management within asset-intensive environments including 5+ years in a people leadership role
• Demonstrated experience managing multi-year, enterprise-scale capital portfolios
• Strong financial acumen, including capital budgeting, forecasting, and investment evaluation
• Proven ability to lead through influence in complex, matrixed organizations
• Strong understanding of Ag Retail branch network operations preferred
• Master’s degree (MBA or equivalent) preferred
• PMP or equivalent project management certification preferred