Corporate Affairs Director- Commercial

ENGINEERINGUK; East Hampshire, Slough; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dynamic Director for Corporate Affairs to lead communications and engagement within a global shared services environment. This role requires strong collaboration and change management skills to influence stakeholders and drive transformation initiatives. You will work closely with senior leaders, ensuring effective communication strategies that engage associates and support critical programs. Join a purpose-driven company that values diversity and offers best-in-class learning opportunities. If you're passionate about driving change through high-quality communications, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Best-in-class learning and development support

Access to in-house Mars University

Industry competitive salary

Company bonus

Qualifications

• Strong collaboration skills with senior leaders and ability to influence stakeholders.
• Experience in change management and transformation initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Drive communications activities for MGS Commercial, focusing on indirect buying services.
• Partner with leaders on critical communications and evaluate change management strategies.

Skills

Collaboration Skills

Change Management

Stakeholder Influence

Organizational Agility

Global Experience

Job description

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Employer: Mars
Location: Slough, Berkshire, United Kingdom
Salary: Competitive
Closing date: 3 May 2025
Sector: Sales and Business Development
Role: Director
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time

Job Description:
The Corporate Affairs (CA) team of Mars Global Services (MGS) leads the communications and engagement activities of the shared services group within Mars, Incorporated. The global CA team supports the Mars Global Services objective to make work easier across Mars. The MGS Commercial group comprises 400 Associates and 20,000 vendors across Mars worldwide. Traditionally referred to as procurement, our Commercial service line has several diverse areas of accountability.

What are we looking for?

• You will have strong collaboration skills, comfort with senior leaders, and an ability to influence a variety of stakeholders.
• You will have worked within owning and implementing change management or transformation previously. A critical responsibility will be to partner with the change management leads of key MGS Commercial deployments, drive development of their communications strategies and, where possible, support roll out and measurement of those initiatives.
• You will be results driven and be comfortable with ambiguity and organizational agility.
• You will have worked with multiple locations and ideally have global experience/exposure.

What will be your key responsibilities?

• You will have energy and passion for driving change through high quality communications. You will be adept working in a global, multi-functional environment.
• You will drive communications activities exclusively for MGS Commercial, the team that leads indirect buying services, Commercial services operations, and the Commercial centre of excellence for all business units across Mars.
• You will be a thought leader, project manager, and strategic communicator capable of executing the following responsibilities:
• Partnering with the Global VP of MGS Commercial and her direct reports on critical communications to leaders of Mars.
• Evaluate the change management strategies for critical programs being deployed by MGS Commercial and determining the right resource to drive communications.
• Lead and drive overall narrative, storytelling, and communications cadence for the Service line both internally and externally.
• You will develop and execute communications that drive engagement of MGS Commercial Associates.
• You will focus intensely on major transformation initiatives. It will include development of unifying periodic communications to support.

The CA Director will report to the VP for Corporate Affairs and have a dotted line reporting relationship to the VP of MGS Commercial and work closely with her team.

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.

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.