Senior Product & Portfolio Manager Europe

Location: Amsterdam Netherlands

Hybrid

About the position

The Senior Product & Portfolio Manager is accountable for leading defined parts of the European product and innovation agenda shaping portfolio strategy managing priority pipelines and deliveringhighimpactinnovation and renovation.

Reporting to the Head of Product & Portfolio Europe the role acts as a portfolio architect and delivery leader translating strategic growth priorities into robust roadmaps validated concepts and commercially successful launches. Operating within a matrixed European and globalorganisation the Senior Product & Portfolio Manager partners closely with local Marketing teams R&D Supply Chain Procurement Finance EU Route to Market and Regulatory teams to ensure innovations areconsumerled scalable and operationally viable.

This role combines strategic portfolio thinking withhandsonexecution andplays a critical role in strengthening innovation capability and decision quality to drive growth across Europe.

Impact & Responsibilities
You own defined segments of the European product and portfolio roadmap ensuring alignment with company strategy growth priorities consumer needs and sustainability commitments. You shape and prioritise the innovation and renovation pipelinewithincategory balancing growth potential risk and resource allocation while supporting local teams to deliver in line with strategy. You lead cross-functional teams end-to-end from concept and business case through to launch and post-launch optimisation and you track performance to continuously improve future portfolio decisions. You act as a key partner to Marketing leadership ensuring strong integration between brand and innovation agendas.

Innovation & Portfolio Management
Youidentifyconsumer category and whitespace opportunities using insights trends and competitiveanalysis translating them into actionable product and portfolio plans. You build strong business cases and governance materials to enable high-quality and efficient decision-making. Youchampionconsumer-centric ways of working including testing prototyping and iterative learning while ensuring innovation delivers measurable growth and margin impact. Youmaintainvisibility on portfolio health proactively managing risks dependencies and resource constraints and support longer-term portfolio scenarios and investment planning.

Stakeholder Management & Communication
You influence and align stakeholders across Marketing R&D Supply Chain Finance Sales and Regulatory often without direct authority. You clearly present portfolio trade-offs recommendations and performance updates to senior leadership bringing a strong consumer-led perspective and contributing to strategic discussions.

What Does It Take to Be Successful

We are looking for an experienced professional with 812 years experience in FMCG innovation portfolio management brandmarketingor related commercial roles with a strongtrack recordof translating consumer insights and strategic direction into scalable high-impact product pipelines. You bring strong commercial acumen with proven ability to build business casesprioritiseinvestments and link innovation to tangible growth outcomes and haveoperatedsuccessfully within complex matrixed European or global environments. You combine deepexpertisein innovation strategyportfolioand lifecycle management with a strong understanding of stage-gate and agile methodologies consumer insight frameworks and cross-functional dynamics across R&D Supply Chain Finance Sales and Regulatory. Strategically minded yet hands-on you are a proactive self-starter who takes ownership drives decisions under uncertainty and builds alignment across diverse stakeholders while contributing to the development of innovation and portfolio capabilities within teams. ABachelors degree in Marketing Business or a related field isrequired with an MBA or equivalent postgraduate qualification considered a plus.

Whats Next

If this position sounds interesting please hit theapplybutton now!If you have additional questions you can send me Alice Graca an email to.

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