Do you want to play a key role in shaping the future of plant-based food? Are you energized by building winning portfolios, leading category growth, and turning consumer insight into products people love? At Valio we’re entering an exciting new chapter – scaling the Valio Gold&Green® innovation, strengthening our plant-based footprint, and unlocking the next wave of growth.
WE ARE LOOKING FOR GROWTH-DRIVEN CATEGORY & PORTFOLIO MANAGER TO JOIN OUR VALIO GOLD&GREEN® TEAM, EXPANSION & RENEWAL BUSINESS AREA
We’re looking for a growth-driven Category & Portfolio Manager with a strong business mindset and a start-up attitude. In this role, you will lead the business, build a winning portfolio, and turn strategic ambition into measurable impact. If you want to combine hands-on ownership with strategic leadership, this is the role for you.
Would you be the perfect fit? We have a permanent Category & Portfolio Manager position, located in Helsinki.
What You’ll Do: In this role you will lead our category and portfolio with curiosity, clarity, and commercial edge. You will:
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Lead the Plant-based proteins & Foods category and business performance across the markets by creating transparency and actionable insights for growth and profitability.
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Lead and develop the product portfolio – Create & execute category plan: define category direction, shape the innovation pipeline, manage delists, and ensure our range stays relevant, competitive and future-fit.
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Build a data-driven category view and translate insights into sharp recommendations for positioning, pricing, mix, and channel strategy.
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Lead and coordinate cross-functional workstreams in a matrix organization – Work closely with marketing, sales, R&D, and production keeping things moving with pace, structure, and clarity.
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Champion the Valio Gold&Green® brand and ensure portfolio decisions strengthen our long-term equity and differentiation.
This position offers you an opportunity to be in the center of Valio strategy execution and create something unique in Finnish food industry. An essential part of our business is to search and evaluate business opportunities with different kind of partners and look for opportunities to expand to some completely new areas.
Who You Are: You blend strategic insight with entrepreneurial spirit – and you combine strategic sharpness with hands-on drive. You are:
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Growth-minded and commercially driven, with a strong ambition to build a winning category
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Skilled in portfolio development, with a proven ability to turn insight into competitive product ranges
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Comfortably operating in a matrix organization – influencing, aligning and driving clarity across function
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Analytical and structured, confident with P&L, pricing, mix and scenario modeling
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Curious, innovative and consumercentric – you spot opportunities early and turn them into concrete actions
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A strong collaborator and communicator, fluent in Finnish and English
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Equipped with a relevant academic degree (business, food science, or similar)
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5+ Experience in FMCG, category management, portfolio leadership is considered a strong advantage
What We Offer
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A key role in shaping the future of a pioneering plant-based brand
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The opportunity to lead business, portfolio and innovation pipeline with visible impact on shelf and performance
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A passionate, ambitious and supportive team that works with purpose and pace
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A chance to grow, learn, and make your mark with the backing of Valio’s capabilities and expertise
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A role at the heart of Valio’s strategy
Plants and plantbased foods are the future! At Valio, we are building this future under our PlantBased Proteins & Foods function, where we combine strong R&D, consumer insight, and ambitious growth targets. We strengthened our position in the plantbased market when we acquired the Gold&Green® brand, intellectual property and R&D operations in 2022. This marked an important step in expanding our capabilities and accelerating innovation in plantbased proteins.
Since then, we have renewed the brand, broadened our competencies, and continued to invest in nextgeneration plantbased foods.
In 2025, our acquisition of Verso Food further expanded our footprint and gave us our own production capacity – a major milestone toward a more selfsufficient and competitive plantbased portfolio. Today, we are shaping the future of plantbased eating by developing products that are delicious and nutritious. Gold&Green
For more detailed information, please contact: Susanna Kallio, Vice President Plant-Based Proteins & New Ventures, tel. +358 40 546 2885 / 27.3 15-17, 2.4 11-13. 8.4. 10-12.
Ready to change how the world eats in the future – Join us, it’s going to be delicious? Please send your application by 12.4.2026 via application link or www.valio.fi/rekry.
Application period starts: 2026-03-24 16:00Application period ends: 2026-04-12 23:59
