Director P&O Corporate Functions

Mars (New); Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 154,000 - 211,000; Full time

Job summary

Mars seeks a P&O Director to partner with senior leaders across Finance, Corporate Affairs, Enterprise Deployment, and Legal. This role reports to the SVP of People & Organization and drives talent, organization, and capability strategies to support the Mars North America operating model.

In a post-integration environment, this leader moves quickly to accelerate effectiveness, harmonize culture, and optimize structures for value creation, while ensuring an inclusive, high-performance environment

Qualifications

• 8–10 years progressive HR experience
• Experience supporting corporate/shared services or enterprise-level functions
• Bachelor's degree required; Master's preferred

Responsibilities

• Partner with senior leaders to shape functional people strategies.
• Design and align structures to support the regional operating model.
• Provide strategic coaching to leaders to enhance performance and decision-making.
• Drive change, culture and inclusion across matrixed teams.

Skills

Transformation & Change Management

Strategic Organizational Design

Business & Financial Acumen

Executive Coaching & Influence

Matrix Navigation

Education

Bachelor's degree in HR or Business Administration

Job description

Job Description: The P&O Director, Corporate Functions operates as the lead strategic business partner to the senior leaders of MSNA's steering and enablement functions: Finance, Corporate Affairs, Enterprise Deployment, and Legal. Reporting directly to the SVP of People & Organization (P&O), this role is responsible for shaping and executing the talent, organization, and capability strategies that allow these functions to effectively support, safeguard, and accelerate the MSNA Operating Model. In a post integration environment, this role requires a leader who can operate with high urgency to accelerate organizational effectiveness, drive cultural harmonization, and optimize structures to fully realize value creation.

Key Accountabilities

Strategic Business Partnering & Organization Effectiveness

• Partner with leaders to shape business priorities into robust, functional people strategies.
• Design, optimize, and align functional structures to seamlessly support the needs of the regional operating model.
• Provide strategic coaching to functional leaders, enhancing leadership team performance, functional capability, and collaborative decision-making across matrixed boundaries.

Talent Strategy & Strategic Workforce Planning

• Lead the talent agenda, driving succession planning, high-potential identification, and critical capability building.
• Identify capability gaps and partner with Centers of Expertise (CoEs) to deploy targeted development and recruitment strategies.
• Ensure a healthy, diverse, and inclusive talent pipeline.

Culture, Engagement & Associate Experience

• Champion a high-performance, values-driven culture rooted in The Five Principles.
• Integrate regional Associate Experience priorities into functional touchpoints, embedding culture and inclusive leadership.

Reports to: SVP, People & Organization (P&O), Mars Snacking North America

Direct Reports: None (highly influential individual contributor role)

Key Interfaces: Key North America LT members MSNA POLT Functional CoEs

Qualifications & Key Capabilities

• Transformation & Change Management: Proven expertise in leading organizations through change or strategic alignment.
• Strategic Organizational Design: High-altitude HR capability with proven experience aligning capabilities to business needs.
• Business & Financial Acumen: Understanding of the operational and financial levers of a major regional consumer goods business.
• Executive Coaching & Influence: Exceptional communication skills with the capability to challenge, coach, and influence senior leaders constructively.
• Matrix Navigation: Proven agility in navigating and simplifying complex matrix and shared capability networks.

Education & Experience

Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field (Master's preferred); minimum of 8-10 years of progressive HR experience, with significant tenure as an HR Business Partner supporting corporate, shared services, or enterprise-level functions.

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 company bonus.

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.

The pay range shown is applicable to all US locations listed within the job posting: USD 153,600.00 - USD 211,200.00

Mars is a family-owned business with more than $35 billion in global sales. We produce some of the world's best-loved brands: M&M's®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, MILKY WAY®, DOVE®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, WHISKAS®, EXTRA®, ORBIT®, 5™, SKITTLES®, BEN'S ORIGINAL®, and COCOAVIA®. Alongside our consumer brands, we proudly take care of half of the world's pets through our nutrition, health and services businesses such as Banfield Pet Hospitals™, BluePearl®, Linnaeus, AniCura, VCA™ and Pet Partners™. Headquartered in McLean, VA, Mars operates in more than 80 countries. The Mars Five Principles - Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom - inspire our 140,000 Associates into taking action every day towards creating the world we want tomorrow.