IT Product Management

Job Description:

Job Description: Product Owner – Regional Business Sub-Domain (Snacking)

Role Purpose

Mars Snacking’s vision is to create Better Snacks for Better Days, with a clear One Demand vision at the heart of it. At the service of the One Demand Vision, the Tech-Fueled Sales (TFS) ambition is to build a human-led, digitally-powered Sales Engine with the Associate at the center. This entails harnessing AI and data to help our associates sell smarter, serve customers better, and capture more value across every channel.

The Product Owner represents the region’s business priorities for the sub-domain, aligning functional needs across markets while ensuring products support consistent global processes where appropriate and address regional requirements. The role consolidates and prioritizes regional demand, shapes the sub-domain roadmap with global and regional partners, supports regional process decisions and exceptions, and drives adoption and business outcomes across the region. In addition, the Product Owner owns the successful local deployment and ongoing evolution of specific products and tools assigned to the market, working closely with the global product team and regional partners to translate the global solution into local impact.

Reporting to: Region

Location: Region (specific location to be agreed with Regional leaders)

Travel: TBC

Direct reports: N/A

Key Responsibilities

• Regional business representation: Represent regional business priorities and requirements across markets for the sub-domain.

• Global-to-local process alignment: Align regional needs to the global process, clearly identifying where regional variation is required.

• Demand and portfolio prioritization: Consolidate, evaluate, and prioritize regional demand at portfolio level, balancing value, urgency, dependencies, and capacity.

• Roadmap and investment shaping: Partner with the Global Business Sub-Domain Lead and Regional DT Sub-Domain Lead to shape sub-domain priorities, roadmaps, and investment recommendations.

• Cross-market decision making: Resolve competing business priorities across markets and provide a single regional voice.

• Business sponsorship: Provide business sponsorship and decision-making support for regional process changes.

• Adoption and feedback: Partner with Regional Product Success to address adoption barriers and translate regional insights into future priorities.

• Leadership alignment: Engage regional functional leaders to drive alignment, readiness, and accountability for business outcomes.

• Local product ownership: Own the end-to-end deployment of assigned products and tools in the local market, from requirements validation and market readiness through launch, adoption, stabilization, and continuous improvement.

• Requirements and backlog: Act as the primary local business owner for the product, translating market needs into clear requirements and backlog priorities while protecting the integrity of the global product design.

• Cross-functional deployment: Partner closely with the global product team, regional team, Digital Technology, change, and market stakeholders to coordinate delivery, resolve dependencies, remove deployment barriers, and manage local exceptions.

• Market fit and readiness: Validate that the product is fit for the local market, including business processes, customer and channel requirements, data readiness, user experience, and relevant controls.

• Launch and product performance: Own local acceptance, launch readiness, adoption, performance tracking, and the feedback loop to the global team, ensuring product learning informs future releases and scaling.

Decision Rights

• Own regional business process decisions within globally defined guardrails.

• Own regional business priorities for the sub-domain.

• Influence global sub-domain portfolio priorities, product roadmap sequencing, and global process design.

• Support demand intake and requirements validation, business cases and cases for change, and adoption of global products in markets.

• Own local product decisions and backlog priorities within agreed global architecture, process, data, and design guardrails.

• Recommend go-live readiness for assigned tools and escalate material gaps, risks, or exceptions to the regional and global product teams.

Key Stakeholders

• Global Business Sub-Domain Lead

• Regional Product Success

• DT Sub-Domain Lead

• Change Manager

• Regional functional leaders and market stakeholders

Key Inputs and Outputs

• Inputs: Market and functional business priorities; regional demand and enhancement requests; global business process standards and guardrails; regional strategy and portfolio priorities; regulatory and market-specific requirements.

• Outputs: Prioritized regional demand portfolio; regional business process decisions and exception recommendations; recorded cross-market priority and process conflicts.

Experience & Qualifications

• Experience: Significant experience in product ownership, business process leadership, commercial transformation, or a related role within a complex regional or global organization.

• Product ownership: Demonstrated ability to translate business needs into clear product priorities, requirements, roadmaps, and investment choices, with hands-on ownership of product deployment and adoption in a market.

• Business process expertise: Strong understanding of global-to-local operating models and the ability to distinguish essential market requirements from avoidable process variation.

• Portfolio management: Experience prioritizing demand across markets and working with cross-functional business, Digital Technology, product, and change teams.

• Business acumen: Strong commercial and financial acumen, including the ability to shape business cases and connect product choices to measurable value.

• Stakeholder leadership: Excellent communication, facilitation, and influencing skills, with the confidence to resolve competing priorities and establish one regional position.

• Preferred background: Experience in CPG/FMCG and agile product delivery is preferred.

Critical Skills & Leadership Capabilities

• Strategic alignment: Creates a clear, value-led regional product direction aligned with the global sub-domain strategy.

• Decision quality: Makes transparent prioritization decisions within global guardrails and escalates exceptions with a clear business rationale.

• Organizational savvy: Navigates a matrixed organization and builds strong relationships across markets, regional functions, Global Business, DT, Product Success, and Change.

• Ensures accountability: Holds stakeholders accountable for timely inputs, decisions, readiness, adoption, and business outcomes.

• Manages complexity: Synthesizes multiple market requirements, dependencies, and constraints into a coherent regional backlog and roadmap.

• Drives results: Maintains pace and focus, resolves conflicts, and converts decisions into measurable outcomes.

Measures of Success

• Strong alignment of regional priorities to the global sub-domain strategy.

• Reduction in conflicting or duplicative market requirements.

• Adoption of global processes across the region.

• Effective resolution of regional process exceptions.

• Improved experience for associates, field sales representatives, and staff in the region.

• A clear, prioritized regional demand portfolio and disciplined cross-market decision making.

• Successful local deployment of assigned products and tools, with clear readiness, adoption, performance, and value-realization outcomes.

• Timely resolution of local product issues and a strong feedback loop into the regional and global product roadmaps.

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The base pay range for this position at commencement of employment is between the below range, however, base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including but not limited to, market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, if eligible, including variable pay & general allowances (depending on the position and employee’s work schedule). Subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable policies and plans then in effect, and depending on the position offered and the employee’s work schedule (i.e., part-time schedule), eligible employees are automatically enrolled in a 401(k) plan, as well as participate in Company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance plans for the employee and the employee’s eligible dependents, and may be eligible to take up to 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Employees will also receive the following paid-time off (which may be prorated based on start date and the employee’s work schedule): 120 hours of vacation per year, paid sick time for eligible Associates of 100% pay continuation for a maximum of 40 hours per calendar year, and 12 paid holidays throughout the calendar year that include both fixed and flexible holidays.

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