Supply Business Owner

Assignment until end of 2028

Location: Preferred VEG or

Technical Hub locations: HAG, SLO, Porici, Mechelen

Functional Hub locations: POZ, Media City, Bucharest

Cluster HQ and ECE HQ SLO, HAG, VEG, Unterhaching, Barcelona, WAW, Dublin

At the heart of Mars Snacking's landmark E2E planning transformation integrating Mars and Kellanova, the Supply Business Owner is a critical senior leadership role. As the ultimate business authority for the supply planning domain, you will define and deliver the future vision for all supply planning within the new, integrated entity to build a highly agile supply chain of the future.

What will be your Key Responsibilities?

Program Leadership & Team Management

• Own the program management of the supply planning workstream. This includes ensuring all milestones and deliverables are met as committed, providing regular status updates, and proactively identifying and flagging risks.
• Lead, coach, and develop the supply planning project team, setting priorities and guiding them to realize the future-state vision.
• Act as the central point of contact for the Supply workstream, building strong relationships with regional and global Supply leadership to ensure program alignment.

Solution Design & Delivery

• Develop and recommend the future-state vision and standard processes for supply planning, integrating the 'best of both worlds' from Mars and Kellanova and benchmarking to ensure a best-in-class proposal.
• Lead the translation of business needs into detailed user stories and oversee the work within agile sprints—in partnership with the Solution Architect—from initial design through testing and final implementation.

Stakeholder Alignment & Change Management

• Prepare and present clear recommendations on process design, RACI, and system functionalities to business leaders and governance forums to facilitate effective decision-making.
• Drive alignment with cross-functional stakeholders (e.g., Demand, Finance, Logistics, commercial), ensuring the supply planning solution is seamlessly integrated into the end-to-end process.
• Champion the change program with the receiving organizations by providing expert content for training materials and clearly articulating the benefits of the new solutions to drive adoption.

What are we looking for?

• BSc/BA in Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Business, or a related field; MBA or advanced degree is highly preferred.

• 10+ years of progressive experience in supply chain management, with a significant portion in leadership roles within a global CPG/FMCG environment.

• Proven experience leading large-scale business transformation initiatives, preferably in planning or system implementation context.
• Deep, holistic expertise across end-to-end supply planning processes, including S&OP/IBP, S&OE, DRP, and inventory management.

• Demonstrated success in leading and developing teams of planning professionals.

• Experience with large-scale transformations

• Exceptional strategic thinking, with the ability to translate a high-level vision into an actionable roadmap.

• Proven ability to influence and align senior and executive-level stakeholders in a complex, matrixed organization.

• Strong familiarity with advanced planning systems (APS) such as Kinaxis, o9, E2Open, or Blue Yonder (preferred)

• Fluent in English.

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