Job Description:
The Product & Process Implementation (PPI) Manager - Wet is responsible to deploy R&D specifications needed for manufacturing of WET products on existing manufacturing standards and for new technology to achieve process specifications conformance and finished product specifications conformance.
What are we looking for?
Minimum Requirements
Bachelor’s or in Engineering, Food Science, or a related technical field or equivalent
Demonstrated industry experience as R&D engineer or Quality & Food Safety Engineer
2+ years of experience in a people leadership role, with demonstrated ability to develop and engage a technical team.
2-3 years relevant experiences in food technology development, process & product scale-up and/or implementation
Working in a company with multicultural and international features
Preferred Qualifications
Advanced degree in Engineering, Food Science, or a related technical field
Green belt or Black belt for Lean 6-Sigma is a plus
5+ years relevant experiences in food technology development, process & product scale-up and/or implementation
Proven track record of leading complex industrialization or commercialization projects from pilot to full-scale production
Project Management experience
What will be your key responsibilities?
Leads Self & Others
Lead, develop, and engage a WET PPI team, building deep technical capability, accountability, and a strong performance culture.
Role‑model Mars leadership behaviors, ensuring clarity of expectations, regular feedback, and growth of future leaders.
Deliver technical training to site teams on process principles, product quality, and performance standards.
Delivers Results
Translate R&D and Quest (our long-term innovation pipeline) strategies into clear regional Wet industrialization priorities.
Own delivery outcomes across the manufacturing network, ensuring disciplined execution and measurable business impact.
Ensures Quality & Safety
Own the deployment and sustained conformance of Wet product, process, and raw material specifications.
Safeguard food safety, quality, and performance in line with Royal Canin standards and the Mars Quality principle.
Follow and enforce pre-requisite actions for process validation as a requirement for Hand Over 0 (HO0) signature.
Decision Quality & Managing Complexity
Lead regional industrial risk assessment and decision-making for new materials, processes, products, and technologies.
Lead complex problem solving (troubleshooting level 2) related to raw material, product and process.
Drive robust, data‑based decisions to enable compliant, resilient, and scalable implementations.
Own the Hand Over 1 (HO1) signature for small/minor projects and support the Global Technology Specialist on major projects.
Leads Change & Industrialization
Act as the regional R&D leader for Wet industrialization, driving innovation scale‑up, portfolio transfers, and critical regional initiatives.
Implement robust processes for commissioning, capturing learnings, and establishing repeatable, best-practice ways of working.
Collaborates & Balances Stakeholders
Build strong, trust‑based partnerships with Quality, Food Safety, Regulatory, Engineering, Manufacturing, Planning, and Commercial teams.
Enable seamless execution through alignment, clarity of roles, and shared accountability.
R&D representative for the Commissioning, Validation, and Start-Up (CVS) process.
Support CVS and PPI teams with on-site protocol execution.
Thinks Long Term
Shape the future of Wet technology by contributing expertise and key learnings to global R&D and PPI communities.
Proactively strengthen future deployments by investing in team capability and establishing a knowledge transfer framework.
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.
Best-in-class 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.
Mars does not sponsor visas for this role.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's or Equivalent in Engineering, Food Science or related field
- 2+ years experience in a people leadership role
- 2-3 years relevant experiences in food technology development
- Demonstrated industry experience as R&D engineer or Quality & Food Safety Engineer
- Project Management 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.
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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.
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