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Mars

Global confectionery, food, and petcare company

Senior Solution Engineer

Solution EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timePolandNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree is required.
  • At least 7 years of solution engineering experience focused on cross-platform data and analytics solutions.
  • Understanding of digital platforms, data pipelines, and analytics in an enterprise environment.
  • Ability to engage meaningfully in solution design discussions, with technical fluency rather than coding.
  • An analytical mindset with attention to data quality, controls, and traceability.
  • Experience in the system integration lifecycle, including system design and deployment, systems integration, data migration, and data model design.
  • A proven track record of leading complex, cross-functional initiatives without formal line authority.
  • Ability to remain flexible and resilient under pressure and to work comfortably with ambiguity in a fast-moving portfolio of activity.
  • Familiarity with sustainability management platforms and tools, including environmental impact assessment, carbon accounting, or regulatory compliance.
  • Awareness of sustainability regulatory compliance.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a senior trusted advisor to Corporate stakeholders on digital enablement strategy.
  • Translate sustainability ambition, regulatory direction, and emerging risks into coherent digital roadmaps.
  • Represent Corporate Technology in senior sustainability forums and cross-functional leadership discussions.
  • Provide functional leadership and direction to Solution Engineer roles, setting standards for effective corporate technology partnering.
  • Develop an understanding of Mars sustainability priorities, including climate, packaging, nature, and human rights topics.
  • Translate complex sustainability needs, such as greenhouse gas accounting, regulatory disclosures, supply chain data, and impact transparency, into clear, outcome-based problem statements.
  • Challenge unclear or solution-led requests to ensure focus on business value, regulatory readiness, and scalability.
  • Work with key business stakeholders to create proof-of-concept solutions using basic coding and Power BI.
  • Guide prioritization decisions across sustainability initiatives based on risk, value, and delivery feasibility.
  • Help shift stakeholders from tool requests toward outcome-based sustainability solutions.
  • Support prioritization by assessing regulatory urgency, business impact, feasibility, and delivery complexity.
  • Ensure requirements are clearly understood by delivery teams and aligned to enterprise standards.
  • Contribute to solution design for sustainability platforms and tools, such as emissions calculation, data ingestion, reporting, and analytics.
  • Collaborate with architects, data engineers, and vendors to shape fit-for-purpose, scalable solutions.
  • Define and recommend solution patterns that ensure data quality, auditability, traceability, and compliance.
  • Review and challenge solution designs to ensure alignment with sustainability intent and enterprise architecture.
  • Ensure designs are delivery-ready and clearly understood by the teams executing the work.
  • Translate high-level designs into delivery-ready artifacts, including epics, features, and acceptance criteria.
  • Coach and mentor Solution Engineers, strengthening sustainability translation capability.
  • Establish and reinforce best practices, templates, and ways of working for sustainability enablement.
  • Support capability building across Corporate Technology and Sustainability teams.
  • Contribute to communities of practice and cross-domain learning.

Desired Qualifications

  • PMI or PRINCE certifications, such as PMP, PgMP, PfMP, or PRINCE2.
  • Programming or scripting experience.
  • Familiarity with automation and low-code/no-code platforms, such as ServiceNow, Automation Anywhere, Power Automate, and Power Apps.

About the Company

Mars

Global confectionery, food, and petcare company

Mars makes confectionery, food, and petcare products and also operates pet health services through networks like Banfield, VCA, BluePearl, and Royal Canin. Its products are marketed under familiar brands such as M&M’s, Snickers, Milky Way, Skittles, Dove, Orbit, Pedigree, Royal Canin, Whiskas, and Cocoavia, sold globally to consumers and pet owners. The company differs from competitors by combining a broad, diversified portfolio with a global, family-owned structure guided by the Mars Principles (Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency, Freedom), which drives its operations and partnerships. Mars aims to help communities prosper and to grow its business while improving social and environmental outcomes, using its scale to support responsible practices across the world.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
Debt Financing
Total funding
$27B
Headquarters
McLean, VA
Founded
1911

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