Sr Manager, Strategic Initiatives
About The Position
The Sr Manager, Strategic Initiatives designs and delivers high-priority, cross-functional initiatives that advance the Mars Snacking Commercial agenda. The role turns complex or ambiguous business challenges into executable plans, mobilizes relevant partners, and drives initiatives from strategy through implementation, adoption, and measurable outcomes. The immediate focus is driving Mars Snacking Commercial integration priorities across people, process and policy, and digital, while co-creating the future Commercial transformation agenda. The position leads end-to-end initiative delivery, coordinates teams across functions, develops fact-based solutions, establishes governance and decision support, and works with partners to enable change and adoption. It also supports the identification and prioritization of future initiatives and develops reusable practices to strengthen the Strategic Initiatives capability.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree.
- At least 5 years of experience in procurement/commercial, supply chain, business strategy, or a related field.
- Significant experience leading complex, cross-functional strategic initiatives from problem definition through implementation and adoption.
- Ability to structure ambiguous problems, develop fact-based options and recommendations, and translate strategy into executable plans.
- Strong project and program management discipline, including governance, milestones, dependencies, risks, resources, decisions, and benefits tracking.
- Experience influencing senior stakeholders and leading teams through a matrix without relying on formal authority.
- Excellent written, verbal, and visual communication skills, including preparation of executive-level materials.
Nice To Haves
- Advanced degree and/or recognized project, program, change, or continuous-improvement certification.
- Integration, transformation, or operating-model experience.
- Working knowledge of change management, process design, digital enablement, and capability building.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end design and delivery of assigned Commercial strategic initiatives, translating complex challenges into objectives, workplans, milestones, owners, decision points, risks, and success measures.
- Mobilize and coordinate cross-functional teams across Commercial, Finance, Supply Chain, Digital Technology, Legal, People & Organization, and other relevant functions; manage interdependencies and accountability across workstreams.
- Structure problems, test assumptions, develop options, and recommend practical solutions, balancing strategic perspective with operational implementation detail.
- Establish fit-for-purpose governance and maintain visibility into progress, risks, dependencies, resource constraints, and decisions; escalate issues and support timely leadership trade-offs.
- Build trusted relationships with senior Commercial and functional stakeholders, prepare concise decision-oriented materials, and communicate complex topics in leadership forums.
- Partner with Change & Communications and People & Organization to incorporate impact assessment, stakeholder engagement, communications, training, capability building, and adoption measures into initiative plans.
- Support identification, prioritization, and scoping of emerging Commercial initiatives.
- Capture lessons, tools, methods, and reusable practices to strengthen the Strategic Initiatives capability over time.
Benefits
- Company bonus
- Medical benefits
- Dental benefits
- 401k plan
- Paid time off benefits
- Learning and development support from day one, including access to Mars University
- Industry-competitive salary and benefits package
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
