Full-Time

Senior Manager Global Workforce & Organizational Effectiveness Intelligence

Deadline 8/27/26
Mars

Mars

10,001+ employees

Global confectionery, food, and petcare company

Compensation Overview

$153.6k - $211.2k/yr

+ Company bonus + Variable pay

McLean, VA, USA

Hybrid

Hybrid work arrangement in McLean, Virginia.

Bachelor's, Master's

Category
People & HR (1)
Required Skills
Power BI
Data Visualization
Workday HRIS
SQL
Tableau
Data Governance
Anaplan
Excel/Numbers/Sheets

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Requirements
  • A bachelor's degree is required; a master's degree in a relevant field is preferred.
  • At least 8 years of experience across strategic workforce planning, organizational design or operating models, and organizational effectiveness analytics is required.
  • At least 6 years of management consulting experience advising large, complex organizations on organizational effectiveness, operating models, and workforce planning, or at least 6 years of comparable in-house experience at a global, multi-business-unit company.
  • At least 6 years of experience with Workday and workforce planning and organizational effectiveness tools such as Orgvue, Visier, Workday Adaptive, and Anaplan, including functional proficiency and strategic command of how organizational data is represented and modeled.
  • Deep functional expertise in organizational effectiveness and strategic workforce planning frameworks, metrics, and benchmarks, including leading practices, operational complexities, and risks.
  • Proven experience establishing enterprise-level workforce and organizational effectiveness metrics for large organizations and advising on the integration of people and operations, human resources, and finance metrics.
  • Advanced Microsoft Excel and data visualization capabilities using Power BI or Tableau for ad hoc modeling, data blending, and scenario exploration.
  • Proven expertise translating abstract business questions into structured workforce planning and organizational effectiveness analytical plans and delivering insights that influence executive decisions.
  • Ability to translate between senior people and operations, human resources, finance, and commercial leaders and align stakeholder groups around the strategic implications of workforce data.
  • Exposure to the impact of Artificial Intelligence on strategic workforce planning and organizational effectiveness, including AI-driven metrics, skills-based organization design, and measuring AI-human productivity.
  • Working knowledge of data querying concepts such as SQL and data architecture paradigms such as data lakes to partner effectively with human resources technical teams.
Responsibilities
  • Assist with designing and leading the Center of Excellence workforce intelligence agenda to enable workforce planning and monitor organizational health, productivity, and effectiveness.
  • Advise on workforce planning and organizational effectiveness benchmarks and assist with developing targets.
  • Provide thought leadership on the impact of Artificial Intelligence transformation on workforce planning and organizational effectiveness metrics.
  • Translate ambiguous executive workforce planning and organizational effectiveness questions into hypotheses and structured analysis.
  • Develop and deliver presentations to senior leadership articulating workforce and organizational effectiveness trends, risks, and opportunities to influence data-driven decisions.
  • Design and conduct workforce planning and organizational effectiveness analyses by synthesizing people and operations, human resources, financial, commercial, and external data to identify insights and risks.
  • Monitor organizational health, complexity, and productivity and proactively identify and investigate anomalies.
  • Lead and enhance enterprise headcount reporting, including integration with finance and commercial teams.
  • Analyze the impact of operating model changes and large-scale transformations on organizational effectiveness.
  • Serve as the Center of Excellence lead consultant on time-sensitive executive inquiries and deliver data-driven, executive-level insights.
  • Provide data-backed insights on future workforce trends, conduct workforce risk analysis, and support capability forecasting.
  • Lead the development, definition, and consistent application of enterprise workforce planning and organizational effectiveness metrics.
  • Partner with stakeholders to integrate metrics into core strategy, financial planning, and risk management processes.
  • Serve as a functional workforce planning and organizational effectiveness analytics expert on enterprise people data governance, technology, and analytics initiatives.
  • Generate enterprise functional requirements for workforce intelligence and organizational design tools such as Orgvue and Workday Adaptive Planning.
  • Ensure enterprise workforce planning and organizational effectiveness tools, including Workday reports and Orgvue models, and dashboards are strategically relevant and aligned with leading practices.
Desired Qualifications
  • A master's degree in a relevant field such as I/O Psychology, MBA, HR, or Business Analytics.

Mars, Incorporated makes and sells a wide range of food, confectionery, and petcare products worldwide, with brands like M&M’s, Snickers, Milky Way, Dove, Orbit, Skittles, Pedigree, and Royal Canin, and it also operates pet health services through networks such as AniCura, Banfield, BluePearl, and VCA. Its products come from integrated manufacturing and distribution systems, delivering everyday treats and meals as well as veterinary care through a global network of partners. Mars differentiates itself through its diversified portfolio, long family ownership, and the Mars Five Principles—Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency, and Freedom—that guide decisions and actions. The company aims to help communities prosper and improve social and environmental outcomes while growing its business and scale.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

Debt Financing

Total Funding

$27B

Headquarters

McLean, Virginia

Founded

1911

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What believers are saying

  • Mars Snacking is adding 600 Chicago jobs and investing $100 million through 2027.
  • Christina Ruggiero’s July 2026 appointment accelerates North American pet nutrition innovation.
  • Google Cloud rollout through 2026 should compress research, sales, and factory-diagnostics cycles.

What critics are saying

  • Nature’s Bakery’s Hazelwood plant closes in September 2027, eliminating 345 jobs.
  • Mars Wrigley cuts 307 Newark roles and exits New Jersey by mid-October.
  • A botched Kellanova integration by 2027 destroys $36 billion of acquired brand value.

What makes Mars unique

  • Mars’s family ownership enables decade-long bets, not quarterly earnings theater.
  • Kellanova added Pringles, Cheez-It, and Pop-Tarts, deepening Mars Snacking’s shelf power.
  • Gemini Enterprise gives Mars a companywide AI operating system across 170,000 associates.

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6 month growth

21%

1 year growth

21%

2 year growth

21%
PR Newswire
Jul 21st, 2026
Mars appoints Christina Ruggiero as North America president for pet nutrition division

Mars has appointed Christina Ruggiero as Regional President of its Pet Nutrition Division for North America, effective 1 July. She will oversee brands including Pedigree, Iams, Sheba, Cesar, Greenies, Temptations and Nutro across the United States and Canada. Ruggiero joins from Coca-Cola, where she served as President of the Global Nutrition Category, leading a $9 billion portfolio that included Minute Maid, Simply and Fairlife. She previously spent nearly four years in India as CEO of Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages, where she doubled the company's net worth. In her new role, Ruggiero will focus on science-backed innovation, omnichannel growth and digital acceleration. Mars operates a $65 billion business with approximately 170,000 associates worldwide.

Fox Business
Jul 20th, 2026
Mars Wrigley to lay off 307 workers, relocate US headquarters from New Jersey to Chicago

Mars Wrigley will lay off 307 workers and relocate its US headquarters from Newark, New Jersey, to Chicago by mid-October. The candymaker, which produces M&M's, Snickers, Twix and Skittles, filed a WARN notice with New Jersey signalling the job cuts will end the company's presence in Newark. The move follows a $100 million investment to expand Mars Wrigley's Chicago facilities, where its global headquarters is now based. The company will continue operating its manufacturing facility in Hackettstown, New Jersey. The New Jersey Business & Industry Association warned the departure signals the state needs to improve its business climate. New Jersey has lost over 9,700 jobs through WARN notices this year, with Samsung and ExxonMobil also announcing recent departures.

Yahoo Finance
Jul 8th, 2026
Mars to close Nature's Bakery plant in Missouri, 345 jobs at risk

Mars-owned snacks brand Nature's Bakery is permanently closing its manufacturing plant in Hazelwood, Missouri. Production will shift to other facilities, with the site expected to remain operational until a full shutdown in September 2027. According to a local government filing, 130 employees will leave on 11 September, followed by 215 more in February 2027. All affected staff have been notified and can seek alternative positions within Nature's Bakery or Mars. In January 2024, Mars announced a $237m investment in a new Nature's Bakery factory in Salt Lake City, Utah. Mars acquired Nature's Bakery in 2020 through its Kind snacking business and recently completed a $35.9bn acquisition of Kellanova in December.

International Confectionery
Jul 2nd, 2026
Mars awards $1.7M to support young scientists at Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings

Mars, Incorporated is renewing its partnership with the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings through a three-year, €1.5 million grant from the Mars Impact Fund. The funding will support fellowships for 30 young scientists annually to attend the meetings, which bring together Nobel Laureates and emerging researchers. Mars has partnered with the Meetings since 2007, but this marks the first collaboration through its Impact Fund, launched in early 2026. The grant aims to strengthen access for scientists who otherwise couldn't participate and support programming that fosters dialogue and learning. The partnership was celebrated at the 75th annual Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings in Germany, where Mars hosted events focused on interdisciplinary science. Michelle Grogg, Executive Director of the Mars Impact Fund, said the collaboration reflects the Fund's commitment to diversifying the global scientific pipeline.

PR Newswire
Jun 9th, 2026
Mars appoints Kemal Cetin as chief digital officer for $36B snacking business

Mars, Incorporated has appointed Kemal Cetin as Global Chief Digital & Information Officer for its $36 billion Snacking business, effective 3 August 2026. Cetin will report to Andrew Clarke, Global President of Mars Snacking, and lead the company's digital, data and technology strategy. Cetin joins from FrieslandCampina, where he served as Global Business and Digital Solutions Officer. He brings nearly 30 years of experience from global consumer goods companies including Diageo, Coca Cola Enterprises and Whirlpool. Mars Snacking houses brands including Snickers, M&M's, Pringles, Cheez-It and Pop-Tarts. Cetin will focus on advancing digital capabilities and integration following Mars's acquisition of Kellanova brands, aiming to enhance customer experiences and drive business growth through digital technologies and AI.