Enterprise Growth Partnerships Leader: Strategy & AI Enablement

Mars; Chicago (IL); Vor Ort; USD 193.000 - 265.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Mars is seeking a Sr Director, Enterprise Growth Partnership Strategy & Enablement to orchestrate the Enterprise Growth Partnership strategy across Mars Marketing Leadership Council. You will align partners, agencies, platforms and AI-enabled marketing initiatives, driving scalable value while ensuring responsible governance.

This senior role leads cross-functional collaboration with Digital Technologies, Data & Analytics, Legal/Privacy, Procurement and agency partners to shape use cases,

Qualifikationen

• 10+ years in Digital Marketing, Media, Partnerships, Marketing Transformation, and emerging AI-enabled marketing capabilities
• Experience leading complex project leadership in large-scale, matrixed organizations
• Ability to translate between business and technical stakeholders and across teams with competing priorities

Aufgaben

• Lead and orchestrate the Joint Business Partnerships program for the Mars Inc enterprise, acting as the program facilitator and escalation point for Mars brands, segments, agencies, platforms, and strategic business partners
• Design and drive a strategic, productive, accountable and effectively measured Top to Top relationship between the MMLC and our Top tier Enterprise Growth JBP partners (eg Google, Amazon, Disney and others TBC)
• Drive the continued evolution from traditional JBP ways of working to a more integrated One Mars Planning model, aligning enterprise priorities, partner and internal technology capabilities, investment opportunities, governance expectations, and value creation plans
• Serve as the central connector across segments, capabilities, Commercial, Procurement, Digital Technologies, agency partners, and global platforms to align priorities, unlock synergies, resolve escalations, and maintain delivery momentum
• Owns the Growth Marketing AI agenda, delivered through Partnerships: define the business-led enterprise marketing AI agenda, including priority use cases, value pools, success measures, roadmap priorities, capability gaps, adoption model, and partner activation approach across segments and global marketing capabilities
• Owns adoption and scaling: creates the operating model for Partnership led/enabled marketing AI adoption, including playbooks, use-case prioritisation, test-and-learn approaches, communities of practice, training assets, and mechanisms to scale approved AI-enabled ways of working across the enterprise
• Partners with expert functions: works closely with Digital Technologies, Data & Analytics, Responsible Marketing, Legal/Privacy, Procurement, segment marketing teams, agency partners, platform partners, and the AI Governance SteerCo to ensure marketing the above priorities are technically feasible, data-enabled, responsibly governed, legally compliant, commercially valuable, and aligned to enterprise standards
• Influences the enterprise AI agenda: represents marketing needs and opportunities in cross-functional AI forums, surfacing adoption barriers, shaping scalable use cases, connecting segment requirements, and ensuring marketing priorities are reflected in the broader Mars AI roadmap
• Does not own: Enterprise AI governance, technology architecture, data strategy, data standards, platform selection, legal/privacy approval, risk review, responsible AI policy, or formal AI approval frameworks; these accountabilities remain with the relevant enterprise functions

Kenntnisse

Strategic Project Management

Collaboration

Partnership Expertise

Agency & SOW Management

AI and Technology Fluency

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business Administration, Media Communications, or related field

Jobbeschreibung

Mars is seeking a Sr Director, Enterprise Growth Partnership Strategy & Enablement to orchestrate the Enterprise Growth Partnership strategy across Mars Marketing Leadership Council. You will align partners, agencies, platforms and AI-enabled marketing initiatives, driving scalable value while ensuring responsible governance.

This senior role leads cross-functional collaboration with Digital Technologies, Data & Analytics, Legal/Privacy, Procurement and agency partners to shape use cases,