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 R&D Digital Technologies team is seeking a Quality and Food Safety IT Project Manager. The ET R&D DT team currently oversees R&D, Labs, and Innovation within Business as Usual (BAU). The role involves serving as DT Project Manager for BAU projects in the Quality domain.
Key Responsibilities:
- Roadmap & Delivery: Lead end-to-end delivery of Quality & Food Safety digital programs across the product lifecycle—from initial discovery, rapid prototyping, and pilot phases to Minimum Viable Product (MVP) rollout and platform continuous improvement.
- Cross-Functional Stakeholder Alignment: Partner with business Product Owners, Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), Enterprise Architecture, Analytics, and Segment Digital Teams to ensure technical solutions meet functional R&D standards and operational goals.
- Vendor & Partner Governance: Manage strategic Tier 1 and niche Tier 2 vendor relationships, overseeing resource allocation, third-party delivery milestones, and project budget execution.
- Innovation & Emerging Tech: Identify and evaluate emerging technologies (including AI and automated analytics) and industry thought leadership to drive continuous modernization within the Q&FS domain.
Job Qualifications:
- 5+ years in delivery of business capability within a business function (pref R&D), and preferably in the CPG industry.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a relevant field
- Experience deploying Digital solutions (x-segment)
- Strong Project Management skills – understands the different Project stage gates and will be able to advocate these to others
- Good communications, especially in English
- Technical awareness of new digital platforms, such as AI
- Capability to deliver through others
- Experience working in ambiguous and changing contexts
Skills Required
- 5+ years of experience delivering business capabilities within a business function
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a relevant field
- Experience deploying digital solutions across segments
- Strong project management skills, including understanding and advocating project stage gates
- Good communication skills, especially in English
- Technical awareness of new digital platforms, such as AI
- Ability to deliver through others
- Experience working in ambiguous and changing contexts
- Experience in R&D business functions
- Experience in the CPG industry
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.
