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.

• 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