at Mars, Incorporated in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Job Description:
In recent years, the pace of acquisitions at Mars has been accelerating in support of growing the size of the business within the next decade. We have also seen a consistent pace of divestiture activity as Mars looks to evolve its portfolio. The pace of acquisition integration and the variety of approaches and tools needed is increasing. As a result, we have established a dedicated, expert team housed within Mars Global Services to lead acquisition integration and divestiture preparation initiatives across the Mars business segments. This role is a key member of that Integration Management Team.
What are we looking for?
- Bachelor's Degree in a relevant area (e.g. Business Management / Finance / IT)
- Desired: Other Business Change professional certifications such as MoP, PROSCI, Agile or Certified at Practitioner level in either PMP, PRINCE2 or MSP
- Essential: 10+ years of professional experience in integration, corporate development, private equity or related field with prior experience in mergers, acquisitions and divestitures
- Essential: 5+ years of experience in project management roles, with experience in planning, managing and delivering complex projects at a cross-functional or enterprise-wide level
- Essential: Demonstrable understanding of business processes and change management
- Essential: Understanding of financial management processes
Scope
- Quickly earns confidence and trust of sponsors and key stakeholders, across a variety of functional areas
- Communicates effectively at all levels of the organization (Comfort Around Higher Management) with clarity and precision while appropriately tailoring messaging to each audience (both written and verbal)
- Mobilizes and motivates others, while driving direction and approach, providing thought partnership to challenge and influence initiative outcomes
- Thinks outside the box on designing new strategies and approaches, able to translate market leading integration approaches not already used into adoption
- Successfully navigates complex matrix organizations (Organizational Agility)
- Effectively works on cross-functional teams with minimal oversite, flexing interpersonal style to work effectively with a diversity of stakeholders
- Addresses complex problems efficiently, anticipates issues, and evaluate possible solutions
- Operates effectively with limited information and a high degree of ambiguity
- Manages multiple competing priorities often with tight timing expectations
- Plans, manages and executes with quality and precision. Unafraid to get into the details
- Removes barriers to delivery, and works effectively under pressure
- Drives the sharing of best practice to challenge and improve ways of working
- Learns from experiences, and applies that learning to perform successfully in future projects
What will be your key responsibilities?
- Provide overall coordination and expert guidance to the segment and each functional work stream (S&F, P&O, IT, Commercial, Legal, Supply, etc.) involved in the integration of an acquisition or divestiture
- Engage with senior stakeholders (e.g., segment leadership, corporate functional leads, segment and corporate regional leadership, MGS) and external parties to ensure we have an aligned integration approach, identify issues and risks, suggest paths to resolution, and assist in resolving
- Ensure the integration approach/principles are aligned, documented and shared with key stakeholders
- Stand up the appropriate team and ensure proper governance and ways of working are established...
Equal Opportunity Employer - minorities/females/veterans/individuals with disabilities/sexual orientation/gender identity
