The Director of Strategy Development for Mars Wrigley will develop and deploy global strategies, playing a key role to support the growth and value creation journey of the company.  This highly visible position, reporting directly to the Global VP of Strategy and working in close coordination with the Mars Wrigley President and Leadership Team, will be filled by a candidate with exceptional drive and energy, who has strong analytical skills, the ability to turn data into insights, global perspective and high curiosity, highly effective verbal and written communications skills, and the organizational agility to influence.

What are we looking for?

• Bachelor's Degree and MBA required. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in management consulting and/or private equity at a top tier institution, (10+ years of experience).
• Strong conceptual skills, including flexibility in approach to problem solving, ability to push beyond the obvious to find innovative solutions, and comfort in dealing with ambiguity.
• Ability to synthesize and clearly communicate highly complex findings to focus on the critical issues and actionable opportunities
• Track record of success in dealing effectively with complex projects entailing frequent interaction with senior executives
• Excellent sense for organizational dynamics, including ability to influence without formal authority
• Ability to quickly establish rapport, credibility, trust, and respect, with peers, team members and executives
• Analytical capability- the ability to objectively solve problems through quantitative and qualitative analysis of data and information
• Business judgment- the ability to understand financial and non-financials aspects of a problem and use sound business judgment to recommend actions and decisions

What will be your key responsibilities?

• 1. Lead the strategy development that underpins our annual strategic planning process.  This entails pressure-testing region, market, and category plans to ensure sufficient external perspective, rigorous execution plans, and breakthrough thinking to ensure MW is set up to succeed in a ~3 year horizon. 

• 2. Lead and execute internal consulting projects across a myriad of critical business issues in support of our segment reinvention.  This will include working across regional and global stakeholders to define the key questions that need to be answered, develop a plan and approach to solve, and execute against the plan to deliver results.

• 3. Build the tools and processes necessary to build an internal capability in strategic problem solving. This includes developing processes and tools as need to raise organizational capabilities. 

• 4. Leverage future-back thinking and external stakeholders to bring breakthrough ideas and concepts to the MW leadership team to ensure MW is well set up to succeed over a 10+ year horizon. 

• 5. Develop and lead a small team of strategy professionals.

What can you expect from Mars?

• Work with over 130,000 like-minded 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.