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Employer:Mars

Location:London, United Kingdom

Salary:Competitive

Closing date:29 Apr 2025

Job Description:

Are you passionate about Data and Analytics (D&A) and excited about how it can completely transform the way an enterprise works? Do you have the strategic vision, technical expertise, and leadership skills to drive data-driven solutions? Do you want to work in a dynamic, fast-growing category? If so, you might be the ideal candidate for the role of Director, Data Architecture, in the Data and Analytics function for Global Pet Nutrition (PN) at Mars.

Pet Nutrition (PN) is the most vibrant category in the FMCG sector. As we work to transform this exciting category, a new program, Digital First, has been mobilized by the Mars Pet Nutrition (PN) leadership team. Digital First places pet parents at the center of all we do in Mars PN, while digitalizing a wide range of business process areas, and creating future fit capabilities to achieve ambitious targets in top line growth, earnings, and pet parent centricity. The Digital First agenda requires Digitizing at scale and requires you to demonstrate significant thought leadership, quality decision making, deep technical know-how, and an ability to navigate complex business challenges while building and leading a team of world class data and analytics practitioners.

With Digital First, PN is moving to a Product based model to create business facing digital capabilities. The Director - Data Architecture is a strategic role that oversees defining, designing, and implementing the data architecture strategy to support our success. This role is accountable for data design principles, technology expertise, and the ability to align data architecture initiatives for the multi-billion-dollar Pet Nutrition division's digital needs. Reporting to the Sr. Director- Data Foundations (Global Pet Nutrition), the person in this role will be a part of the Global PN Data foundation Leadership team. The role operates globally and partners with PN D&A leaders, PN business and digital leaders across all functions. In addition, this role will be working closely with cross-divisional and cross-segment data teams to drive synergies and leverage best practices.

What are we looking for?

  • As part of Digital First, a new role has been created to build the foundational data capabilities that will power all our analytics products and create transformational business impact for the Pet Nutrition Division. This role encompasses data architecture and enterprise data domains that support the business goals and analytics needs of the Pet Nutrition segment. This role will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including product management, data strategy and governance, engineering, data science, and business development. The role serves as part of the global digital organization focused on enabling data driven decision making. This role will also collaborate with and influence other D&A and Digital Technologies leaders across Mars to align on data standards, best practices, and emerging technologies.


What will be your key responsibilities?

  • Mars Principles:Live and exemplify the Five Principles of Mars, Inc. within self and team.
  • Develop Data Architecture Strategy:Define and implement a comprehensive data architecture strategy that supports the Pet Nutrition's business strategic priorities, enables efficient data management, scalability, and end-to-end solution architecture delivery.
  • Lead Architecture Initiatives:Provide leadership and direction to the architecture team in designing, implementing, and maintaining data architecture solutions.
  • Data Design:Drive the design of conceptual, logical, and physical data models to ensure data consistency, integrity, and reusability across the organization.
  • Enterprise data domain ownership:Collaborate with Pet Nutrition's business and Digital foundation teams to design enterprise level data domain map that meet business requirements, ensuring alignment with data and platform architecture principles.
  • Stakeholder Engagement:Collaborate with PN D&A leadership, PN product owners, and segment D&A leadership to articulate the strategic value of data and advocate for investments in data capabilities and policies.
  • Team and resource management:Hire, build, lead and manage multilocational teams covering data, architecture, data modelling, and governance throughout the development lifecycle, from ideation to ongoing optimization. Manage budget allocation.
  • Performance Monitoring:Define key performance indicators (KPIs) and implement monitoring systems for deployed data architecture principles to ensure efficient D&A operations.


What can you expect from Mars?

  • Work with over 140,000 diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles.
  • Join a purpose driven company, where we're striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
  • Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
  • An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.


This role is a project-based transformation role and has a current expected end date of '31st December 2026'.

Mars is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request.#J-18808-Ljbffr

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