Climate Sr. Manager
Climate Sr. Manager
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Job Description
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 VPs and CMOs 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 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 holders 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 were 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 total compensation package for this position will include variable pay medical and dental benefits participation in 401k plan and paid time off of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an applicant receives an offer of employment.
The pay range shown is applicable to all locations listed within the job posting:USD 152142.00 - USD 209202.00Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full-Time
