At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead global packaging transformation initiatives and drive significant cost savings.
- Company: Join Mars, a purpose-driven company focused on innovation and sustainability.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, bonus, and access to Mars University for continuous learning.
- Other info: Work with diverse teams and enjoy a supportive environment for personal growth.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by optimising packaging strategies and driving cross-segment collaboration.
- Qualifications: Experience in supplier management and a passion for delivering business value.
The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 £ per year.
The Global Packaging Transformation Workstream Lead is accountable for defining, delivering, and embedding key strategic shifts across the packaging portfolio, with primary focus on:
- Transitioning Paper packaging to performance-based specifications
- Leading the business case for outsourcing of flexible bag-making operations
- Exploring and establishing upstream buying strategies and models for flexibles & paper
The role is accountable for delivering a validated pipeline of ~$10M in savings across these initiatives, ensuring value is clearly identified, tracked, and realised. A critical component of the role is ensuring these transformations are aligned cross-segment across Mars Pet Nutrition, Royal Canin and Mars Snacking in Europe and North America, driving harmonisation, scale benefits, and consistency in supplier engagement and operating models.
Key Accountabilities
- Workstream Leadership
- Lead the end-to-end delivery of global packaging transformation initiatives across Paper and Flexible materials.
- Define strategy in synch with Sourcing managers (seg / OE / Central), scope, roadmap, and success measures for:
- Performance-based specification deployment
- Flexible bag-making outsourcing model
- Upstream sourcing strategies
- Own and deliver a savings pipeline of ~$10M, with clear milestones, accountability, and tracking mechanisms.
- Ensure cross-segment alignment with Royal Canin & Mars Snacking (EU & NA) to maximise scale, leverage, and standardisation opportunities.
- Manage dependencies, risks, and resources across a complex, multi-segment environment.
- Business Capability Ownership
- Own the future-state vision for:
- Paper specification governance and performance frameworks
- Flexible packaging bag making outsourcing and supplier operating models
- Upstream buying and supplier integration
- Drive common approaches and standards across segments, ensuring alignment where value can be unlocked.
- Ensure capabilities are designed to sustain and expand savings delivery over time.
- Act as the primary business decision-maker for the workstream.
- Packaging Strategy Execution
- Drive the shift to performance-based specifications in Paper, unlocking cost optimisation, simplification, and innovation.
- Lead the transition to an outsourced bag-making model for Flexibles, capturing make-to-buy efficiencies and supplier scale.
- Develop and implement upstream buying strategies, leveraging cross-segment scale in Europe and North America.
- Translate all initiatives into quantified financial benefits, feeding into the $10M savings pipeline.
- Cross-Functional Delivery Partnership
- Partner with Procurement, R&D, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Quality, and Finance teams across Pet Nutrition and Mars Snacking.
- Ensure strong financial governance and validation of savings with Finance.
- Align digital and analytics capabilities to track:
- Specification-driven savings
- Supplier cost performance
- End-to-end value delivery
- Build strong relationships across Pet Nutrition and Mars Snacking leadership teams in EU and NA.
- Act as a key integrator across segments, ensuring alignment on value delivery priorities.
- Drive senior-level alignment on trade-offs between cost, service, resilience, and innovation.
- Ensure successful adoption of new models across both segments and regions.
- Embed cost-conscious decision-making and ownership of savings at all levels.
- Remove barriers to adoption that may impact value delivery.
- Define, track, and report clear financial benefits, ensuring delivery of the ~$10M savings target.
- Establish robust governance to validate and sustain savings over time.
- Unlock cross-segment synergies and scale advantages.
- Continuously identify additional value opportunities beyond the initial pipeline.
Key Outcomes
- Delivery of a $10M validated savings pipeline
- Successful rollout of performance-based specifications in Paper
- Effective outsourcing of flexible bag-making operations
- Strong upstream sourcing strategies with measurable impact
- High degree of alignment with Mars Snacking in EU and NA
- Sustainable improvements in cost, agility, and supplier performance
What are we looking for?
- Proven knowledge and practical experience with supplier/customer management.
- A passion for driving value for our business by leveraging various sourcing channels.
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.
- A strong focus on learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
- An industry-competitive salary and benefits package, including a company bonus.
Mars is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable adjustments for individuals with disabilities, long-term health conditions, or who are neurodiverse during the application and recruitment process.
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