Job Description:
Royal Canin’s mission is to transform each cat and dogs’ health and well-being by pushing the limits of nutrition and knowledge in partnership with pet professionals. Through our products and services, we serve almost half a billion pets every year, and through our global scale, passionate Associates, knowledge, and capabilities we help shape the future of pet care.
To make our ambitions a reality, Royal Canin is undertaking a major business transformation focusing on end-to-end business processes, people, and data, enabled by technology. Through this transformation we are aiming to reinvent our core processes, adapting our data models and tech platforms while focusing on enhancing the experience for users, customers, and our Associates.
The business transformation includes initiatives focusing on protecting business continuity to create a more efficient, easy, and sustainable organization of work. The outcomes of this transformation will result in an excellent level of service that will drive competitive advantage, easy-to-do business for our customers and consumers, improved operations that increase Associate wellbeing, as well as processes and capabilities to power our health through nutrition business while enabling sustainable growth.
Are you a Sustainability professional with a passion for driving value through process design and technology? Do you thrive in transformative environments where you can make a real impact? We are seeking a Mars associate to join the EOS program and build our next generation processes and digital capabilities to support our Sustainability objectives, working on our global business transformation that contributes to Royal Canin's Purpose: A BETTER WORLD FOR PETS. Working on the transformation will allow you to drive strategic initiatives that will revolutionize the way we do business.
What are we looking for?
Education & Professional Qualifications
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Business or Engineering School Degree
Knowledge / Experience
- 3-5 experience in the field of Sustainability
- Knowledge and interest for process design and process improvement
- Experience across data collection and reporting systems including audit requirements and processes
- Experience working with distributed multi-cultural teams
What will be your key responsibilities?
- Strongly Partners with the RC Global Climate Lead to ensure sustainability processes and capabilities designed as part of the transformation program are in line with the OGSM.
- Has direct responsibility for designing the processes that will enable the tracking of organizational carbon and plastic footprint and that will enable reporting to comply with legal requirements and support decision making to reach sustainability objectives.
- Has the responsibility to influence domain owners to build system capabilities embedding Sustainability requirements. Provides sustainability inputs/requirements, for them to build the right processes empowered by data to enable measurement of Sustainability targets.
- Partners with Royal Canin business stakeholders in all domains to capture and document pain points, functional gaps and business requirements, informing fit-for-purpose process modeling.
- Partners with a wide range of stakeholders across Mars segments and corporate functions to drive the design, development and configuration of standard best-practice global business capabilities.
- Support template design/build activities with the program business and system integrators to ensure timely project delivery.
- Provides guidance and functional expertise for the functional area in scope.
- Ensures new template solutions are fully tested and signed off.
- Ensures knowledge of new processes Is effectively transferred to the trainers in charge of end user training and works with the Change Experience Management team to support change management activities and drive adoption of new system capabilities.
What can you expect from Mars?
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Work with over 130,000 diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles.
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Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
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Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
