Jobs at Mars

Develops and implements supplier quality programs for food ingredients and packaging across India. Conducts supplier audits, manages corrective actions and compliance risks, monitors supplier performance, maintains qualification documentation, and drives food safety, quality, cost, and efficiency improvements. Partners with sourcing, R&D, supply chain, commercial, and site teams while training suppliers and supporting regional and global quality initiatives. The role requires extensive supplier and site travel.

Own mid- and long-term demand forecasting for Mars Snacking’s Chocolates and Gums categories across multiple channels. Develop rolling SKU, brand, and channel forecasts; integrate market trends, promotions, seasonality, product launches, and phase-outs; and drive consensus among Sales, Marketing, Commercial, Supply, Finance, Manufacturing, Logistics, and Customer Service. Present demand plans during S&OP to support inventory optimization, service levels, production feasibility, and business growth.

Leads supply chain transformation, process excellence, automation, network design, and digital and quick-commerce fulfillment strategy. Develops business cases, dashboards, SOPs, and performance improvements while deploying regional initiatives in India. Manages projects, stakeholders, logistics partners, and capability building across supply chain teams, with emphasis on inventory optimization, fast fulfillment, continuous improvement, and sustainability.

Leads the Integrated Business Planning cycle across commercial, supply chain, manufacturing, procurement, and finance teams. Owns forecasting, scenario planning, financial reconciliation, risk and opportunity identification, and executive performance reporting. Drives alignment of revenue, volume, inventory, productivity, and operational assumptions while ensuring plans are financially realistic and executable. Partners with senior stakeholders to improve forecast accuracy, business performance, and accountability across functions.

Leads enterprise technology strategy, delivery, and transformation across Finance, FinTech, Legal, and Risk. Oversees product platforms, Agile and DevOps adoption, AI and data initiatives, digital transformation, change management, vendor partnerships, governance, and technology operations. Partners with executive stakeholders to align global priorities, integrate platforms, manage dependencies, and deliver scalable, secure, value-driven outcomes across a federated enterprise technology organization.

Manage global operational risk programs including risk engineering, property loss prevention, and business resilience. Partner with stakeholders and vendors to drive governance, compliance, audits, remediation, data analysis, and program deployment to reduce loss and ensure business continuity across manufacturing and supply chain operations.

Serves as chief of staff and strategic partner to the Regional Commercial Head. Drives strategic alignment, portfolio prioritization, performance management, governance, leadership collaboration, team engagement, risk escalation, and continuous improvement across commercial and regional initiatives.

Provides regional functional expertise and support for enterprise R&D systems across Mars business segments. Responsibilities include key-user escalation support, training and knowledge management, incident and SLA review, data-quality governance, change and capability implementation, UAT and end-to-end testing, system issue resolution, and deployment support. The role partners with business stakeholders, product owners, process owners, and technology teams to validate functionality, manage improvements, and support successful system rollouts.

Leads transfer pricing transformation within a global SAP S/4HANA program. Translates tax policies into intercompany process and system requirements, supports solution design, testing, deployment, controls, audit readiness, and true-up processes. Coordinates stakeholders across Tax, Finance, Supply Chain, Operations, and IT while managing risks, issues, documentation, training, and post-go-live stabilization.

Leads Royal Canin’s global commercial operations transition, including the Digital Core/SAP S/4HANA migration. Owns transformation roadmaps, business cases, budgets, timelines, governance, process deployment, risk management, stakeholder alignment, operational stabilization, tool migrations, and transition PMO oversight. The role manages teams, coordinates global operational hubs, chairs steering committees, ensures compliance with commercial standards, and drives continuous improvement across service lines.

Leads sales finance across channels, including planning, forecasting, performance analytics, trade investment governance, customer P&Ls, and period-close reviews. Partners with Sales, Supply Chain, Marketing, and Finance leadership to translate financial results into actions, manage risks and opportunities, support audits, and drive profitable growth. Oversees quarterly business reviews, collections and deductions monitoring, executive insights, and development of a high-performing finance team.

Leads European deployment of integration solutions within Mars’s S/4HANA-based digital transformation program. Manages vendor resources, regional planning, milestones, budgets, risks, KPIs, technical workshops, stakeholder alignment, and deployment strategy across markets. Requires strong integration expertise across APIs, events, EDI, and enterprise integration platforms, along with experience managing outsourced teams and complex multinational delivery environments.

Leads global ingredient science research across flavors, mint, seasonings, grains, rice, potatoes, and related categories. Defines long-term technology strategy, converts scientific discoveries into commercialized ingredients, strengthens supply resilience, governs flavor development, and identifies intellectual property opportunities. Manages a global team of scientists, ensures research quality and safety compliance, and partners with R&D, manufacturing, quality, supply, commercial, regulatory, suppliers, academia, and research consortia.

Leads North American indirect tax requirements and global tax data governance for an SAP S/4HANA transformation. Oversees U.S. and Canadian tax processes, tax determination, reporting, reconciliations, data standards, tax technology integrations, testing, deployment, audit readiness, and compliance. Partners across Tax, Finance, IT, Master Data, Analytics, Procurement, Supply Chain, and Shared Services to improve tax data quality and establish scalable global operating models.

Leads European statutory financial reporting and compliance workstreams within a global SAP S/4HANA transformation. Defines local GAAP, IFRS, financial statement, disclosure, and regulatory reporting requirements; integrates them into global templates; and oversees design, testing, deployment, governance, controls, cutover, and hypercare. Partners with Finance, Controllership, Tax, IT, shared services, country teams, system integrators, and auditors to ensure compliant multi-country reporting solutions.

Lead discovery, rapid prototyping, and deployment of production-ready AI solutions for supply chain and manufacturing. Build Python-based RAG pipelines, semantic search, multi-agent workflows, data integrations, and enterprise platform connections. Engage frontline operations, translate business needs into technical requirements, manage agile delivery, and ensure prototypes are scalable and transferable to core engineering teams. Work across SAP, MES, shop-floor platforms, databases, telemetry, and unstructured data while collaborating with security, data, and architecture teams.

Build and refine AI-powered prototypes for supply chain and manufacturing operations. Engage with factory and warehouse teams, translate operational needs into software requirements, develop Python-based RAG and agentic systems, integrate APIs and data sources, and iterate prototypes based on frontline feedback. The role involves SQL and document data preparation, agile collaboration, occasional manufacturing-site travel, and progressive adoption of enterprise AI frameworks and production engineering practices.

Lead sourcing strategies and category management for marketing content, especially market research and insights. Manage global/regional supplier contracts, drive harmonization and automation, partner with senior marketing stakeholders, provide market and financial insights, mentor junior colleagues, and deliver cross-functional projects across the Content team.

Leads the identification, development, testing, and scaling of AI and automation solutions across internal delivery processes and future customer-facing use cases. Builds automated test suites, scripts repetitive workflows, pilots generative AI and agentic tools, creates reusable automation assets, tracks measurable value, and enables teams through training and knowledge sharing. Collaborates with project managers, product owners, process owners, testing communities, and delivery teams to ensure maintainable, responsible, and broadly adopted solutions.

Supports the design, implementation, testing, validation, deployment, and ongoing guidance of SAP S/4HANA Quality Management templates. Partners with process owners, regional teams, system integrators, and deployment teams to define requirements, harmonize processes, ensure compliance, manage knowledge, conduct fit-to-template reviews, execute UAT, and analyze template gaps. Provides guidance on integrations, standardization, documentation, training, and best practices for quality and food safety processes.