Portfolio Manager - Functional Complements F - M - X H/F - Mars
- Aimargues - 30
- CDI
- Mars
Les missions du poste
Description de poste:
Segment :Royal Canin
Type of contract :Permanent (CDI)
Location :Aimargues near Montpellier, France
Royal Canin's Functional Complements Centre of Expertise (COE) is a newly created global unit dedicated to building and scaling healthdriven categories such as Treats and Supplements. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape new categories, define the global innovation pipeline, and drive impactful growth in pet health nutrition.
What will be your key responsibilities?
- Define and lead the global portfolio vision and strategy for Functional Complements, with Treats as first priority
- Identify category trends, pet health needs, portfolio gaps, and growth opportunities across key regions
- Own and shape the 8year innovation pipeline, including frontend innovation and +2year roadmaps
- Lead endtoend global innovation projects through stagegate to successful market launch
- Develop and validate strong value propositions, covering product, packaging, and health benefit proof points
- Partner with R&D, Science, Regulatory, Supply, and Marketing to assess feasibility and scale winning concepts
- Secure effective global and regional deployment of innovations, including phased rollouts
- Manage portfolio budgets and contribute to shaping the operating model, ways of working, and culture of the COE
What profile we are looking for:
- Bachelor's degree in Business or Engineering; MBA is a plus
- Minimum 4 years' experience in strategic marketing within CPG or pharmaceuticals
- Strong innovation and portfolio management track record at global, regional, or local level
- Proven ability to build scalable value propositions delivering both health and business impact
- Strategic thinker with high learning agility and comfort navigating ambiguity
- Strong stakeholder management, storytelling, and influencing skills
- Datadriven, collaborative, proactive, and resultsoriented mindset
- Fluent in English; digital marketing knowledge is an advantage
What can you expect from Mars?
- You will work in a multicultural environment (more than 40 nationalities) and where your dog will be welcomed by more than 100 other Associates' dogs at the office!
- You will work in a unique campus, which gathers more than 800 Associates working for: the international HQ, the French subsidiary, two laboratories, a kennel and a cattery with more than 200 cats & dogs, and finally the most important factory of the Royal Canin group
- Since 2015, no waste to landfill is made by the 16 Royal Canin factories in the world
- All Royal Canin products manufactured in Europe are ISO 14001 certified from design to factory gate