Global HR Director

What will be your key responsibilities?

1. Drive Business Strategy & Change Management

• Partner with global Sales and Marketing leaders to ensure people strategy aligns with business priorities and anticipate talent implications of key decisions.

• Co-design organizational structures to meet growth objectives, focusing on effectiveness, job clarity, and cost control.

• Coach leaders on change management, support global team setups across countries, and apply our P&O operating model across the full employee lifecycle.

• Own and lead headcount governance for Sales/Marketing (Demand), including approval tracking, role management, data accuracy in Workday, and visibility on workforce status.

2. Empower Line Managers within the HR Operating Model

• Support line managers in delivering on their people agendas by leveraging the Mars HR model, including Early Careers, Talent Acquisition, Compensation & Benefits, Learning, Employee Relations, and more.

• Enable cross-country talent decisions in partnership with local HR teams.

• Build strong relationships with HR colleagues in France and key global markets; lead the onboarding of line managers into our HR processes and tools.

• Support HR cycles such as goal setting, annual appraisals, employee engagement surveys, and performance plans.

• Guide non-French managers in navigating French labor law, and partner with Employee Relations to manage interactions with local Works Councils.

3. Shape and Foster Culture

• Act as a role model for the Mars Five Principles and our Associate Concept, onboarding leaders into our culture and ways of working.

• Support global Sales/Marketing leaders in becoming culture ambassadors and ensure a healthy, inclusive work environment.

• Promote inclusion across a highly diverse team of 30+ nationalities and contribute to the development of a thriving international campus in the south of France.

• Facilitate or coach teams using our High Performing Collaboration (HPC) framework and follow up on culture and performance action plans.

4. Talent Strategy for Sales & Marketing (Global Demand)

• Partner with regional HR leads and the global Talent team to lead key talent processes (succession planning, development reviews, talent discussions).

• Build a diverse, future-fit talent pipeline across global and regional levels, with a focus on growing talent in the South of France.

• Lead the “Talent @ One Demand Forum”, a 18-member leadership group supporting aligned talent decisions and unlocking next career moves.

5. Cross-Functional Collaboration, Thought Partnership & Coaching

• As part of the Global HR Leadership Team, provide strategic input into critical people and business decisions.

• Collaborate with Finance partners to ensure alignment on people-related governance (headcount, cost control, talent investment).

• Work closely with other HR leaders based on-site on topics such as manager capability building, policy evolution, audits, early careers strategy, compensation alignment, and more.

What can you expect from Mars?

• At Mars, we believe in a relationship of mutual trust, dignity and respect between our company and Associates that is more meaningful than the standard employer/employee relationship.

• As Associates, we can expect to be respected, supported and valued as individuals, to be treated fairly and equitably.

• You will work in a multicultural environment (more than 40 nationalities) and where your dog will be welcomed by more than 100 other Associates’ dogs at the office! 

• You will work in a unique campus, which gathers more than 800 Associates working for: the international HQ, the French subsidiary, two laboratories, a kennel and a cattery with more than 200 cats & dogs, and finally the most important factory of the Royal Canin group 

• A unique and ideal work environment to become the leader in health through nutrition for cats and dogs!

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