Project Management Lead, Transformation Office

Antech•New York, NY

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Science & Diagnostics (SDx) business is dedicated to building an outcome-focused organization that brings to bear products and services that help pets stay healthy longer and support the people that love and care for pets. SDx embodies the Mars Petcare Purpose, to Make a Better World for Pets, by using science and technology to advance preventive health, early and precision diagnostics, and monitoring for pets. The SDx business consists of multiple product/service lines across the diagnostics spectrum, including reference lab services, point-of-care diagnostics and imaging equipment, and at-home diagnostics. Under the SDx umbrella are also Waltham Pet Science Institute and Vetsource. The Target Pay Range for this position is $147,000-$184,000 annually. Pay decisions are determined using factors such as relevant job-related skills, experience, education, training, and budget.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree preferred in Business Administration (with or without a health focus) Health Administration/Management, Communication, Psychology, Sociology, Informatics, Health Information Management or a combination of education, training and experience to provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities
Required minimum of 7–10 years of related experience, including 3+ years in transformation, PMO/portfolio management, strategy, consulting, or a comparable role supporting executive decision-making and cross-functional delivery.
Required experience working with geographically distributed teams working across several time zones.
Required Experience working with large scale, multi-team projects.
Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite or related software
Executive communication & storytelling: ability to synthesize complex inputs into clear, decision-ready narratives, dashboards, and recommendations for senior leaders.
Strategic planning & portfolio management: experience establishing prioritization criteria, governance, and operating cadence to drive alignment and focus across multiple initiatives.
Analytical problem-solving: strong ability to structure ambiguous problems, quantify trade-offs, and use data to diagnose issues, manage risk, and improve outcomes.
Financial & value orientation: comfort with benefits cases, KPI design, variance analysis, and value realization tracking in partnership with Finance and functional owners.
Influence without authority: ability to align stakeholders, facilitate tough conversations, and drive decisions across functions, regions, and business units.
Organization & execution discipline: strong operating rigor to manage multiple high-priority efforts, maintain governance artifacts, and ensure follow-through on actions and decisions.
Tools: advanced proficiency in PowerPoint and Excel (and/or BI tools) for executive reporting; strong working knowledge of Microsoft 365 collaboration tools.

Nice To Haves

Credentials in project/program/portfolio management (e.g., PMP/PgMP) and/or strategy/analytics (e.g., Lean/Six Sigma, finance, data/BI) are a plus

Responsibilities

Partner with business stakeholders, functional leaders, and workstream owners to define outcomes, success measures, and an integrated transformation roadmap.
Establish an effective operating cadence that enables rapid prioritization, dependency management, and timely leadership decisions, creating the clarity and accountability required to deliver strategic outcomes at scale.
Live and exemplify the Five Principles of Mars, Inc. within self and team.
Own the transformation portfolio operating cadence (e.g., weekly/monthly leadership reviews), including consolidation of inputs, performance reporting, and follow-up to ensure decisions and actions are executed.
Build and maintain an integrated transformation roadmap across workstreams; identify, quantify, and manage cross-workstream dependencies, critical path items, and enterprise risks.
Lead intake and strategic alignment: define initiative charters (problem statement, outcomes, KPIs, scope boundaries), establish prioritization criteria, and ensure alignment across regions, functions, and business units.
Drive team performance against agreed outcomes, milestones, and benefits; highlight variances, root causes, and corrective actions to ensure delivery of measurable business impact.
Design and run transformation governance (forums, agendas, readouts, and decision logs); synthesize insights for leadership and drive clear escalation and resolution pathways for cross-functional issues.
Support program capacity planning and resource allocation: surface constraints, trade-offs, and sequencing recommendations to optimize time-to-value across initiatives.
Proactively identify blockers and decision gaps; facilitate cross-functional alignment and, when needed, partner with the STEAO PMO to mobilize the right resources to remove impediments.
Establish and maintain a value realization approach (financial and operational): define KPIs, track benefits, validate assumptions with Finance/functional owners, and provide insight-based recommendations to improve outcomes.
Own portfolio-level RACI and decision management: continuously identify, quantify, and track risks, issues, actions, assumptions, and decisions; assess enterprise impact and elevate to sponsors and leadership to protect outcomes.
Build and maintain strong relationships with cross-functional and cross-banner leaders; act as a trusted integrator who enables aligned decisions, clear accountability, and effective escalation to senior leadership.
In partnership with TMO CA Lead, create executive-ready communications (dashboards, narratives, and decision briefs) for sponsors and governance forums; maintain concise portfolio documentation (roadmap, KPI definitions, RACI, decision log) and ensure version control and transparency.
Partner with change management and communications resources to align change plans, stakeholder engagement, and adoption metrics to the transformation roadmap.
Anticipate and facilitate resolution of cross-workstream conflicts (scope, sequencing, resourcing); surface trade-offs and escalate when executive intervention is required.
Continuously improve the TMO/PMO toolset and ways of working (templates, governance rhythms, KPI taxonomy, reporting automation) to increase efficiency, consistency, and decision quality.
Other job duties as assigned