Job Description:

Mars has made significant progress initiating projects to decarbonize its supply chain across agriculture, transportation, packaging, and operations, and is rapidly scaling up programs and governance to support these projects. Beyond this, a variety of services, indirect purchases, and atypical or recently acquired business units make up more than 7% of Mars’ Scope 3 footprint, including digital technology, marketing services, veterinary services, investments and travel. Mars is committed to Net Zero by 2050 and a 50% reduction in full value chain emissions by 2030. Mars needs to expand capabilities across raws, packaging, transport and operations while also building new capabilities to reduce emissions in services, indirects, and acquisitions.

This role will focus on leading the development of accounting and mitigation strategies for spend-based accounting and will be Mars subject matter expert on this topic, something that does not exist in our business today. Internally, the associate will engage leadership of relevant functions and business units (including the Sustainability VP’s and CMO’s for each Mars segment), lead working groups, design strategies, recommend process and system changes, develop policies, identify mitigation opportunities, and support business unit action to reduce emissions. In addition to emissions reductions, there are financial savings that this role could identify and help deliver. This role will be at the cutting edge of climate innovation in these categories and will need to operate with significant creativity and ambiguity. This associate will represent Mars in external forums for climate issues on these topics including with suppliers, peers, and NGOs.

What are we looking for?

• Note: May differ from the current job holder’s own skills and experience.

  1. Education & Professional Qualification

  • BS in business, engineering, science or other field grounded in management of quantitative information, including experience with marketing, finance, digital technology, or related functions

  • Preferred qualification: a further degree focused on sustainability or environmental management or equivalent experience

  2. Knowledge/Experience

  • 7+ years of relevant experience with direct exposure to corporate sustainability strategy implementation

  • Demonstrated experience delivering or contributing to corporate GHG reduction programs, with experience in climate smart agriculture, technology or services preferred

  • Strong working knowledge of corporate GHG accounting including spend-based accounting

  • Strong English language communication and report writing skills covering both technical and narrative information.

  • Influencing and communication skills; ability to communicate complex scientific information and rationales on environmental sustainability to individuals from other disciplines and to non-technical individuals. Fluency in English is essential

  • Comfortable working across complex, global, cross-functional teams with high levels of collaboration and matrixed decision-making.

  • Self-directed, hands-on contributor able to operate in a fast-paced, evolving environment.

  • Self-motivated and ability to perform assigned duties independently without direct supervision (most interaction, including interaction with direct manager is likely to be remote)

  3. Physical and/or mental requirements

  • Travel may be required including international travel (<25%)

What will be your key responsibilities?

• Climate Accounting and Policy

  • Lead thinking as internal expert on spend-based accounting

  • Develop guidance and policies

  • Identify and propose opportunities to improve spend-based accounting or transition to activity-based accounting

  • Collaborate with GHG accounting team and digital technology team to ensure effective plans for annual accounting and development and improvement of analytical tools

  • Support on other sustainability-related analytical, accounting, and policy projects as needed

  
  Project and program leadership

  • Create and lead steering committees and working groups for relevant business units and functions

  • Create aligned annual work plans across Marketing, Indirects, and Digital Technology and research mitigation strategies

  • Drive governance and alignment across stakeholders to ensure consistent sustainability standards and decision-making across global segments.

  • Partner with cross-functional teams (e.g., Marketing, Procurement, Finance, Sustainable Sourcing, Supply Chain) and Segment teams (Pet Care, Veterinary, Snacking, Corporate and Global Services) to ensure end-to-end alignment on key design decisions and enablement of sustainability capabilities.

  • Partner to develop change management strategies inclusive of varying avenues of communications depending on the audience and topic.

  • Liaise with key stakeholders to ensure alignment and support for strategies

  • Lead sustainability focused workshops and design sessions as required.

  • Manage ongoing deployment and updates to Mars Climate School

  • Manage external providers of relevant analytical services to Mars

  Mitigation Plans and Strategies

  • Lead thinking as internal expert on relevant mitigation strategies

  • Create analysis of potential mitigation strategies and identify optimal glidepath for implementation

  • Lead specific projects to deliver capability improvements or mitigations

  • Engage suppliers in collaboration with business

  • Develop and deploy corporate policies, where needed

  External engagement

  • Monitor external developments (standards, service providers, etc) related to spend-based accounting and market-based mitigations

  • Participate and influence key external collaborative groups on related topics

  • Track and benchmark peer and competitor actions and capabilities

What can you expect from Mars?

• Work with 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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The base pay range for this position at commencement of employment is between the range listed below, however, base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including but not limited to job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position will include variable pay, medical and dental benefits, participation in 401k plan, and paid time off benefits. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an applicant receives an offer of employment.