Job Description:
As a Unit Facilitator at Mars, you will drive operational excellence in one or more animal care units, ensuring high standards of welfare, efficiency, and data quality. This role focuses on team leadership without direct reports, using lean manufacturing principles to streamline processes, optimize resources, and improve workflows. You will collaborate with multiple stakeholders and oversee key operational and continuous improvement initiatives, to enhance unit performance.
Location: Waltham Petcare Science Institute, full-time of site
Working Monday-Friday, 37.5 hours per week, and performing as a senior site supervisor for 12 weekends a year & up to 3 bank holidays.
Salary: £33,000 - 37,500, annual bonus, benefits
What are we looking for?
Experience in research operations, animal care management, or manufacturing environments.
Knowledge of lean manufacturing, process optimization, and operational excellence.
Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and influence stakeholders.
Strong organizational and problem-solving skills to drive efficiency.
Key Responsibilities:
Oversee unit operations, ensuring compliance, efficiency, and high welfare standards.
Apply lean principles to optimize work processes and eliminate inefficiencies.
Lead daily team briefings, assigning tasks and ensuring smooth workflows.
Monitor data quality, operational metrics, and process performance.
Coach and train associates, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
Manage scheduling and resource allocation to maximize productivity.
Identify and implement operational improvements in safety, quality, and efficiency.
Supervise a team of approximately 25 associates and 5 contractors, fostering a collaborative, high-performance culture.
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 a company bonus.
Find out more about what Mars can offer you by visiting our Global Careers site.
Mars is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable adjustments for individuals with disabilities, long-term health conditions or are neurodiverse during the application and recruitment process. To request reasonable adjustments, complete our Reasonable Adjustment Request Form here
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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.
