Job Description:
Overview
The IMO Digital & Data Organizational Effectiveness Lead exists to strengthen organizational alignment, leadership coordination, and team effectiveness across the Mars Snacking Integration Management Office (IMO) IMO Digital & Data organization supporting the integration of Mars and Kellanova.
As part of one of the largest and most complex business transformations in Mars Snacking history, this role helps create structure, connectivity, and consistency across teams, leadership forums, and ways of working to support integrated execution at scale. Operating within a fast-paced and highly matrixed environment, the role enables cross-functional coordination, communications flow, leadership rhythms, and organizational visibility to help teams remain aligned, informed, and positioned to execute effectively.
What are we looking for?
The IMO Digital & Data Organizational Effectiveness Lead is a highly organized, proactive, and collaborative professional who thrives in fast-paced transformation environments and enjoys bringing structure, clarity, and connectivity across complex organizations.
This role requires strong coordination, communication, stakeholder management, and leadership enablement capabilities, with the ability to work across multiple teams, priorities, and senior stakeholders simultaneously. The ideal candidate is comfortable navigating ambiguity, improving team effectiveness, supporting leadership forums, and helping create operational consistency across a highly matrixed global organization.
The successful candidate will act as a connective layer across the broader IMO Digital & Data ecosystem, helping improve collaboration, visibility, engagement, and organizational cohesion while supporting leaders in driving integrated execution across the Mars and Kellanova integration journey.
Key Responsibilities
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What will be your key responsibilities?
Coordinate leadership meetings, governance forums, All Hands sessions, High Performance Collaboration (HPC) workshops, development planning discussions, and strategic team events, including agendas, materials, logistics, action tracking, and follow-up to help drive alignment and execution across the organization
Support IMO Digital & Data leadership with prioritization support, executive readiness, meeting preparation, presentations, talking points, communications, and day-to-day coordination activities
Track and follow up on key organizational actions, decisions, dependencies, risks, and stakeholder requests across leadership forums and cross-functional teams
Maintain visibility across IMO Digital & Data priorities, milestones, organizational activities, stakeholder engagements, and leadership deliverables to help ensure teams remain aligned, informed, and connected
Reinforce consistent and efficient ways of working across the organization, including governance cadences, meeting structures, collaboration channels, documentation management, onboarding experiences, and communication practices
Leverage Microsoft Suite tools including Teams, SharePoint, PowerPoint, Outlook, Planner, Loop, Forms, and Copilot to improve organizational coordination, communication flow, collaboration, visibility, and team effectiveness
Identify opportunities to simplify and modernize team operations through automation, AI-enabled capabilities, improved templates, streamlined communications, digital collaboration tools, and more intuitive team experiences
Partner closely with PMO, Change Experience, Communications, and leadership teams to coordinate organizational updates, engagement activities, executive forums, and cross-functional initiatives across the broader IMO Digital & Data ecosystem
Prepare concise leadership summaries, dashboards, executive updates, presentations, and reporting materials to support visibility, alignment, and leadership decision-making
Support onboarding and integration activities for new associates, contractors, and partners joining the IMO Digital & Data organization, helping accelerate connectivity, engagement, and organizational understanding
Help coordinate team development planning activities, learning moments, recognition efforts, and engagement initiatives that support team growth, collaboration, and long-term organizational effectiveness
Support and reinforce a positive, connected, and high-performing team culture by helping facilitate engagement activities, collaboration rituals, health and wellness moments, and team connection opportunities across the organization
Help identify coordination gaps, communication breakdowns, organizational risks, and areas requiring leadership attention, escalating concerns proactively with clear context and recommendations
Support planning and execution of organizational communications, leadership workshops, integration-focused events, and team experiences that strengthen collaboration and connectivity across the Mars and Kellanova organizations
Serve as a trusted coordination and enablement partner to IMO Digital & Data leadership, helping improve organizational effectiveness, leadership alignment, execution consistency, and overall team experience across the transformation
Context and Scope
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What can you expect from Mars?
Work with 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.
A strong focus on 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.
Find out more about what Mars can offer you by visiting our Global Careers site.
Education & Professional Requirements
Bachelor’s degree preferred in Business, Communications, Human Resources, Organizational Leadership, or related field
Experience supporting leaders, teams, or cross-functional projects in a fast-paced environment
Strong organizational, communication, and coordination skills with attention to detail and follow-through
Ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively across different teams and stakeholders
Experience coordinating meetings, workshops, onboarding activities, communications, or team engagement activities
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including preparation of presentations, meeting materials, and summaries
Proficiency with Microsoft tools including Teams, Outlook, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Planner, Loop, and Copilot
Interest in using AI-enabled tools and digital capabilities to improve collaboration and team effectiveness
Positive, collaborative, and proactive mindset with strong professionalism and discretion
Experience supporting team culture, engagement activities, or organizational initiatives preferred
This is a program, role as part of the Mars Snacking integration program with a planned end date in Dec 2028.
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What can you expect from Mars?
Work with 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.
A strong focus on 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.
The base pay range for this position at commencement of employment is between the range listed below, however, base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including but not limited to job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position will include variable pay, medical and dental benefits, participation in 401k plan, and paid time off benefits. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an applicant receives an offer of employment.
The pay range shown is applicable to all US locations listed within the job posting:USD 153,600.00 - USD 211,200.00Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Communications, Human Resources, Organizational Leadership, or a related field
- Experience supporting leaders, teams, or cross-functional projects in a fast-paced environment
- Strong organizational, communication, coordination, attention-to-detail, and follow-through skills
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively across teams and stakeholders
- Experience coordinating meetings, workshops, onboarding activities, communications, or team engagement activities
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including presentation, meeting-material, and summary preparation
- Proficiency with Microsoft Teams, Outlook, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Planner, Loop, and Copilot
- Interest in using AI-enabled tools and digital capabilities to improve collaboration and team effectiveness
- Positive, collaborative, proactive mindset with professionalism and discretion
- Experience supporting team culture, engagement activities, or organizational initiatives
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.
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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.
Mars Insights
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.
