Job Description:
The purpose of the role is to work in partnership to deliver digital capabilities in line with the transformation agenda and the ongoing SQA digital strategy. The role will partner with functional and digital experts, global and regional procurement leadership teams as well as external partners to set the SQA digital strategy and deliver all digital enablers.
What will be your key responsibilities?
- You will lead the co-creation and deployment of the digital strategy for the SQA area in Procurement, including identifying digital opportunities, aligning with internal and external stakeholders and executing the agenda.
- You will be responsible for the digital budget to provide digital solutions within the SQA scope, ensuring full alignment to Pet Nutrition’s wider digital Strategy to meet and exceed the strategic goals.
- You will have partner with the SQA lead and regional SQA managers the SQA digital agenda, partnering extensively with functional and digital leaders (VP and Director level) and collaborate with cross-functional global and regional teams.
- You will be responsible for performing risk, issue, and escalation management when and where required for the multiple projects.
- You will partner with Procurement Transformation programs with SQA involvement, R&D and Supply teams, Mars Global Services Global Digital Operations & Shepherd program organization to account for all necessary integration.
What are we looking for?
- You will have extensive of experience and a Bachelor in the field of Technology, Business, Computer Science or equivalent experience.
- You will have experience of Digital projects and transformation within procurement with a focus on working on SQA.
- You will have experienced in identifying and selecting digital solutions that are fit for purpose.
- You will have experience with new technologies experience preferably with a continuous improvement.
What can you expect from Mars?
- Work with over 140,000 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 company bonus.
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Mars is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request.
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.
