Job: Portfolio Controller

Location: Flexible

Why Greencore?

Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026, we’re one of the UK’s leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make every day taste better.

As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we’re proud to employ over 28,000 talented colleagues across 36 manufacturing sites and 21 distribution depots in the UK and the US. Together, we bring delicious food to life. Our products cover every meal occasion from breakfast through to dinner and dessert, with lunch and snacking in between. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve combined revenues of approximately £4bn.

Our extensive direct to store (DTS) network, with 17 depots across the UK, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring consumers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.

We have a number of these newly created Portfolio Controller vacancies in our Commercial function.  The location of the roles will be decided on a case by case basis.

Colleagues whose roles are at risk of redundancy and who meet essential role criteria will be given priority consideration for this role. 

Colleagues in central/support functions whose roles are at risk of redundancy and who accept a new role can continue working from their current location, in accordance with our location guidance, where feasible. The exception to this would be if a colleague accepts a role that requires in-person attendance at a specific location e.g. a Finance colleague who accepts an operationally focused Finance role. All other successful applicants will be expected to attend work at locations where roles are based. Location expectations and any associated working arrangements will be discussed and confirmed as part of the interview and offer process

Role Purpose

To drive profitable growth across the portfolio by setting strategy, owning IBP/ITP decisions and Stage & Gate outcomes, aligning excellence programmes with customer NPD/EPD roadmaps, and ensuring margin accretion, capacity fit, and risk-managed execution through effective cross functional leadership

Key Accountabilities

• Actively manage & collaborate with the Head of Portfolio to set the over-arching strategy for the Sector / Multiple Product Portfolio and be the champion of that portfolio strategy
• Working alongside at least one Customer team(s) to own all portfolio activity & relevant prioritisation. Seek to join the functional portfolio stakeholders together to deliver, whilst coaching & supporting the other Portfolio Managers & other team members
• Provides leadership, motivation and inspiration to Portfolio Management colleagues. Sets direction to ensure that effective workload prioritisation is evident across the team, whilst ensuring people are kept safe, engaged & focused. As part of the overall portfolio team, work effectively to understand and align with the overall team accountabilities in the areas of subject matter expertise and cost controls & efficiency
• Partners with Insights and Category teams to champion the integration of relevant market, customer & consumer insights into Portfolio prioritisation, Investment decisions and Innovation pipelines.
• Be a role model for the Portfolio teams in areas of process management and communication. Maintain rigorous adherence to RACI, NPD (stage & gate) processes and procedures (specifically ownership of the PMD process) to ensure that products fulfil all relevant financial key performance indicators and launch “on time and in full”. Champion and support our Business SIPOC (Suppliers, Input, Process, Outputs, Customers) and our Business Process (ITP, IBP, MBR, Steering Group)
• Support the delivery of portfolio level culinary, sustainability & HSD strategies through active participation in relevant forums and measurement of aligned portfolio activity
• Accountable for acting as the key link between manufacturing, Supply Chain, Technical (Process) and Commercial teams. Ensure strong stakeholder engagement across these cross functional teams to provide Portfolio level expertise to support successful product development & launch. Maintains a developed understanding of, and actively leverages, the manufacturing capacity & capability inherent within each responsible portfolio
• Support the Head of Portfolio in ensuring the product development teams have the right capacity and capability for the workload by supporting the setting and prioritization of business planning that is aligned to resource levels and capability. Monitor and assess the accuracy of business documentation and process adherence to effectively manage network resource and priorities
• Understand and commit the necessary focus required to deliver our group sustainability (HSD) commitments including data quality input & outputs into the Business Cycle for the Sector / Portfolios
• Actively manage organizational risk related to Cyber Security, Data & Customer IP by committing the necessary focus, resource and investing in the skills and experience required to ensure compliance to relevant policies and legislation, along with taking ownership for personal and commercial data processed throughout the group

What We're Looking For

• Commercially astute, financially aware and able to communicate attributes clearly
• Highly numerate, with experience working in a data driven environment Career Band Role Profile ID Activity Time Frames
• Weekly ITP cycle. People Leader / Senior Professional A RP218
• Monthly Business Process Review IBP * Annual “in year” planning
• Two-year horizon portfolio business strategy & product plan (“this year next year”)
• Reactive response to individual customer & portfolio agendas/issues
• Support of strategic development team requirements > 2yrs as required
• A passionate and creative commercial professional with a focus on “attention to detail
• Experience of building product portfolios either as a customer or as a supplier
• Experience and knowledge of manufacturing capability, food development processes and commercial priorities
• Experience of category management principles and priorities
• Experience in a commercial role ideally in an FMCG business
• Demonstrated an ability to structure work and focus a team to deliver against an agreed vision
• Experience of, and evidence of, high-level influencing skills and proven stakeholder management capability
• The ability to manage multiple categories and projects simultaneously across the Business Portfolio(s)
• Is resilient with experience and ability to make difficult prioritisation decisions
• Extensive Process discipline

We’re proud to be recognised in the Gender Equity Measure Top 100 for our commitment to gender equality.

What you’ll get in return

*       Competitive salary and job-related benefits

*       Holidays

*       Competitive matched pension contributions

*       Life insurance up to 4x salary

*       Company share save scheme

*       Greencore Qualifications

*       Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform

*       Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform

*       Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies