Marketing Acceleration Manager

Mars • Franklin, TN

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About The Position

The Marketing Acceleration Manager works across the Marketing organization and partners with senior leaders to turn strategic priorities into action and sustain momentum on important initiatives. The role provides coordination, planning, communication, and organizational leadership to align teams, clarify decisions, surface risks, and drive accountability. It supports how the Marketing organization operates and delivers business impact rather than owning a single Marketing area.

Working across strategy, operations, capability acceleration, and organizational effectiveness, the position supports leaders in maximizing team impact. It coordinates planning cycles and leadership forums, orchestrates the Marketing capability agenda, and leads organization-wide engagement moments to help Marketing work with greater focus, connection, alignment, and effectiveness.

Mars describes a purpose-driven workplace guided by its Five Principles, with diverse Associates, learning and development support from day one through Mars University, exposure to senior Marketing priorities, and an industry-competitive salary and benefits package that includes a company bonus.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Marketing, or a related field.
• At least 5 years of experience in Marketing, Sales, Strategy, or related commercial functions within the CPG/FMCG industry.
• Demonstrated success leading cross-functional work, creating clarity from ambiguity, influencing stakeholders across business levels, and driving follow-through.
• Strong understanding of marketing strategy, business planning processes, organizational effectiveness, operating rhythms, and change management principles.
• Ability to solve complex problems, navigate ambiguity, manage competing priorities, and work independently with minimal oversight.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, project management, stakeholder engagement, and meeting design skills.
• Strategic mindset and passion for continuous improvement, operational excellence, and measurable business impact.
• Experience orchestrating capability-building efforts, including training calendars, learning forums, onboarding moments, and best-practice sharing.

Nice To Haves

• MBA preferred.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Marketing leadership to turn high-priority initiatives into clear workplans, decision points, and accountability, and proactively surface delivery risks, dependencies, and opportunities.
• Coordinate annual planning cycles, business reviews, leadership forums, and cross-functional meetings; clarify priorities, capture decisions, track actions, and provide leaders with visibility.
• Orchestrate the Marketing capability agenda by managing the training calendar, coordinating learning forums, supporting onboarding, and connecting Associates with subject-matter experts, training, best-practice sharing, and future-ready skills and ways of working.
• Lead organization-wide Marketing engagement moments, including the annual Marketing engagement offsite, town halls, recognition programs, and leadership sessions.
• Create tools and routines to help leadership track priorities, milestones, capability progress, and organizational health.
• Identify opportunities to simplify work, improve knowledge sharing, and strengthen integration across the Marketing function.

Benefits

• Industry-competitive salary and benefits package, including a company bonus.
• Learning and development support from day one, including access to Mars University.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager