Jobs at Mars

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.

Design and transform global non-VIM invoice-processing processes across markets. The role supports workshops, solution reviews, process documentation, testing, change impact assessments, deployments, country validation, and stakeholder alignment across Finance, Procurement, Tax, and Digital Transformation. It requires strong invoice processing, Accounts Payable, P2P/S2P, ERP, SAP, workflow, and transformation experience, plus the ability to manage ambiguity and deliver in a global project environment.

Participate in Mars Snacking’s strategic sales internship by owning a business objective from planning through execution. Work with customers, support confectionery brand growth, collaborate with sales teams, engage senior stakeholders, and contribute to meaningful business deliverables. The 10–11-week program includes mentorship, training, networking, and professional development. Candidates must be students graduating after the internship, legally authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship, able to complete screening, and provide transportation to the Chicago worksite.

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 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.

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.

Support SAP Quality and Food Safety solutions by translating requirements into technical user stories, writing and executing test cases, coordinating test data and UAT, tracking defects, and aligning technical, data, deployment, and business teams. Provide guidance on the SAP QM template, analyze template gaps, promote standardization, support deployments, and maintain documentation, training, and best practices across Hold & Release and product traceability processes.

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.

Define and lead global trade promotion, budgeting, and accrual validation processes. Drive standardization, process improvements, automation and KPI-based transformation. Support ERP/TPM system enablement and reporting, collaborate with finance, controllership, MGSF and segment stakeholders to optimize promotional spend and ensure financial control.

Partner with Sustainability, Risk, Legal and corporate teams to translate regulatory and reporting needs into scalable data and analytics solutions. Create proofs of concept (basic coding, Power BI), define functional requirements, ensure data quality, and support solution design, integration, and delivery-ready artifacts for sustainability reporting and analytics.

Translate sustainability strategy, regulatory needs, and emerging risks into scalable data and analytics solutions. Advise senior stakeholders, define solution patterns and delivery-ready artifacts, lead proof-of-concept work (basic coding, Power BI), ensure data quality, auditability, and compliance, and mentor Solution Engineers to embed best practices.

The Trade Finance Analyst manages trade expenditures, calculates TREX accruals, reconciles balance sheet accounts, supports TPM system implementation, and analyzes trade-related payments and invoices for the France market.