Job Description:
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Enterprise Technology Digital R&D team, who are responsible for the strategy and governance of R&D digital ecosystem and delivery of new digital capabilities meeting the needs of corporate and functional strategies across the R&D function in Mars Inc.
The Enterprise Technology Project Manager – R&D Analytics leads the delivery of technology initiatives across the R&D Analytics portfolio. The role manages end-to-end project execution following the PMX framework, including planning, budget, stakeholder engagement, risk management, governance, vendor coordination, and BAU transition. The Project Manager ensures projects are delivered on time, within budget, and aligned with business objectives and enterprise standards.
The role works in close partnership with Corporate R&D Analytics, Enterprise Technology, Business Data Solutions (BDS), Enterprise Architecture (EA), and segment stakeholders to translate the analytics roadmap into executable projects and measurable business outcomes.
The Project Manager ensures effective delivery governance, manages cross-functional dependencies, monitors investment and delivery performance, and helps teams overcome obstacles to deliver trusted, scalable, and business-relevant analytics capabilities.
Key Responsibilities:
Analytics Project Delivery
- Lead end-to-end delivery of analytics and data initiatives, ensuring alignment with agreed business priorities and technology roadmaps.
- Translate strategic priorities into project plans, milestones, deliverables, resource requirements, and measurable outcomes.
- Coordinate business, data, analytics, engineering, architecture, and technology teams across multiple geographies.
- Manage project scope, timelines, budgets, risks, issues, dependencies, and change requests.
- Ensure delivery teams maintain clear accountability for commitments and deliverables.
- Support deployment, adoption, and transition of analytics capabilities into ongoing operations.
Enterprise R&D Analytics Roadmap
- Manage a portfolio of analytics initiatives spanning relevant R&D business areas and segments.
- Ensure alignment between business requirements, data availability, technical architecture, and delivery capacity.
- Identify dependencies and potential conflicts across analytics initiatives, platforms, and teams.
- Support prioritization and planning by providing transparent information on delivery progress, capacity, risks, and expected benefits.
Governance and Stakeholder Engagement
- Support advanced analytics governance by coordinating project status, dependencies, and required stakeholder decisions.
- Prepare clear status reports, executive updates, portfolio dashboards, and steering committee materials.
- Facilitate alignment across Corporate R&D Analytics, Enterprise Technology, BDS, EA, and segment teams.
- Proactively identify and escalate blockers requiring leadership support.
- Ensure decisions, actions, and delivery commitments are documented and followed through.
Delivery Excellence and Continuous Improvement
- Apply Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid project management approaches according to initiative requirements.
- Promote collaboration between business stakeholders and technical delivery teams.
- Identify opportunities to improve delivery processes, portfolio reporting, and governance effectiveness.
- Support consistent standards for project documentation, risk management, and delivery reporting.
- Encourage early identification of delivery challenges and a proactive, solution-oriented mindset.
- Follow Project Management Excellence to ensure compliance with Mars framwork.
Job Qualifications:
- 8+ years in delivery of digital capabilities within a business function, preferably in the CPG industry.
- Bachelor degree in IT, Business or relevant business function
- Functional expertise and awareness in core R&D processes, with strong understanding of R&D data, analytics, reporting, and business intelligence capabilities.
- Strong ability to lead and influence in a matrix organisation
- Experience of leading projects using both Agile & Waterfall methodologies.
- Experience working in a product-oriented organisation
- Project Management experience working with Global Teams (multi-segment).
- PMP certified preferred.
- Familiarity with enterprise data platforms, cloud technologies, data governance, and analytics solutions is preferred.
- Budget management and financial acumen.
- Risk management and change management expertise.
- Excellent communication, facilitation, and problem-solving skills.
- Fluency in English and experience working with geographically distributed teams.
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Skills Required
- 8+ years delivering digital capabilities within a business function
- Bachelor’s degree in IT, Business, or a relevant business function
- Functional expertise in R&D processes, data, analytics, reporting, and business intelligence
- Ability to lead and influence in a matrix organization
- Experience leading projects using Agile and Waterfall methodologies
- Experience working in a product-oriented organization
- Project management experience with global, multi-segment teams
- Budget management and financial acumen
- Risk management and change management expertise
- Excellent communication, facilitation, and problem-solving skills
- Fluency in English and experience working with geographically distributed teams
- Experience in the CPG industry
- PMP certification
- Familiarity with enterprise data platforms, cloud technologies, data governance, and analytics solutions
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.
