Portfolio Strategy & Pipeline Lead

Short Intro and About the Job

At Danone, we're looking for a Portfolio Strategy & Pipeline Lead to connect business priorities with our IT & Data portfolio across the Americas region. In this role, you will ensure strategic initiatives are aligned, prioritized, and ready to move from idea to execution, creating visibility and value across the organization.

 

What You'll Do

• Lead the alignment between annual business priorities (AOP) and the IT & Data portfolio.

• Manage the portfolio pipeline from ideation through approval readiness, ensuring clear prioritization and visibility.

• Partner with Business Partners, Product Teams, Finance, and key stakeholders to shape and refine initiatives before formal governance reviews. 

• Support investment planning and prioritization decisions by balancing business value, funding availability, and execution feasibility. 

• Guide teams in preparing high-quality business cases and improving initiative readiness. 

• Contribute to cross-functional strategic programs, driving alignment, transparency, and portfolio visibility across the region.

About You

To be successful in this role, you bring a strong understanding of portfolio management, strategic planning, and investment prioritization, with the ability to connect business needs to technology initiatives. You are comfortable navigating ambiguity, influencing diverse stakeholders, and turning complex information into clear recommendations and decisions. You thrive in collaborative environments and enjoy working at the intersection of business, product, finance, and technology. Most importantly, you are energized by continuous improvement, new challenges, and opportunities to drive meaningful impact across a dynamic regional organization.

• Strong portfolio, demand, or strategic planning capabilities, with the ability to assess priorities, value, funding considerations, and execution feasibility.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the confidence to engage Business Partners, Product Teams, Finance, and senior leaders across multiple markets. 
• Analytical and structured problem solver who can translate complexity into actionable insights, clear priorities, and informed decisions.
• Strong business and financial acumen, including an understanding of business cases, investment planning, governance processes, and portfolio decision-making. 
• Comfortable working in evolving environments, balancing multiple priorities, and adapting quickly as business needs and strategic directions change.
• Demonstrates Growth Agility: embraces challenges as learning opportunities, continuously develops new skills, seeks feedback, and remains resilient while driving change and improvement across teams and processes.

About Us, We offer and What's next

At Danone Mexico, we work with a deep conviction: the health of people and the health of the planet are interconnected. Guided by our global vision, One Planet. One Health., we strive to build a healthier future through foods and beverages that are part of the everyday lives of millions of families around the world.​

In Mexico, with more than 15,000 employees, 35 plants, and over 100 distribution centers across the country, we are a diverse and highly committed community driving iconic brands such as Danone, Activia, Oikos, Danonino, Bonafont, and Silk. Every person who joins us contributes a key part to our ongoing evolution and innovation.​

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At Danone, you will find an environment where you can grow with purpose and be your authentic self. We value what each individual brings, and it is that unique combination of experiences, talents, and perspectives that strengthens our culture and empowers us to achieve extraordinary results. Here, you will have the freedom to propose, create, and bring ideas to life that generate real impact.​

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We support your development through continuous feedback, clear objectives, agile methodologies, and learning tools designed to accelerate your professional growth. We want you to move forward with confidence and find a path that truly inspires you. Your well-being is also essential to us. That’s why we offer flexible benefits, comprehensive physical, emotional, and financial well-being programs, support platforms, exclusive discounts, and benefits above those required by law that accompany every stage of your life.​

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We are proudly a certified B Corp company, reflecting our commitment to responsible practices, conscious decision-making, and a positive impact on people, communities, and the planet.​

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If you’re looking for a place where you can contribute, grow, and be part of a community that works with purpose, we invite you to explore our job openings and discover for yourself everything you can build at Danone. Your next big professional step could start here.#LI-MX​