Position: Global PMO Lead – Innovation & Portfolio
Location: Amsterdam, NL (Hybrid)
About the position
This role exists to build, lead and scale a fit-for-purpose global PMO capability across Flora Food Group, enabling disciplined, high-quality execution of innovation and portfolio priorities at scale. As Flora Food Group continues to scale consumer-led innovation globally, the business requires stronger orchestration across regions and functions, ensuring that complex innovation networks are delivered on time, in full, and with clear accountability.
The Global PMO Lead serves as the architect and leader of this capability — defining the operating model, embedding best-in-class ways of working, and ensuring delivery excellence across Europe, North America and Emerging Markets through a hub-and-spoke model. This role reports into the Global VP Product & Portfolio and is critical to reducing execution risk, accelerating speed-to-market, and increasing transparency on resource allocation & constraints, therefore enabling functional leaders to focus on strategic decision-making rather than coordination.
You are accountable for global execution excellence and orchestration, not for project content ownership. Project leadership and strategic direction remain with Marketing / Business leaders; this role ensures the work lands. You set the system and lead the capability — not just manage projects. You simplify and enable at scale — not add bureaucracy.
Operating at the intersection of strategy, execution and organisational capability, you will act as the single point of accountability for execution excellence across the global innovation and portfolio agenda, providing a clear view of timelines, risks and delivery confidence. You will build and lead a hub-and-spoke PMO organisation, with a small but experienced regional PMO team (NA, EU, EM) delivering locally within a common global framework, while ensuring consistency, transparency and rigor in how projects are planned, governed and delivered across the business.
What you’ll do:
Global PMO set-up & leadership
End-to-end global portfolio orchestration
Cross-functional leadership & governance excellence
Capability building & continuous improvement
What Does It Take to Be Successful?
You are an experienced PMO leader with a proven track record of building and scaling enterprise-level PMO capabilities in complex, cross-functional environments. You operate seamlessly at both strategic and operational levels, with the ability to define governance and operating models while driving execution, timelines and risk management.
With 10–15+ years of experience in FMCG / CPG or similarly complex environments, you bring strong expertise in managing global, cross-functional portfolios and driving execution discipline across multiple markets. You are comfortable influencing senior stakeholders, including ExCo / C-suite, and have a solid understanding of stage-gate models and innovation lifecycles.
A strong systems thinker, you design simple, scalable ways of working and bring exceptional prioritisation, orchestration and delivery focus. You lead through others, build capability across regions, and hold teams accountable while staying pragmatic, resilient and solution-oriented. You are action-driven, thrive in ambiguity, and are energised by building teams, systems and structures from the ground up.
What’s Next?
If this position sounds interesting, please hit the apply button now! If you have additional questions, you can send me, Alice Graca, an email to alice.graca@florafg.com
We understand your resume might not be up to date and recommend that you apply with what you have or your LinkedIn Profile. Flora Food Group is dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workplace, we understand that you might not meet all the requirements stated in the description, but we encourage you to apply anyway. You might be the right candidate for this role or other roles.
Flora Food Group is an employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace and equal opportunities for all. We recruit based only on values, qualifications, performance, skills, behaviours, experience, and knowledge. We ensure job advertisements are free from unintentional bias.
No personal characteristics should be a barrier to joining Flora Food Group. We prohibit discrimination and harassment based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or other personal characteristics.
The driving force behind our success are the circa 4,700 Flora Foodies who live our purpose every day and are engaged in our mission, delivering through our values of Performance, Care and Passion. Results Matter. With an ‘Always Day 1 mindset’. Always one step ahead, driven by data, with a finger on the pulse – our customers and consumers are at the heart. We identify the sweet spot; we relish challenge; we own it. We're agile decision-makers, with the courage to pivot, we sometimes fail fast - but learn even faster. Kindness wins. With a long-term focus on building a sustainable future, Flora Foodies show the 'Courage to Care' for each other, our communities, and the next generation. We believe in doing the right thing and 'Come As You Are' is not just a saying; it's an invitation to be authentic and bring your whole, true self to work. Difference brings angles and ideas to the party – we want you to be you. Passion fuels our Next Generation of the Food journey. Full of energy and possibility, Flora Foodies constantly raise the bar, driving the Flora Food Group and one another forwards. We're a team of food lovers and enthusiasts – our sum is truly greater than our parts, and we absolutely love what we do.
