Job Description:
This role is responsible for the 24-hour, 7-day performance of a Line or Area within a larger Value Stream organization, with full accountability for business results and the overall capability of the operation. As a manager of managers, this role leads a team of shift-based leaders to deliver operational targets while building an engaged, high-performing organization across all shifts.
In this role, you will bring a strong technical foundation, including working knowledge of MSE (TPM), daily management systems, and process controls. This role sets the strategic direction for the area while ensuring consistent implementation and enforcement of established policies and standards, partnering across functions to drive performance, strengthen capability, and deliver safe, quality, and efficient operations.
Minimum:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Sciences, or Business-related disciplines
- 3+ years of direct people leadership experience
- 5+ years of experience in a Continuous Improvement manufacturing environment
- Working knowledge of Good Manufacturing Practices
- Strong technical knowledge of processes, equipment, controls, and products, or the ability to develop this knowledge
- Ability to deploy training strategies and effectively develop others
- Understanding of major plant functions with the ability to work across all levels
- Functional knowledge of HACCP concepts
- Experience with plant sanitation practices and procedures
Preferred:
- Cocoa processing experience
- Manage operating teams across shifts to efficiently convert materials into quality products in a safe, secure, and sanitary manner, in line with product specifications and budget targets
- Deliver area performance by influencing and partnering with cross-functional teams, including Engineering, Quality Services, Commercial, and Scheduling/Logistics
- Develop and execute elements of the 90-day plan to address losses and build associate capability
- Coach Production Leaders, Continuous Improvement Specialists, and technical resources to strengthen leadership capability and drive accountability in Safety, Quality and Food Safety, Autonomous Maintenance, and team engagement
- Drive associate engagement through a strong foundation of teamwork and individual accountability
- Partner with the Value Stream Manager and Operations support teams to develop and execute short- and long-term strategies that improve overall area performance
- Work with over 130,000 diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles
- Join a purpose driven company focused on building the world we want tomorrow, today
- Access best-in-class learning and development from day one, including Mars University
- Competitive salary, bonus, and comprehensive benefits package
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Sciences, or Business-related disciplines
- 3+ years of direct people leadership experience
- 5+ years of experience in a Continuous Improvement manufacturing environment
- Working knowledge of Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP)
- Working knowledge of MSE (TPM)
- Experience with daily management systems
- Knowledge of process controls and strong technical understanding of processes, equipment, controls, and products
- Ability to deploy training strategies and effectively develop others
- Understanding of major plant functions and ability to work across all levels
- Functional knowledge of HACCP concepts
- Experience with plant sanitation practices and procedures
- Cocoa processing 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.
