Head of Portfolio & Brand Strategy

Accountabilities

- Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing marketing team, fostering strategic thinking, accountability, creativity, collaboration, and consumer-focused decision-making.

- Own the overall portfolio strategy across brands and product categories, defining each brand's role, purpose, growth mandate, and strategic contribution.

- Identify opportunities for portfolio expansion, rationalization, premiumization, innovation, and optimization based on consumer, category, competitive, and financial insights.

- Develop and maintain a scalable brand architecture, including positioning, target audiences, value propositions, brand equity frameworks, and long-term growth plans.

- Lead annual brand planning and translate broader business objectives into actionable portfolio and marketing strategies.

- Partner with Sales, Commercial, Innovation, and Trade Marketing teams to align priorities, innovation pipelines, customer strategies, and in-market execution.

- Own marketing resource allocation and investment decisions across brands, channels, and strategic initiatives, prioritizing opportunities that maximize return and sustainable growth.

- Manage annual marketing budgets and establish processes to measure investment effectiveness, ROI, and resource deployment.

- Establish portfolio, brand, campaign, and investment performance frameworks and lead regular business reviews with senior leadership.

- Use market share, consumer, financial, retail, and other performance data to guide strategic decisions and continuously improve planning and governance processes.

- Provide strategic direction to Creative and Digital teams, ensuring integrated and consistent execution across content, social, digital, brand, and retail channels.

- Champion modern marketing capabilities, digital engagement, creative excellence, and consistent brand expression across consumer touchpoints.

- Act as a strategic marketing partner to Innovation, Sales, and Trade Marketing, ensuring strong alignment between brand strategy, product development, commercial priorities, and customer activation.

Requirements

- Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Commerce, or a related field.

- 10+ years of progressive experience in brand, portfolio, or marketing leadership.

- Demonstrated experience managing multiple brands in consumer packaged goods, tobacco, beverage alcohol, consumer wellness, retail, cannabis, or another comparable consumer environment.

- Proven expertise in portfolio management, brand architecture, strategic planning, and commercial growth strategy.

- Strong people leadership experience, with a track record of building, developing, and motivating high-performing teams.

- Strong analytical, financial, and commercial acumen, with the ability to translate data and insights into strategic decisions.

- Exceptional executive communication, influencing, stakeholder management, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

- Strong consumer insight, innovation, omnichannel marketing, and data-driven decision-making capabilities.

- Experience managing significant marketing budgets and allocating investments across competing priorities.

- Experience operating in a highly regulated industry is an asset.

- An MBA or equivalent advanced degree is preferred.

- Demonstrated executive presence, organizational effectiveness, strategic thinking, and the ability to influence across functions.

Benefits

- Full-time, remote-first position based in Ontario, Canada.

- Extended health and dental coverage.

- Paid vacation.

- Participation in an employer-supported retirement savings program.

- Opportunity to lead a high-impact portfolio and influence long-term brand and business growth.

- Collaborative, inclusive, and diverse working environment.

- Significant exposure to senior leadership and cross-functional commercial teams.

- Opportunity to shape innovative consumer brands and modern marketing capabilities.

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