Assurance & Compliance Lead

Posted 9 Days Ago
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São Paulo, BRA
In-Office
Senior level
Food
The Role
Coordinates internal and external IT audits, including AI control assessments; manages evidence collection, management responses, remediation tracking, reporting, and follow-up testing. Plans security assessments using NIST frameworks, validates control remediation, advises projects on security and compliance control design, and improves assurance methodologies and reporting. The role also performs root cause analysis, trend assessment, stakeholder training, and supports responsible AI, information security, governance, and business process design.
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Job Description:

This position is part of a team that is responsible for ensuring Mars meets our regulatory obligations to honor consumer rights across jurisdictions and technologies. This role will drive the administration, configuration, and optimization of our enterprise privacy tech stacks; specifically owning the OneTrust platform and ServiceNow Data Privacy Identification (DPI) records. These systems form the foundation of our global Data Subject Access Request (DSAR), Cookie Consent, and Universal Consent programs.


What will be your key responsibilities?
  • Platform Strategy & Global Ownership: Define the strategic roadmap and serve as the global Product Owner for the OneTrust platform, ensuring robust, scalable compliance across all Mars Segments (including Snacking, Petcare, and Food) for core capabilities like Cookie Consent and Universal Consent Management.

  • Technical Excellence & Enablement: Deliver deep technical expertise on the OneTrust ecosystem to enable multi-segment business teams, translating complex regulatory requirements into practical, high-performance platform configurations.

  • Cross-Functional ServiceNow SME: Serve as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for ServiceNow Data Privacy Identification records (DPIs), bridging technical DevOps teams and non-technical Data Privacy offices to streamline data security workflows.

  • Acquisitions & Continuous Improvement: Architect and lead onboarding frameworks to seamlessly integrate new business acquisitions into the standardized Mars OneTrust instance, while driving continuous optimization initiatives to enhance program efficiency and compliance maturity.

  • Stakeholder & Assurance Partnership: Collaborate as a trusted partner with global Data Privacy, Security, Legal, and Compliance stakeholders to guarantee alignment with global data protection laws (e.g., GDPR, CCPA/CPRA).

  • Vendor & Operational Excellence: Lead external vendor relationships and third-party support partners, holding them accountable to operational Service Level Agreements (SLAs) to guarantee high availability and platform stability.


Qualifications

1. Education & Professional Qualification

  • Business or technical degree

  • Significant experience in digital technologies/governance  

2. Knowledge/Experience

  • Provide deep technical expertise on OneTrust platform configurations, system integrations, and software development lifecycles.

  • Able to translate complex regulatory, legal, and compliance requirements into practical, high-performance platform configurations and workflows.

  • A history of developing strong internal networks, able to inspire others and help others build capabilities.

  • Ability to set and achieve goals and manage multiple projects and priorities

  • Excellent ability to communicate (oral and written) and create presentations/visual materials

  • Business process design

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Skills Required

  • Business or technical degree
  • Significant experience in digital technologies or governance
  • Technical experience in AI, Responsible AI, or Trustworthy AI
  • Experience with risk-based assessments and information security
  • Experience with data science
  • Strong follow-through, execution, and attention to detail in complex environments with multiple stakeholders
  • Track record of developing external networks to stay current with trends and build best practices and strategies
  • History of developing strong internal networks and building organizational capabilities
  • Ability to set and achieve goals and manage multiple projects and priorities
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills, including creating presentations and visual materials
  • Business process design experience

Mars Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Mars and has not been reviewed or approved by Mars.

  • Healthcare Strength The benefits package is positioned as comprehensive, with broad medical coverage and additional protections like life insurance and short- and long-term disability. Mental health support is emphasized, including free mental health services and wellbeing programming under initiatives such as Mars Be Well.
  • Parental & Family Support Paid parental leave is highlighted as market-leading in the U.S., with an example of 18 weeks fully paid for both parents. Additional family-related leave types such as sick time for caregiving and bereavement leave are also described as part of the overall package.
  • Retirement Support Retirement offerings are described as strong, including 401(k) matching (with a 6% match cited) and pension plans in some cases. The broader package also references retirement savings options and contributions aligned to local market practice, supporting long-term financial security.

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The Company
HQ: Mc Lean, VA
41,866 Employees
Year Founded: 1911

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.

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