Manager, Global Product Portfolio

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

• Model portfolio scenarios (SKU cuts, additions, mix shifts) and highlight trade-offs for review

Position Title: Manager, Global Product Portfolio

Position Type: Regular - Full-Time

Requisition ID: 43919

In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences - together. With a customer-first mindset, we make doing business with McCain easy.

About The Role.

The Global Portfolio Manager, Snacking is responsible for leading the end-to-end global product portfolio strategy and governance across McCain’s Snacking business. This role balances short-term commercial priorities with long-term innovation and growth opportunities to deliver a scalable, profitable, and consumer-relevant portfolio. Partnering closely with regional leadership, innovation, marketing, finance, supply chain, and commercial teams, the role ensures portfolio decisions drive customer, consumer, category, and business performance while enabling speed to market and global scale.

What You’ll Be Doing.

Portfolio Strategy & Planning

• 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

Portfolio Governance

• Manage the end-to-end operational rhythm of portfolio governance
• Ensure all markets and functions adhere to global portfolio guardrails (SKU tiering, complexity thresholds, minimum volume requirements)
• Maintain visibility on sunsetting, consolidation, and reformulation projects; track progress and flag misalignments or delays to the Senior Director
• Prepare decision-support packages with data, insights, and options for governance councils or leadership forums
• Own and update the master portfolio database, ensuring data integrity, consistency, and accessibility for stakeholders
• Surface governance risks or non-compliance, with recommendations for resolution
• Conduct regular reviews of the portfolio to identify SKUs outside agreed governance parameters (e.g., low velocity, duplication, brand misalignment)
• Liaise between regions and global functions to ensure local portfolio decisions align with global standards

Innovation

• Oversee in-market performance tracking against business cases and KPIs, monitoring innovations’ success and understanding implications for our global portfolio
• Support alignment with global supply and regional marketing teams to enable product launches, transitions and discontinuations
• Champion continuous improvement in ways of working – sourcing new methods, tools and techniques (including AI-enabled approaches) to support greater speed, and scalability

Cross-Functional Partnership & Execution

• Partner with Supply Chain & procurement to ensure we can successfully scale the portfolio
• Communicate clear rationale for portfolio choices with Global Marketing to build compelling, evidence-based selling stories and business cases that give the organisation confidence to act
• Build relationships with MDs, sales and customer teams to ensure we are customer obsessed
• Work with Finance to analyze commercial performance at SKU-level to maximize commercialization
• Analyze and interpret pricing and promotional performance — looking beyond "actual price" to the "presentation of price" to understand implications for our portfolio’s architecture

Communication & People Leadership

• Communicate portfolio recommendations clearly and persuasively to business leadership
• Manage, coach and develop direct report(s), supporting them on their plans and initiatives
• Champion learning and development across the team

What You’ll Need To Be Successful.

• 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.
• Proficiency with Excel, Power BI, and AI-enabled business tools.
• Proven ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and drive alignment across complex, global organizations.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and storytelling skills, with the ability to simplify complex analyses into actionable recommendations.
• Experience managing and developing team members is preferred.

About The Team.

The Global Snacking team is responsible for shaping and accelerating McCain’s growth within the snacking category. Working across regions and functions, the team develops portfolio strategies, drives innovation, and ensures strong governance practices that support customer needs and business performance. This role collaborates closely with Innovation, Marketing, Finance, Supply Chain, Procurement, Sales, and Regional Leadership teams to execute a globally aligned and locally relevant snacking portfolio strategy.

About McCain.

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Leadership principles.

At McCain, our leadership principles guide how we engage with customers, collaborate as a team, and achieve success. We focus on understanding customer needs, driving innovation, empowering people, and taking ownership to clear obstacles and deliver results.

AI & Digital Capabilities.

At McCain, AI and digital capabilities are part of how we work and innovate. We value curiosity toward emerging technologies and the thoughtful, responsible use of AI-enabled tools to improve outcomes as part of our future-ready culture.

The McCain Experience.

We are McCain. This statement is a testament to our collective strength and our individual value. Your contributions play a vital role in our success. Our winning culture is rooted in authenticity and trust, empowering us to bring out the best in one another. Here, you’ll find opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Join us and experience why we’re better together.

Our purpose is grounded in building meaningful relationships. We’re big believers in the power of working together in person—it helps us stay connected, collaborate more effectively, and grow as a team. At the same time, we recognize the importance of flexibility. Most office-based roles follow a hybrid model, with the option to work remotely two days a week. There may be exceptions depending on the role and location, so we encourage you to speak with your recruiter for more details.

Compensation Package: $97,500.00 - $130,000.00 . CAD annually + Bonus Eligibility

The above reflects the target compensation range for the position at the time of posting. Hiring compensation will be determined based on experience, skill set, education and training, and other organizational needs. This posting is for an existing vacancy.

Benefits: At McCain, we’re on a mission to create a winning culture that puts employee safety and well-being at the heart of what we do, every day. We understand and appreciate that each person’s needs are unique and ensure our benefits & well-being programs reflect that. Employees are eligible for the following benefits: health coverage (medical, dental, vision, prescription drug), retirement savings benefits, and leave support including medical, family and bereavement. Well-being programs include vacation and holidays, company-supported volunteering time, and mental health resources. Coverages are aligned with applicable law and can vary by work level, location, and nature of the role. Additional benefit detail available during the application process.

Your well-being matters to us, and we’re here to provide you with the necessary resources to support you in being your best self at work — and at home.

McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know, and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions.

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Job Family: Marketing

Location(s): CA - Canada : Ontario : Toronto

Company: McCain Foods (Canada)