Job Description:
The Workday Integrations leadership role within Digital Technologies (DT) acts as a strategic technology advisor and partner ensures the design, delivery and optimization of Workday integration solutions to enable Mars’ People (People & Organization) strategies across all Mars, Inc. segments.
Scope includes partnering closely with senior stakeholders, and subject matter experts in the Mars Global Services (MGS) organization across HR, Finance and other service lines as well as other global function and business segment application owners to understand business priorities and translating them into technology solutions that drive business value, promote single source of truth and optimize productivity across end-to-end processes. The focus of the role is to leverage Workday and modern technologies to expand our connected ecosystem across the HR Technology landscape.
Key Responsibilities:
Partner with P&0 in shaping the Integration Strategy and Architecture for the HR area, including the deployment of scalable process, integration and automation capabilities aligned with internal and external best practices and emerging trends.
As a Senior member of the DT team for HR technical solutions, role is responsible for defining and applying global technology standards, processes and driving common integration solutions across the enterprise to connect capabilities across the technology ecosystem.
Contribute to the global HR technology strategy to support data integrity, operational efficiency and service excellence leveraging consolidation across segments, standardization and automation drivers
Partner with relevant business segment Functional and Technical Experts, functional Business Partnership Managers to create global IT capabilities which are aligned with the HR and other functional & segment strategies, engaging Business Partnership Managers and utilizing development, deployment and technology hub teams as appropriate.
Identify opportunities to develop and/or deploy new global capabilities and digital experiences through integration projects and enhancements including use of Workday capabilities including Orchestration and Extend
Drive down the portfolio complexity and TCO within this specific functional area across all global, regional and local applications.
Manages a global team of associates and contractors to lead design, development, testing and deployment of integrations to ensure data accuracy and efficiency.
Contribute to the development of the cross-functional application portfolio strategy that builds increasing value through modern digital capabilities, scale efficiencies and automation.
Job Qualifications:
Masters/Engineering degree in IT, Business or relevant business function (e.g. Human Resources) or equivalent
5-8 years’ experience in the HR functional area with specific Workday Integration deployment leadership
Solutions Architecture, Applications portfolio management
Global line management & people development, HR Operations /Managed Services experience
Budget Management and Project Management for large global projects
Stakeholder Relationship Management of functional experts and application owners
Excellent project management skills, able to partner with 3rd party consultants and handle multiple projects, deadlines and escalations.
Strong verbal and written communication skills, with ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
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Skills Required
- Master’s or engineering degree in IT, business, human resources, or a relevant field, or equivalent experience
- 5–8 years of experience in an HR functional area
- Experience leading Workday integration deployments
- Solutions architecture experience
- Applications portfolio management experience
- Global line management and people development experience
- HR operations or managed services experience
- Budget management and project management experience for large global projects
- Stakeholder relationship management with functional experts and application owners
- Excellent project management, communication, and technical-concept translation skills
- Experience partnering with third-party consultants and managing multiple projects, deadlines, and escalations
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.
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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.
