Jobs at Mars

Oversee inbound raw material and ingredient supply to support manufacturing operations. Manage supplier performance, sourcing, tenders, qualifications, supply security, value creation, and continuous improvement initiatives. Serve as the primary contact for suppliers, manufacturing sites, and assigned categories. Lead supplier reviews and cross-functional meetings, resolve risks, analyze performance data, and improve supply chain processes while balancing cost, service, quality, and continuity.

Leads Mars Wrigley’s Next Generation Supplier and Human Rights Due Diligence program. Responsibilities include embedding human rights requirements into commercial and supplier processes, setting targets, monitoring supplier compliance, managing digital data and KPI dashboards, reporting progress, advising stakeholders, and overseeing governance and escalations across global supply chains.

Manage the external partnership portfolio from opportunity discovery through evaluation, onboarding, governance, implementation, and scaling. Develop partnership roadmaps, business cases, investment analyses, dashboards, KPI frameworks, playbooks, and executive communications. Conduct market research, competitive intelligence, due diligence, and performance reporting while coordinating stakeholders across R&D, Commercial, Finance, Legal, Procurement, Strategy, and external organizations.

Leads pricing and promotion strategy for Mars Food North America, including annual plans, pack-price architecture, trade promotion ROI, price changes, and revenue optimization. Partners with Sales, Marketing, Finance, Customer Marketing, R&D, and S&OP teams to improve net price realization, mix, gross margin, and profitable growth. Develops analytics, reporting, scenario-planning tools, and pricing playbooks while coordinating execution and governance through the Pricing Council.

Designs, develops, administers, and facilitates manufacturing training programs. Responsibilities include creating performance-based training, coaching associates, supporting onboarding, evaluating training effectiveness, coordinating site training plans, monitoring internal trainers, maintaining POKA, and assisting with training-related audits and standards assessments.

Owns high-complexity chocolate portfolio initiatives from charter through post-launch review. Leads cross-functional teams, manages timelines, resources, risks, issues, stage-gate governance, and project portfolio management. Partners with portfolio leaders to prioritize growth pipelines, optimize resources, monitor go-to-market item setup, and drive continuous improvements. Requires strong stakeholder management, influencing, communication, strategic planning, and ambiguity-management skills.

Analyze sales, supply, category, and business data to generate actionable insights. Build and maintain Power BI dashboards, support demand planning and forecasting processes, identify trends and risks, translate complex analyses into clear narratives, and automate data collection, validation, and integration workflows. The role also supports ad hoc analysis and strategic decision-making across the organization.

Leads quality programs across food manufacturing sites, implementing MSE quality pillars, analyzing waste, reducing losses, improving food safety and compliance, and driving continuous improvement. Develops capability-building plans, coaches site leaders and quality teams, manages deployment projects, establishes performance metrics, and leads cross-site standardization and change adoption.

Serves as the strategic Data and Technology partner for Category Management and Customer Marketing. Develops technology and data roadmaps, enables assortment and shelf optimization, supports shopper marketing campaigns, manages demand intake and business cases, and coordinates product and engineering delivery. Champions self-service reporting, AI and predictive analytics, data quality, stakeholder alignment, change management, training, and technology adoption across commercial teams.

Leads global technical accounting and financial reporting for Mars Snacking, ensuring accurate, compliant statements under US GAAP and SOX. Responsibilities include developing accounting policies, reviewing contracts and vendor agreements, supporting audits, integrating acquired companies, partnering with regional controllers and CFOs, and building scalable technical accounting processes and capabilities.

Supports Commercial leaders by aligning business, category, and regional strategies with performance targets. Manages enterprise project portfolios, prioritization, governance, performance reviews, risk escalation, and continuous improvement initiatives. Serves as capability owner for Commercial performance forums and helps drive transformational and business-as-usual execution across categories and regions.

Leads change management for a large-scale Commercial integration across approximately 40 workstreams. Responsibilities include assessing impacts, identifying stakeholders and resistance, developing readiness and adoption plans, coordinating communications, supporting leadership engagement, and gathering associate feedback. The role helps implement a matrixed operating model across organizations and cultures while managing risks, priorities, and stakeholder alignment.

Leads commercial data stewardship and digital solutions teams, developing digital strategy, AI-enabled products, governance frameworks, data quality standards, and data literacy programs. Oversees commercial data domains, master and transactional data, stewardship practices, compliance metrics, and cross-functional collaboration with sourcing, supplier quality, sustainability, and analytics teams.

Leads salty snack innovation for Pringles and Combos from ideation through launch. Manages line extensions, stage-gate processes, timelines, budgets, performance reporting, and pipeline development. Uses Nielsen data and market insights to evaluate launches and recommend actions. Collaborates with Marketing, Sales, Customer Marketing, and channel teams to align priorities, support customer discussions, and drive cross-functional execution.

Supports strategic ecosystem initiatives and transformation programs by designing change and adoption strategies, engaging stakeholders, coordinating cross-functional execution, facilitating workshops, tracking risks and milestones, and measuring readiness, engagement, organizational health, and adoption progress. The role develops communications, interventions, tools, leadership updates, and insights that enable teams and partners to adopt new ways of working and achieve sustained business outcomes.

Owns enterprise project portfolio data integrity, maintains the single source of truth for initiatives, analyzes resource capacity and demand, supports reporting and dashboards, and develops the Enterprise Deployment digital capability roadmap. Partners with portfolio, business, data, project management, and technology stakeholders to improve prioritization, governance, automation, and enterprise decision-making.

Leads category management, commercial sourcing, external manufacturing, supplier partnerships, and Source-to-Contract activities across the Accelerator Division. Develops sourcing strategies, drives negotiations, improves cost and resilience, manages supplier performance, and influences enterprise procurement priorities. Provides strategic leadership, develops sourcing talent, and collaborates with Quality, Manufacturing, Planning, R&D, Finance, and executive stakeholders across a global matrixed organization.

Leads regional strategic sourcing and procurement partnerships for Mars Snacking North America. Owns sourcing strategy, supplier relationships, commercial execution, performance accountability, risk management, and collaboration with global sourcing teams. Manages regional materials sourcing, KPIs, SLAs, crisis resolution, and business partnering across direct and indirect categories. Requires strong procurement methodology, financial analytics, project management, supplier management, and proficiency with Power BI, SAP, and MRP systems.

Leads consumer insights for the North America Fruity Candy portfolio, translating qualitative and quantitative research, market data, cultural trends, and shopper intelligence into brand, innovation, portfolio, and business strategies. Partners with Marketing, Sales, R&D, Innovation, Strategy, Finance, and Global teams; manages research agencies and budgets; identifies growth opportunities; and communicates actionable recommendations that influence decisions and drive business impact.

Leads strategic sourcing and procurement partnerships for Mars Snacking North America. Serves as the procurement point of contact for strategic product teams, integrates sourcing and supply-risk considerations into product development and business planning, and coordinates category and sourcing leads through commercialization. Champions design-for-value, cost reduction, supply resilience, supplier innovation, and working capital improvements while managing supplier relationships, business financials, risks, projects, and cross-functional stakeholders.