Global Portfolio Manager

Job Summary

The Global Portfolio Manager is responsible for the Elementis portfolio’s across the global Coatings and PC market. Sets up long-term strategy and positioning for the different product categories and steers the product portfolio life cycle, ensuring optimal balance between customer experience, working capital and operational efficiency. The role leads life cycle decisions (MTS/MTO/ETO, rationalization, phase‑out, production transfers) and acts as the central coordination point across Strategic Marketing, Supply Chain, Finance, Sales, Sustainability, and Innovation Delivery.

Job Description

Responsibilities

1- You drive portfolio strategy and positioning clarity

Define portfolio structure and category roles aligned with segment priorities. Apply clear positioning logic (e.g. good/better/best) across the portfolio. Ensure trademark oversight for key portfolio brands and decide to create, maintain of exist. Ensure alignment between portfolio strategy, segment priorities, and value propositions to drive consistent positioning and market impact.

2- You drive lifecycle strategy and portfolio health.

Define and steer lifecycle strategies (e.g. MTS, MTO, limited run, phase-out). Lead structured lifecycle programs to assess portfolio health and performance. Initiate next-generation and optimization actions to strengthen portfolio competitiveness and value creation.

3 - You drive rationalization and phase‑out leadership.

Lead SKU rationalization with clear business cases and value impact. Maintain a rolling rationalization roadmap to ensure continuous portfolio optimization. Balance working capital reduction with customer experience and service levels.

4 - You own sustainability alignment within the portfolio.

Act as the Strategic Marketing lead for sustainability and PRSA-related portfolio actions. Drive mitigation actions for at-risk products and POCOC exposure, ensuring alignment with regulatory requirements and long-term portfolio resilience. Lead sustainability‑related portfolio topics, including PARC activities, sustainability scoring, and improvement actions, working closely with Sustainability teams and Segment Managers.

5 - You enable cross‑functional product decision leadership.

Coordinate Portfolio life cycle priorities across Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Procurement, Finance, Sales, and Innovation Delivery, ensuring transparency and alignment on upcoming changes and risks. Lead cross-functional decision-making, ensuring alignment, accountability, and execution. Ensure decisions are data-driven and actionable, supported by clear portfolio governance standards. Drive availability of accurate lifecycle data in PIM and define requirements for reporting tools.

Decision making

• You have authority to approve all small projects for Coatings and Personal Care.
• You set portfolio strategy globally and decide on product rationalization, taking into account the input of sales and marketing segment leaders.
• You define the relevant KPIs to track progress and reports regularly on them to the Global Head of Strategic Marketing.

What will it take

Job Competencies

• Strategic mindset: Having a strategic mindset allows you to set clear direction and vision, identify market trends and opportunities, ensure product management efforts are strategically positioned to meet current and future customer needs and aligned with the company’s overall strategy.
• Communicates effectively: Effective communication enables you to articulate the strategic goals, provide guidance, ensure everyone is aligned with the company’s objectives, facilitate collaboration within and across the teams, ensure ideas and feedback are shared openly and ultimately enhance the quality of innovation efforts.
• Agility and adaptability: ability to adjust decision and processes and steer resources in a complex environment, with diverse portfolio of product, assets and markets, bringing customer needs at the center of decision making.
• Plan and align: Planning and aligning to execute is essential for managing multiple projects effectively. It enables you to allocate resources, ensure research activities are synchronized with project timelines, execute projects with precision, maximize productivity and achieve desired outcomes.
• Collaboration: Effective collaboration ensures you can harness the collective expertise and insights of various stakeholders including R&D teams, Marketing, Regulatory affairs, Procurement and Supply Chain. You can facilitate the exchange of ideas, align diverse perspectives, promotes synergy and accelerate business growth.

Technical Knowledge and Skills

• Highly skilled in managing a complex, multi-plant and multi-region portfolio: Ability to view the portfolio holistically, understanding interdependencies between products, customers, operations, and working capital. Translates this understanding into clear, fact‑based life‑cycle decisions that support both short‑term execution and long‑term strategy.
• Excellent commercial and operational judgement: Balances customer experience, profitability, sustainability, and operational constraints to make sound portfolio trade‑offs. Applies judgement to complex situations where data, risk, and stakeholder interests intersect.
• Excellent Stakeholder alignment and decision facilitation: Actively brings diverse functions together to create shared understanding, surface trade‑offs, and drive alignment. Enables timely, transparent decision‑making across Strategic Marketing, Supply Chain, Finance, Sales, and Innovation.
• Ability for Data‑driven prioritization: Uses product performance data, demand patterns, financial indicators, and risk signals (e.g. working capital, POCOC exposure) to prioritize actions and focus resources where business impact is greatest.

Position Requirements

Education: Minimum of Bachelor’s degree is required in Business, Engineering, Supply Chain, Chemistry, or equivalent. MBA is desirable.

Experience: 8–10+ years in product management, portfolio management, supply chain or commercial roles in multinational environments.

Skills: Portfolio optimization, life cycle governance, Power BI familiarity, strong project coordination.

Language: Fluent English, Portuguese.

Working arrangements: Porto based, hybrid working.

Travel: 30% - 40% of time, travel is required.