Position: PMO Manager – Innovation & Portfolio (Europe)
Location: Amsterdam, NL (Hybrid)
About the position
This role exists to help build and embed a fit-for-purpose PMO capability for the European (EU) business, enabling disciplined, high-quality execution of innovation and portfolio priorities. As Flora Food Group continues to scale consumer-led innovation, the EU business requires stronger cross-functional orchestration across Marketing, R&D, Supply Chain, Finance and Operations.
Reporting to the Global PMO Lead (dotted line - Global Head of P&P / Europe Head of Marketing), the PMO Manager acts as a foundational builder of this capability – establishing robust ways of working, driving executional discipline, and ensuring projects land on time, in full, and with clear accountability.
This role is critical to reducing execution risk, accelerating speed-to-market, and increasing transparency on resource allocation – enabling functional leaders to focus on decision-making rather than coordination.
Operating at the intersection of strategy and execution, you will establish a European PMO operating model aligned to global P&P standards, tailored to local business needs. You will drive consistency, transparency and rigor to how innovation and portfolio initiatives are planned, governed and delivered.
You will act as the executional backbone for priority initiatives - ensuring cross-functional teams deliver against clear timelines, milestones and decision gates - while serving as the single source of truth for execution status, risks and delivery confidence across the EU portfolio agenda.
You are accountable for execution and orchestration - not project content ownership. Strategic directions remain with Marketing and Business leads; this role ensures the work lands. You simplify and enable - never add unnecessary complexity.
What you’ll do:
PMO set-up & governance
End-to-end project & activity management
Cross-functional leadership & execution excellence
Capability building
What Does It Take to Be Successful?
You combine strong project management fundamentals with the ability to operate confidently in complex, cross-functional FMCG environments, and are comfortable building structure where it does not yet exist, bringing clarity and momentum to ambiguous situations. With 5–10+ years of experience in project, program or PMO roles, you bring hands-on expertise in managing end-to-end innovation, transformation or portfolio initiatives, as well as experience owning PMO data quality, reporting cadence and execution dashboards and setting up or scaling PMO structures. You have a strong understanding of stage-gate models, innovation lifecycles and launch readiness, and are confident influencing senior stakeholders without direct authority.
A strong systems thinker, you design simple, scalable ways of working and demonstrate excellent planning, prioritisation and execution discipline. You are a confident facilitator and communicator across senior and cross-functional stakeholders, with a high accountability mindset and a pragmatic, solution-oriented and resilient approach under pressure. You are action-driven, comfortable moving between helicopter view and operational detail, and energised by building capability and enabling others to succeed, while valuing transparency, follow-through and continuous improvement.
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.
