Senior Product Manager (Marketing) - Perm or Interim

Position Title: Senior Product Manager (Marketing) - Perm or Interim

Position Type: Regular - Full-Time

Position Location: Scarborough

Requisition ID: 37643

About McCain. At McCain, we’re feeding the world: from French fries to Smiles, we contribute to the important role food plays in people's lives. That’s why we’re dedicated to ensuring our core values—Family, Authentic, Trusted, and Quality—shine through every day. As a privately owned family company with over 60 years of experience, a presence in more than 160 countries, and a global team of 22,000 people, our values and culture are at the heart of everything we do. We believe that we can work together, along with our business and community partners, to bring sustainable growth and positive change today, tomorrow, and for generations to come. Join us and see how you can MAKE IT at McCain!

Why join the McCain family. Your Life - we’re here to help you fulfil your potential, flourish, and thrive in work and life. Your Success – This is a place where ambition meets opportunity - whether you’re building expertise or stepping into leadership, your growth matters to us. Your Impact – we want you to make a meaningful, lasting impact for you, for your colleagues, and for the business.

About The Role. In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and interested in helping each other create good work experiences. We think about the customer and make doing business with McCain easy. Today, we remain the category leader - but we’re not standing still. With ambitious growth plans, we’re expanding beyond the potato into new occasions, categories and channels across Retail, Foodservice and QSR. We’re now looking for a Senior Product Manager – a strategic marketing leader ready to help us write the next chapter. We are open to considering permanent or fixed-term contracts for up to 12 months. This is a high-profile role with scope, visibility and real career potential. In some companies, it might be packaged as a Marketing Controller – here, it’s a springboard into a Marketing Director role. In this role, you’ll take ownership of a dynamic product portfolio, driving growth through sharp consumer insight, bold strategy and flawless execution. You’ll bring curiosity, creativity and commercial acumen - combining a deep understanding of people with the discipline of data. From shaping brand strategy and leading cross-functional teams, to working with world-class creative agencies and delivering innovation to market, you’ll play a central role in strengthening our brands and unlocking new opportunities. This is a role for a marketer who thinks big and thrives on making things happen. You’ll be as comfortable leading strategic conversations with senior stakeholders as you are digging into consumer trends, analysing data or inspiring agencies to create award-winning campaigns. Above all, you’ll bring energy, imagination and a genuine passion for connecting brands with people.

What You’ll Do

• Shape and deliver breakthrough brand strategies rooted in consumer insight.
• Manage and grow your portfolio with a sharp eye on profitability and performance.
• Drive pricing, promotion and portfolio strategies that create lasting commercial impact.
• Partner with creative, media and PR agencies to deliver compelling, insight-led communications.
• Lead cross-functional teams in developing and launching innovations that excite consumers and customers alike.

Leadership Principles. Our principles, each with related practices, guide our actions across the organisation. Together, they address how McCain interacts with our customers and employees, and how we work as individuals and collectively to find success. While each role adheres to the Leadership Principles, individual roles may focus more on a specific principle or principles. We are customer obsessed. Customers are our starting point. By understanding their needs and leveraging data and consumer insights, we drive mutual success. We think big and plan ahead. Through ambition, curiosity, and smart risks, we can accomplish goals, refine processes, and innovate to scale success. We bring out the best in our people. We create safe spaces for our people so that trust and empowerment come naturally. Inclusion is about listening first, showing humility, and working together. We act like owners. Together, we clear obstacles and do the work that makes us all successful and proud to be part of McCain.

Accountabilities.

Experience & Knowledge

• Proven experience within an FMCG marketing team, having held a Product or Brand Manager role – Essential
• Previous people management experience – Desirable
• Degree level education or equivalent – Essential
• Strong grasp of consumer data sources (EPOS, Shopper Panel) – Essential
• Understanding of consumer research techniques – Essential

Skills

• Proficient PC skills, particularly Excel – Essential
• Excellent communication and presentation skills – Essential
• Creative, curious and commercially minded – Essential
• Analytical, with strong numerical capability – Essential
• Confident project management skills – Essential

Location. Being in the office every single day is a thing of the past. Here at McCain, we champion hybrid working. This means we don’t have a set expectation of exactly when you need to be in the office - however we do encourage our full-time, office-based people to connect in person weekly, as that’s the best way for us to build and maintain our connections. Our head office (Customer Experience Centre) is on the outskirts of Scarborough - 1.5 hours away from Leeds City Centre, and about an hour from York. We have lots of colleagues who travel to and from our Experience Centre (even if it is just for a good coffee!) and because hybrid really does mean hybrid at McCain, they get the opportunity to collaborate with their colleagues when they’re in the office, and balance that with working from home to ensure they get a good life-work balance.

The Benefits Of Working For McCain. Although we do encourage you to taste the goods you’ll be pleased to know we don’t pay you in ‘chips’. For working hard, you’ll also get a great salary and some pretty good benefits including:

• A generous Car Allowance
• An achievable yearly bonus based on personal performance.
• An excellent pension where we will pay double what you do, up to a maximum of 12% of your pay
• Flexible holidays – where you can buy & sell up to 5 days holiday per year
• Optional health cash plan
• Cycle to work scheme
• ‘Chips In’ Volunteering Day Off - to make a positive impact to the competitiveness, resilience, and long-term development of McCain communities across the globe

And of course, being part of a Global business there are great opportunities to shine/thrive should you wish to relocate in the future. We have an ambitious 5-year growth plan that presents development & progression opportunities for those who seek it out.

The McCain Experience. We are McCain: this statement is about our power collectively and our importance individually—your impact is a significant part of the business. Our winning culture focuses on authenticity and trust so we can always bring out the best in our people. Here, you have the opportunity to learn, grow, and thrive while being yourself. Join our team to see why we’re better together.

McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law. McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions. Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with McCain’s Global Privacy Policy and Global Employee Privacy Policy , as applicable. You can understand how your personal information is being handled here.

Job Family: Marketing

Division: GB Marketing

Department: Brand Communications

Location(s): GB - United Kingdom : England : Scarborough

Company: McCain Foods (G.B.) Ltd