Job Description:
Job Purpose/Overview
A dynamic leadership role responsible for driving factory operational performance, leading culture transformation, and developing a high-performing production team. The Production Manager fosters engagement, ownership, accountability, and collaboration while championing operational excellence through continuous improvement and adherence to Mars Principles, Mindset & Behaviours, standards & processes. The role is critical to delivering sustainable business results and embedding the Mars Principles across manufacturing operations.
Key Responsibilities
Safety, Quality & Compliance
Provides strong operational leadership by ensuring full compliance with Safety, Quality, and Food Safety standards in line with Mars principles, policies, and operating requirements.
Ensures robust governance, risk management, and adherence to regulatory and Mars compliance requirements across manufacturing operations.
Operational Performance & Cost Management
Drives and sustains operational KPIs, including TRS(OEE), Production Schedule Adherence, Material Yield, Value Leadership Savings, Productivity, Efficiency, and other critical operational performance measures.
Optimizes manufacturing resources, cost performance, and asset utilization to deliver business targets.
Culture, Capability & Strategic Leadership
Leads and aligns all Operations Associates with the site strategy, driving engagement, capability development, and execution of annual business plans and objectives.
Manages, coaches, and develops Operations Associates while implementing WOW practices that accelerate results delivery; serves as the FMOS(Factory Management Operating System) Leader for plant.
Promotes a high-performance culture of engagement, ownership, accountability, and collaboration.
Serves as a key member of the Factory Management Team, contributing to strategic decision-making and initiatives that support the plant's desired future state.
Demonstrates visible leadership and acts as a role model for Mars Principles, Mindsets & Behaviors
Continuous Improvement & Operational Excellence
Fosters and embeds a Continuous Improvement (CI) mindset across aspects of operational performance, including KPI delivery, management systems, and ways of working.
Leads Operational Excellence initiatives through MWS(Mars Work System), TPM, Lean, and loss elimination methodologies to drive sustainable improvements and world-class manufacturing performance.
Works closely with Engineering/Maintenance, QFS, Supply Chain, HR, and Finance teams to resolve operational challenges, deliver business objectives, and drive sustainable improvements.
Job Specifications/Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in engineering (Chemical/Mechanical/Chemical/Food tech), Or MBA in Operations
At least 8-10 years of manufacturing experience, with a proven track record of leading and developing direct reports in reputable organizations.
Preferred Candidate could be from a premier engineering college
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, such as Chemical, Mechanical, or Food Technology, or an MBA in Operations
- At least 8–10 years of manufacturing experience
- Proven track record of leading and developing direct reports in reputable organizations
- Graduation from a premier engineering college
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.
