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Neogen is seeking a Senior Portfolio Manager to play a pivotal role within its Global Portfolio team, supporting the continued growth and performance of the Food Safety business. This senior-level role will lead and integrate multiple product portfolios, shaping strategic priorities, strengthening governance, and driving disciplined execution across global markets. Working closely with senior leaders and cross-functional partners, you will help optimise portfolio performance, guide lifecycle decisions, and deliver market-leading outcomes.

• Lead cross-portfolio strategy, ensuring clear investment priorities, lifecycle balance, and alignment with Food Safety growth objectives.
• Identify synergies, overlaps, and gaps across portfolios, developing robust business cases and recommendations for acceleration, rationalisation or reinvestment.
• Translate enterprise strategy into portfolio roadmaps, resource requirements, revenue assumptions, budget recommendations and prioritised investment plans.
• Oversee aggregate portfolio performance, including P&L outcomes, pricing discipline, margin improvement, launch performance and risk management.
• Coach and support Portfolio Managers, strengthening strategic thinking, accountability, lifecycle management and execution standards.
• Act as a key cross-functional partner for regional teams, Sales, R&D, Operations, Quality, Finance and Scientific Affairs to align innovation pipelines with market needs and business value.

• Significant experience in portfolio management, product management, commercial strategy or a related senior business role, ideally within food safety, life sciences, diagnostics, manufacturing or a technical B2B environment.
• Strong commercial acumen, including experience with P&L ownership, revenue forecasting, pricing strategy, margin improvement and portfolio performance metrics.
• Demonstrated ability to lead portfolio planning, governance processes, business case development and lifecycle management across multiple product lines.
• Proven experience influencing senior stakeholders and leading cross-functional teams in a global or matrixed organisation.
• Strong analytical, strategic and communication skills, with the ability to translate complex market, financial and operational information into clear recommendations.
• Experience coaching or leading product or portfolio management professionals, with a focus on performance, consistency and continuous improvement.

• A senior, high-impact role contributing to strategic portfolio decisions across a global Food Safety business.
• The opportunity to collaborate with international teams across commercial, technical and operational functions.
• A professional environment focused on disciplined execution, market insight, innovation and continuous improvement.
• A standard benefits package, in line with company policy and local employment arrangements.
• An inclusive recruitment process where applications are welcomed from candidates with diverse backgrounds, experiences and perspectives.

If you are an experienced portfolio leader with the strategic insight, commercial discipline and stakeholder leadership skills to shape global product performance, we'd love to hear from you. Join our team and help drive the next phase of growth in Food Safety.

Applicants must have the right to work in the United Kingdom or be able to obtain it in accordance with applicable immigration requirements. Personal data provided during the recruitment process will be handled in line with applicable UK data protection laws and company privacy policies. 

From inside the farm gate to our dinner plates, Neogen protects the world’s food supply. Through a variety of animal healthcare products, to food safety solutions for dangerous bacteria, allergens, toxins, drug residues and much more, Neogen is there — and you can be too.