Location: Wageningen, Netherlands
Hybrid
About the position
The R&D Portfolio Manager leads the feasibility-based portfolio management process for Flora Professional Europe, covering both the Professional and Industrial channels. The role actively drives cross-functional alignment, represents R&D in regional portfolio governance forums, and ensures that technical feasibility, resource capacity, and evidence-based assessments guide prioritization and sequencing decisions. The Manager partners closely with Product Design teams to ensure technical solutions meet market expectations and influences stakeholders to make realistic, insight-driven portfolio decisions. A core accountability of the role is to translate innovation proposals into clear, decision-ready Product & Pack Briefs that underpin portfolio prioritization, sequencing, and investment decisions.
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So what does it take to be successful in this role?
You are an experienced R&D portfolio and innovation leader with 8–12 years of experience in portfolio management, innovation governance, technical project leadership, and hands-on product development. You have successfully led cross-functional teams and owned end-to-end innovation projects within a stage-gate (or equivalent) R&D governance model. You combine strong technical expertise with strategic thinking, enabling you to prioritise portfolios based on feasibility, capacity, risk, and business needs while ensuring high-quality governance and decision-making. You are skilled at translating complex technical insights into clear recommendations, influencing stakeholders across R&D and commercial functions, and driving disciplined portfolio execution. With a Master's degree in Food or Consumer Science, Engineering, Business, Innovation, or a related field, you bring deep knowledge of feasibility-based portfolio management, technical risk assessment, and innovation delivery, while experience with portfolio or project management certifications (PfMP, PMP, or PRINCE2 Practitioner) is considered an advantage
What’s Next?
If this position sounds interesting, please hit the apply button now! The deadline for applying is 6 August.
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.
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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.
