Global Snacking Portfolio Lead

McCain Foods; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 98,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Competitive compensation

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

McCain Foods is seeking a Global Product Portfolio Manager to lead end-to-end strategy and governance for the Snacking portfolio. The role balances short-term commercial priorities with long-term growth opportunities, coordinating with regional teams, innovation, marketing, and finance to ensure a scalable and profitable portfolio.

You will oversee portfolio lifecycle, data integrity, and governance, driving speed to market and alignment across regions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Finance, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in CPG marketing, portfolio management, category management, or related commercial leadership roles.
• Experience managing multi-brand and/or multi-category portfolios, preferably within Retail, Foodservice, and QSR channels.
• Strong strategic thinking and commercial acumen with the ability to balance growth opportunities and profitability objectives.
• Demonstrated success leveraging consumer, category, market, and financial data to influence portfolio and business decisions.
• Advanced analytical and modeling capabilities, including experience with P&L analysis, pricing strategies, ROI evaluation, and scenario planning.

Responsibilities

• Develop and lead the global portfolio strategy, aligned to overall commercial and brand objectives including portfolio architecture, and tiering strategies.
• Execute the strategy by identifying and leading the global scaling of winning/power product SKUs.
• Identify category and portfolio opportunities based on consumer, market and competitor insight.
• Lead the portfolio lifecycle across regions, including the rationalization process, managing timelines, data collection and regional inputs.
• Maintain global SKU database and dashboards, tracking key metrics such as SKU count, velocity, profitability, and scalability.
• Model portfolio scenarios (SKU cuts, additions, mix shifts) and highlight trade-offs for review.
• Prepare fact-based analyses and business cases to support portfolio decision-making.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Analytical skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication & storytelling

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Finance, or related field

Tools

Excel

Power BI

AI-enabled tools

Job description

McCain Foods is seeking a Global Product Portfolio Manager to lead end-to-end strategy and governance for the Snacking portfolio. The role balances short-term commercial priorities with long-term growth opportunities, coordinating with regional teams, innovation, marketing, and finance to ensure a scalable and profitable portfolio.

You will oversee portfolio lifecycle, data integrity, and governance, driving speed to market and alignment across regions.