Head of Portfolio Growth
Your manager: VP Business Acceleration and Transformation
Team: Marketing
Location: Chiswick, London
We operate a hybrid working approach, allowing you to manage your time between home and office.
Role Purpose
The Head of Portfolio Growth will be responsible for operationalizing Crystal’s global strategy at market level by building strong ongoing collaboration with regional and local market teams, ensuring alignment between global priorities and local market plans while acting as a strategic partner to accelerate growth opportunities.
Your unique contribution
Portfolio and Brand Strategy Alignment
- Drive alignment between global brand strategy and local market execution, ensuring consistency across brand planning, portfolio priorities, launch plans, and key commercial initiatives in your markets.
- Connect global and local planning cycles by coordinating Integrated Business Planning (IBP) processes, ensuring clarity, rhythm, and consistency in execution.
- Oversee the timely and effective delivery of brand assets and innovations (NPD), proactively managing risks and mitigation plans while ensuring brand plans are fully aligned with S&OP processes to connect commercial ambition with supply and demand realities.
Cross-Functional Business Partnership
- Act as a strategic partner to regional and local market teams, working across marketing, commercial, finance, strategy, and supply chain to unlock growth opportunities and drive execution excellence.
- Support problem‑solving and arbitration on key growth and business topics, enabling clear and effective two‑way communication between global and local stakeholders.
- Play a leadership role in orchestrating key planning forums and business reviews, ensuring strong alignment, clarity of priorities, and timely decision‑making.
Market and Portfolio Leadership
- Serve as the voice of the market within Crystal, bringing forward commercial insights, identifying risks and opportunities, and ensuring local priorities are reflected in global portfolio decisions.
- Actively challenge and refine A&P investment strategies and portfolio choices, addressing misalignment and driving resolution with senior stakeholders.
- Support the development of robust innovation business cases by consolidating market inputs and partnering closely with finance to strengthen decision‑making and investment impact.
Who you’ll be working with
Internally, you’ll work closely with Marketing, Commercial, Finance, Strategy, Supply Chain, and Leadership teams across both the Crystal Business Unit and your designated Management Entity/markets.
Your blend of talent
- Bring strong commercial and strategic experience within consumer goods, FMCG, wines & spirits, or similar brand‑led industries.
- Have a track record of translating global strategy into local execution and driving growth across multiple markets.
- Operate effectively within complex, international matrix organisations, demonstrating strong collaboration and interpersonal agility.
- Excel in stakeholder management and influencing, building alignment across diverse teams, functions, and markets.
- Communicate clearly and with impact, particularly with senior stakeholders.
- Combine analytical strength with a results‑driven mindset, turning insights into actionable recommendations.
- Bring strong project and change management capabilities, delivering cross‑functional initiatives with discipline and prioritisation.
- Navigate ambiguity confidently, using sound judgement to drive decisions and outcomes.
- Demonstrate cultural awareness and strong social and emotional intelligence.
Our mix of benefits
For your health, we offer private medical insurance, income protection and a comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme.
Our lifestyle benefits include 28 days’ annual holiday, your employee pension, share incentive plan, season ticket loans, payroll giving and more.
Diversity and inclusion
We are committed to diversity and inclusion throughout our business and supply chain. In our teams, we proactively foster a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture – an environment where we can truly be ourselves.
EEO Statement
We will assess your application for this role based on your skills, experiences and achievements, not your gender, age, ethnic or educational background or any other such factors. Please feel free to leave these off your CV and application form if you so wish. Similarly, if you would like to discuss opportunities for flexible working or require accommodations or support to complete our application process, please let us know.
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