Specialist Pet Brands & Dog Main Meal Portfolio Manager

Mars Pet Nutrition Europe

Hybrid – 1 day per week in office (location flexible across Europe)

£99K - £124K base + bonus + benefits

The Specialist Pet Brands & Dog Main Meal Portfolio Manager for Mars Pet Nutrition Europe (PNE) governs the portfolio strategies for Pedigree, Cesar, James Wellbeloved, Crave, Frolic and Chappie brands. We are looking for a candidate who can provide strategic thought leadership to drive the above brands within the Specialist Pet Trade (SPT) channel, grocery and Dcommerce.

What are we looking for?

• Significant experience in portfolio strategy work within consumer goods for regional or global organisations and/or management consultancy firms.
• Excellent business acumen.
• Strong analytical skills with ability to navigate through complexity & ambiguity.
• Proven leadership skills and a track record in building and maintaining collaborative relationship.
• The ability to drive vision & purpose within an organisation.

What will be your key responsibilities?

Category, Portfolio & Strategy

• Influence and leverage the global category vision to build the category story
• Focus on growing the SPT and Dog Main Meal (MM) category leveraging our brands portfolio (and potentially recommend new brands).
• Own competitive intelligence for this SPT & Dog category.
• Propose key opportunity areas to focus on and propose strategy to win in both portfolio and channel tailwinds: identifies the key growth areas/key battles to tackle for the coming 3years.

• Identify the right levers to grow (innovation, distribution, strategic price point) to maximize value creation through net sales growth and premiumization agenda.

• Responsible for the strategic framework of and collaboration for the strategy execution in PNE with the SPT community
• Codify best practices and support the regional and local teams to adopt the learnings.
• You will be responsible for defining:

(i) which partition areas we should win in and our destination portfolio per channel.

(ii) How to win specifically in Specialist Pet Trade (SPT) with our Pet Nutrition brands.

(iii) How to leverage and position our brands portfolio in terms of strategic pricing, consumer innovation/renovation, activation and content needed to maximize share, net sales value and profitability.

Transformational strategic shifts:

• Expand the Specialist Pet Trade channel.
• Step change D-com & DTC through tailored experiences.
• Leverage different business model demand creation across Grocery & SPT.
• Pioneer white space innovation.

Community leadership:

• Work stream leader in close collaboration with the One Demand Leadership Team, the local SPT teams, the finance team, portfolio teams, consumer & market Insights team and business unit directors to define the European portfolio strategy.
• Collaboration with the global category team and the strategy team
• Support local markets to support an effective deployment of the portfolio strategy

What can you expect from Mars?

• Work with over 130,000 diverse and talented Associates, all guided by The Five Principles.
• Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
• Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
• An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.

#LI-MW1