Job Description:
Our Mars Digital Supply Chain Transformation is now accelerating to maximize the value we create and capture for our business. We are accelerating as digital and data-driven solutions become more critical to our performance.
Supply Chain Transformation will focus on E2E Planning digital capabilities (this role will focus on OMP for Royal Canin)
This role will play an important role in helping to partner with our key business stakeholders, to both see how existing business problems can be solved using new and existing digital capability and to help support the team by bringing in external thought leadership.
What are we looking for?
- Up to 5 years experience in delivering IT capabilities within a business function preferably in supply chain planning in the CPG industry.
- Proven technical awareness of new digital platforms: one or more exposure to: DevOps, Platform Architecture, Automation, Integration, Software (OMP, Kinaxis, BY, S4/SAP …).
- Proven analytical, problem-solving, and stakeholder management abilities.
- Proven ability to navigate a fast-paced environment and manage multiple priorities.
- Proven ability to navigate a complex and matrixed organizational landscape.
What will be your key responsibilities?
- Operate globally within Petcare Segment, partnering with business leaders to define and manage high-value IT products and digital initiatives.
- Collaborate across regions with IT peers to develop robust capabilities and partner closely with Business Supply Chain Teams.
- Identify and codify business problems into technical requirements or functional specs.
- Lead IT projects centrally across a roadmap of portfolio activities. This will include activities following the cycle of discovery, prototyping, to pilot and first stage minimum viable product (MVP) in addition to supporting the delivery of new capability on our existing digital platforms.
- Partner closely with business Product Owners and Functional Experts to deliver the assigned projects.
- Bring external insights and trends to influence business transformation at Mars.
- Partnership with Tier 1 and niche Tier 2 vendor partners to deliver projects and new capability activities.
- Maintain financial diligence, ensuring alignment within Mars’ strategic goals.
What can you expect from Mars?
- Work with over 140,000 diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles.
- Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
- Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
- An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.
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Mars is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request.
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What We Do
For more than a century, Mars, Incorporated has been driven by the belief that the world we want tomorrow starts with how we do business today. This idea is at the center of who we have always been as a global, family-owned business. Today, Mars is transforming, innovating and evolving in ways that affirm our commitment to making a positive impact on the world around us.
Across our diverse and expanding portfolio of confectionery, food, and petcare products and services, we employ 133,000 dedicated Associates who are all moving in the same direction: forward. With $40 billion in annual sales, we produce some of the world’s best-loved brands including DOVE®, EXTRA®, M&M’s®, MILKY WAY®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, ORBIT®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, SKITTLES®, WHISKAS®, COCOAVIA®, and 5™; and take care of half of the world’s pets through our pet health services AniCura, Banfield Pet Hospitals™, BluePearl®, Linnaeus, Pet Partners™, and VCA™.
We know we can only be truly successful if our partners and the communities in which we operate prosper as well. The Mars Five Principles – Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom – inspire our Associates to take action every day to help create a world tomorrow in which the planet, its people and pets can thrive.
