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Mars

Global confectionery, food, and petcare company

Lead Supply Chain Management - Supply Chain Management, Functional Solutions

Supply Chain ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeChicago, IL, USA$119k - $163.7kRemote

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 8 years of progressive enterprise ERP experience specializing in Supply Chain Management, Procure-to-Pay, and Warehouse Management, including experience mentoring and leading functional analysts.
  • Extensive hands-on experience architecting, delivering, and leading SAP S/4HANA enterprise solutions; SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud experience is a strong plus.
  • In-depth functional mastery of operational purchasing, subcontracting, three-way matching, and Advanced or Extended Warehouse Management.
  • Experience integrating SAP ERP with external third-party logistics warehouse and transportation management partners and governing logistics EDI message sets (943, 944, 940, 945, 947, 846).
  • At least 5 years of experience in consumer packaged goods or food and beverage environments, including batch management, FEFO shelf-life allocation, co-manufacturing, cold chain, and lot traceability.
  • Practical experience using SAP Activate, SAP Cloud ALM, Jira, Monday.com, or Smartsheet, combined with AI agent and Situation Handling exception automation.
  • A bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Operations Management, Information Systems, Business Administration, or a related field.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as enterprise process owner and functional authority for supply chain execution, procurement, inventory, and warehousing systems across Mars Snacking Accelerator.
  • Steer the supply chain management capability roadmap.
  • Partner with Procurement, Logistics, and Plant Warehousing leaders to translate operational goals into ERP capabilities.
  • Architect end-to-end Procure-to-Pay workflows, including purchase orders, subcontracting or co-manufacturing, and automated three-way invoice matching, and enforce a standard-first Clean Core architecture.
  • Drive functional design for inventory management and advanced warehousing, establishing standardized strategies for inbound staging, putaway, wave picking, cycle counting, and physical inventory.
  • Own functional integration between SAP S/4HANA and external third-party logistics warehouse and carrier platforms.
  • Govern logistics EDI/B2B transaction flows for messages 943, 944, 940, 945, 947, and 846.
  • Enforce SAP batch management rules, First-Expired, First-Out picking logic, and shelf-life tracking for audit-ready lot traceability aligned with FDA, FSMA, and Mars Quality & Food Safety standards.
  • Directly line-manage, lead, mentor, and oversee the SCM/SCP Functional Analyst; assign analyst and partner resources to initiatives based on project complexity and individual strengths.
  • Deliver projects using SAP Activate, SAP Cloud ALM, Jira, Monday.com, and Smartsheet.
  • Drive adoption of AI agents and SAP Situation Handling as a strategy for resolving supply chain exceptions.
  • Lead bi-annual cloud regression testing and manage application management services vendors against service-level agreement and key performance indicator metrics.

Desired Qualifications

  • A master's degree in Supply Chain Management or an MBA.
  • SAP S/4HANA Cloud Sourcing & Procurement, Warehouse Management, or SAP Activate certification.
  • Experience with SAP Business Technology Platform or integrated supply chain planning tools such as SAP IBP, Blue Yonder, or Kinaxis.

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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