# Portfolio Lead (Gum & Mints) - Mars Snacking

Job Description: As the Portfolio Lead of the Gum & Mints brands, you’ll operate as the General Manager of our biggest, most strategically important and growing business - shaping the long-term strategy, identifying new sources of consumer demand, building breakthrough commercial plans and making investment choices for the future. This role serves as a key leadership pipeline position, developing the successful candidate for future succession to the Canadian Leadership Team. The position is responsible for leading brand strategy, portfolio growth, innovation, commercial execution, and marketing capability development. The role owns the delivery of revenue, market share, profit, and brand equity objectives while leading cross-functional teams, agency partners and direct reports. What are we looking for? 10+ years of progressive marketing leadership experience within CPG, food, or adjacent consumer industries, with increasing responsibility for brand, category or business leadership. Proven success leading category strategy, innovation and portfolio growth. Demonstrated experience managing a P&L and making commercial investment decisions. Experience leading and developing high-perfor

- **Id**: 3876743
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/mars-portfolio-lead-gum-mints-mars-snacking>
- **Role**: Management
- **Role family**: Management
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Bolton, Canada
- **Countries**: CA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T16:36:24Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T01:54:49Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 3
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3337
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Pet Food, Supplies & Care, Confectionery

## Company

- **Id**: 94439
- **Name**: Mars
- **Domain**: mars.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/mars>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 81
- **Open postings**: 64
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.969
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 17
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 3

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Canada** — Iso: CA; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T16:36:24Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 17
- **Reasons**: conf:3, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

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